98,400 services performed by the Environmental Protection and Development Authority in Ras Al-Khaimah during 2019
The Environmental Protection and Development Authority in Ras Al Khaimah announced that it provided 98,400 services to various categories of customers, society, industrial establishments, fishermen, government and educational institutions, individuals and others classified on 68 types of services during 2019, after the completion of the process of merging services based on 23 competences of the authority according to Decree No. 2 of 2007 In addition to its competence to regulate the fishing profession according to Decree No. 11 of 2015. The Authority’s vision revolves around the protection of the environment and the sustainability of its resources. Its mission seeks innovation and excellence in the control and awareness methods and the preparation of legislation based on specialized research programs that contribute to the protection of the environment and natural resources.Dr. Seif Mohamed Al-Ghais, Director General of the Authority, said that the Authority continues to delight customers by providing unprecedented facilities and simplify procedures and listen to their proposals through periodic meetings and continuous meetings across the Authority’s councils, which numbered 28 during 2019. Al-Ghais attributed the services accomplished by the Authority with high quality and highest standards and degrees of happiness for customers during the year 2019 to the interest of His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah in environmental work and his deep belief in the need for Ras Al Khaimah to become a sustainable emirate alongside the constant pursuit by His Highness Sheikh Muhammad bin Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Crown Prince of Ras Al-Khaimah, Chairman of the Executive Council, who is sparing no effort to follow closely the extent of compliance of industrial and professional establishments with environmental requirements. Al-Ghais stated that the authority is keen to provide facilities and services aimed at making its customers happy by switching to electronic and smart services, noting that the authority issued, renewed and amended 3569 environmental permits for industrial and professional establishments through the electronic licensing system and smart applications for the authority and without the need to visit the authority’s headquarters to facilitate the investors and a guarantee to achieve ease Doing business and contributing to enhancing the competitiveness of the emirate, which contributed to raising the level of happiness of the Authority’s customers during 2019 to 97.3%. In the interest of the authority to provide smart and advanced services that keep pace with the development witnessed by the emirate and in order to achieve the services and requirements to keep pace with the marked excellence and the place that the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah reached, the authority provided 35 services for the fast track, which is one of the services launched by the authority during 2018 as it is one of the services Submission to renew the environmental license within an hour or less in return for specific fees, as a matter of the Authority’s endeavor to provide all the facilities and needs of its customers and to develop its services to become smart, inexpensive, and easy and simple steps. n the topic of air quality, which is considered one of the main issues on the national agenda for the UAE 2021 vision in the United Arab Emirates, as the agenda aims to raise the air quality rate from its current level to 90% by 2021 and to achieve this goal, the authority works with its partners in the government and private sectors to develop efforts National by various means and methods as the authority works to provide this service through fixed and mobile stations to measure air quality in various regions in the emirate The number of services to measure air quality with different components of air pollutant gases has reached 51,304 services extracted from a number of 226 reports on the quality of air. Al-Ghais added that during 2019 the authority issued and renewed 90 hunting licenses for picnic and 346 licenses for artisanal fishing and that the authority issued 425 no-objection certificates for licensing tanks, 1177 no-objection certificates for importing chemicals, 125 no-objection certificates for the export of chemicals and 15 no-objection certificates to transport used oils from ports Ras Al-Khaimah during the year 2019. Within the framework of enhancing strategic partnerships, the Environmental Protection and Development Authority in Ras Al Khaimah concluded four partnership agreements where a partnership agreement was signed with the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment to enhance environmental cooperation and exchange information on emissions from industrial facilities and environmental impacts resulting from economic activities in addition to building technical capabilities Specialized in the areas of strategic environmental planning and exchange of information on climate change and joint work between the two parties in the field of climate change, biological diversity and environmental awareness. The commission also signed an agreement with the International Fund for Animal Welfare “Evo” to enhance the authority of the authority in protecting the environment and its components and to promote joint efforts and exchange of knowledge and extensive and specialized expertise on both sides in many key areas related to environmental activities. Under this agreement, the two parties will use the best information The available scientific studies while ensuring the preservation of the national identity and taking into account the religious and cultural dimension when adopting or supporting any relevant educational activities. In addition, the authority has updated the strategic partnership agreement with the Ras Al Khaimah Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the aim of strengthening cooperation and achieving integration in the partnership relationship between the two sides in the environmental and commercial fields that serve both parties as the two parties agreed to cooperate in the areas of environmental awareness and smart applications, cooperation and participation in community initiatives For the two parties and the processes of institutional development and exchange of experiences in common areas. The authority also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Municipal Department in Ras Al Khaimah on the spatial data infrastructure project for the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, and this was during the launch of the project strategy, which aims to facilitate the exchange of geospatial data between government agencies that serve decision-makers in all areas of the emirate. The authority seeks to launch environmental awareness-raising initiatives that enhance the awareness-raising role of the authority in addition to contributing to preparing a generation that contributes to protecting the environment and instilling positive environmental behavior and activating the role of different groups of society in creating a sustainable healthy environment and highlighting private contributions to preserving the environment where the authority implemented 196 initiatives Community, lecture and effective environmental awareness in various parts of the emirate and for different groups of society where the total number of beneficiaries of environmental activities reached 12981 beneficiaries during 2019 and through the application of Estidama 341 new users benefited from the services of this innovative application during 2019 to reach A total of 4118 users have benefited from this application since its launch, and the authority has also provided an awareness service through text messages to 16,746 beneficiaries. The Authority also, for the purposes of follow-up and monitoring, and to achieve the objectives of a remote environmental monitoring initiative, launched a party system indicator board and environmental indicators board during 2019 and linked all of these systems to fixed and mobile monitoring rooms, and the remote environmental monitoring system is one of the main strategic projects that the authority has accomplished within the framework of its strategic plan 2017 -2020 with the aim of raising the level of quality control processes and activities that have an impact on the sustainable environment, whether industrial activities or practices or human or natural phenomena in various environmental systems as well as reducing the cost of services related to irrigation Such as environmental permit and assessment of environmental Abh studies associated with environmental impact assessment and others. – WAM : Mohammed Al Sharji / Redha Abdulnoor
