The Supreme Council of the Environment

The Higher Council for the Environment is the ultimate authority that represents the Environmental Public Authority, and it has the right to make decisions what it deems necessary to protect the country's territory from pollution, regardless of its source. The Supreme Council for the Environment shall be formed under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister or the First Deputy Prime Minister and membership of a number of ministers chosen by the President of the Supreme Council. The General Director of the Authority shall be a member of the Council and a rapporteur for it. Decree for a period of four years renewable for another similar period, and the decree issued for appointing them to reward them, and the council issues an internal regulation that regulates the procedures of its work and how to issue its decisions. The council works within the framework of the government’s general policy to take everything that would protect the country's territory N pollution whatever the exporter and the achievement of the objectives set forth in the law.

Specializations of the council:

• Drawing up the general policy for environmental protection in the country.
• Approving the national plans for environmental protection and emergency plans to face environmental disasters.
• Following up on the implementation of all provisions of this law by all state agencies, and settling any contradictions or conflicts in competencies that may obstacle the achievement of the policies, goals, and provisions that contained therein.
• Approving the Authority's annual budget.
• Selection of two representatives from non-governmental organizations concerned with environmental affairs, for membership council management.
• Approving the internal regulations of the council management that based on the proposal of the council management.
• Approving the Authority's annual work plan and periodic review and evaluation thereof.
• Follow up the environmental situation and work to improve the quality of the environment and environmental management in the country.
• Review and approve the annual report on the environmental performance of state institutions, and follow up and correct the deficiencies of the state institutions which they are mentioned.
• Approving the financial regulations for salaries and payments for the employees of the Authority.
• Approving the organization body of the Authority.
• Approving the formation of the permanent support committees and approving the balances which are related to it.
• Imposing the legal sanctions, the on companies, establishments and entities that violates the provisions of the Environmental Protection Law and environmental requirements and standards that mentioned in the executive regulations.
• Authorize the competent ministers to implement the provisions of the Environmental Protection Law and the regulations and decisions implementing it or whoever these ministers authorize to delegate the employees necessary to do so, and give them the status of judicial seizure to prove violations of its provisions in accordance with the texts of the articles related to their specialties.
• Forming the board of directors of Environment Public Authority in accordance to the law.
• Forming the board of directors of the Environmental Protection fund and issuing the internal regulations.
• Viewing the annual report on the activities of the Environmental Protection fund.
• Approval of the construction or expansion of new waste landfills.
• Approving a plan to manage, evaluate, treat and recover all landfills in the country.
• Define the protected areas in Kuwait, define their geographical borders, classify and organize them, and how to manage and control them.
• Approval of the deduction of part of the approved reserves in the country, after presenting the authority with the reasons for that.
• Determine the entities that undertake the management of natural reserves in the state’s territory, as well as identify the bodies entrusted with the tasks of supervising some of the protected areas or fences.
• Approval of projects that fall within the scope of Kuwait bay or its coasts.
• Issuing the national plan for managing the environmental situation in Kuwait bay and updating it every ten years.
• Identify the authorities concerned with preparing environmental strategies, approving them, and following up on the annual stages of implementation.
• Defining the fields and sectors of the environmental police work in the Ministry of Interior and reviewing the annual report of its work.
• Approving the national plan for environmental data management.
• Viewing emergency plans and natural risk management plans.
• Determine the entities that are concerned with establishing specialized environmental departments to ensure follow-up and application of environmental laws within their scope of work.
• Appointing observers from the Authority’s employees or from outside it in the state’s institutions to monitor the environmental performance therein and determining the time period and tasks specified for their work and reward them.
• Identify the government agency concerned with the establishment of the Museum of natural history of Kuwait, as well as the authority concerned with its management.
• Approval of the national program for integrated waste management.
• Access to periodic reports on the implementation of the program, projects to rehabilitate the environment.

The Board of Directors of the Environmental Protection Fund

The board of directors of the environmental protection fund is the dominant authority for the affairs of the Environmental Protection Fund, its administration and the development and implementation of its policy, and it has the power to make decisions what it deems necessary to achieve the purposes for which the fund was established.

Tasks and Specializations:

• Drawing up the fund's work policy, organizing and supervising its administrative, technical and financial work and monitoring its implementation.
• Setting the conditions that must be met in the requests for financial support submitted to the fund by the authorities and projects.
• Establishing projects aimed at protecting the environment and its sources and maintaining its natural balance.
• Support efforts to contain disasters and environmental crises.
• Establishing rehabilitation projects for the damaged sites in the country.
• Encouraging a shift towards a green economy and sustainable development.
• Supporting investment in environmental science and technology and developing national cadres to work in this field.
• Supporting investment in the environmental education sector and establishing associated educational and awareness centers in the environmental fields.
• Supporting special environmental studies and research related to the Fund's projects.
• Supporting official environmental civil society organizations and working to encourage the participation of the rest of the community’s institutions operating in non-environmental fields, so that they can push towards participation in environmental protection, each according to its specialization.
• Agree to provide support for projects that meet the conditions.
• Study reports related to the implementation of projects financed by the Fund and follow up on them.
• Agreeing to pay the remuneration of the committees formed by the Council.

Environmental Protection Fund Office

Tasks and Specializations:

• Organize the agenda of the Board of Directors and the dates of its sessions and communicate them to the members.
• Print the minutes of the sessions, notify the relevant authorities of the decisions taken and follow up on their implementation.
• Follow up the implementation of projects supported or adopted by the Fund or to which a party is a party and prepare the necessary contracts for them.
• Follow up the administrative matters of the Fund's employees.
• Preparing a database for the activities of the Fund.
• Coordination and classification of the information needed by the Fund's Board Chairman and members, organizing its circulation and archiving, and coordinating this with the competent authorities inside and outside the authority.
• Organizing and following up the financial and accounting matters of the fund in accordance with the financial and accounting laws and instructions and following them up.
• Create financial records and documents of exchange, record, arrest and audit.
• Take the necessary measures to provide the needs of the office of the Environmental Protection Fund, including equipment, equipment, furniture, and succession, and the periodic and emergency maintenance needed in coordination with the relevant departments.
• Follow up on all decisions issued by the Board of Directors of the Environmental Protection Fund.
• Preparing and following up the draft regulations and procedures necessary to implement the provisions of the Environmental Protection Law in the field of the fund.
• Study the proposed benefits granted to the investor and the national private sector and submit them to the Chairman of the Board of Directors.
• Follow-up and evaluation of the work of subordinates and their accomplishments and work to develop it and develop their capabilities.
• Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on the activities and achievements of the office compared to the plan in place and submitting it to the President of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Protection Fund - General Manager.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the operational budget of the office and present it to the President of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Protection Fund - General Manager.

Studies & Applications Studies Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Organizing, receiving, delivering, recording and keeping all requests submitted to the Environmental Protection Fund.
• Establish a mechanism for registering applications.
• Study the submitted applications and ensure that the minimum requirements approved by the Board of Directors are met.
• Doing research, studies and developing perceptions about developing the fund's financial resources.
• Coordination between the authority and the various bodies locally and internationally regarding the fund's work.
• Coordination with the concerned authorities to prepare reports on the authorities and the applicants.
• Keeping, organizing and following up the dates and minutes of the Chairman’s meetings.
• Organizing the reception of visitors and auditors to the Chairman of the Board of Directors and arranging the dates of their interviews in coordination with the concerned departments and sections.
• Carry out printing work, prepare reports, notes, and letters of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and save and record the information that the General Manager Office needs by using a computer.
• Facilitating the communication and coordination process between the various departments and divisions of the Authority to ensure the flow of information and the proper functioning of the work.
• Maintaining a general record of the topics and reports received and issued by the department for reference at the time of need.
• Express an opinion on all matters related to the work of the Fund and presented to it.
• Responding to inquiries from various parties regarding requests and offers made.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Accounts & Expenditure Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Apply financial instructions related to exchange and accounts.
• Receiving transactions from the different units, reviewing them and ensuring the availability of financial credits.
• Issuing exchange and registration forms with the amounts due and following up their transfer to beneficiaries.
• Receive debit bank notices that confirm the completion of bank transfers and make accounting entries in coordination with the concerned units.
• Prepare budget estimates of expenditures.
• Follow-up on the disbursement of contract payments with beneficiaries.
• Prepare registration forms for financial operations that require settlements, as well as making statutory restrictions.
• Carrying out periodic checks of trusts, covenants, current accounts, and statutory accounts, and working to implement them up-to-date.
• Evaluating the warehouse assets, conducting its annual inventory operations, preparing the required reports in this regard, and submitting them to the director of the department.
• Characterization, coding and arrangement of materials in warehouses according to the approved classification and the opening of items cards.
• Prepare bank settlement notes and make accounting entries in coordination with revenue and expense units.
• Receiving bank guarantees and documentary credits, maintaining and following them renewing or canceling them, and preparing statutory restrictions in this regard.
• Conducting the periodic matching process between the records and automated statements with the Ministry of Finance.
• Collect the revenues received by the Fund and prove them with forms.
• Preparing periodic reports, closing accounts, explanatory forms and explanatory note.
• Preparing the necessary restrictions to close the accounts of the financial year.
• Preparing contracts dispensing forms after coordination and taking the necessary approvals.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the Director of the Environmental Protection Fund office.
• Preparing the completion reports on the department's activity and submitting it to the Director of the Environmental Protection Fund office.

Follow-up & Evaluation Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing and drafting contracts and protocols concluded by the Fund in order to perform its tasks.
• Evaluating the programs and projects implemented by the Environmental Protection Fund, knowing their effects and recommending what is necessary in light of the follow-up results.
• Evaluating the procedures followed in drawing or formulating the Fund's programs and projects.
• Develop proposals and studies on annual environmental priorities.
• Reviewing, examining and evaluating the programs and projects related to the fund in light of the general policy, identifying priorities and the extent to which the desired goals are achieved.
• Coordination and cooperation with the various bodies to ensure that the above are fully implemented.
• Preparing periodic reports on the results of the audit and auditing of the department's activities, indicating any obstacles that might obstacles the work and proposing the appropriate solutions.
• Ensuring the effectiveness of the controls taken, the standards set and the sound implementation of the business and programs.
• Coordination with the competent authorities in responding to any questions, inquiries or data received from various supervisory authorities regarding the work of the Environmental Protection Fund.
• Prepare periodic reports on the results of the audit and auditing of programs and projects and present them to the Director of the Environmental Protection Fund office, stating any obstacles or difficulties that may hinder work and suggesting appropriate solutions for them.
• Any other duties assigned to the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the department's work and submitting them to the director of the department.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the department manager.

Board of Directors of the EPA

The Council Management of the Public Authority for the Environment is the dominant authority for its affairs, the conduct of its affairs, its administration, and the implementation of the general policy that it follows. A decision shall be issued by the Upper Council except on forming the council management for the authority management for period of four years renewable for similar for one period. , Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Information, Ministry of Oil, Ministry of Education, Kuwait Municipality, Public Authority for Industry, Kuwait University, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (provided that his rank is not less than the rank of Assistant Undersecretary chosen by the concerned minister) , This is in addition to two representatives from the public interest societies concerned with the environment. The council is responsible for the following:

• Supervising the implementation of the policies set by the Higher Council for the Environment.
• To propose national plans for environmental protection and emergency plans to confront environmental disasters and supervise their implementation after their approval by the Higher Council.
• Preparing the organizational structure of the authority, indicating the necessary equipment for it and defining its terms of reference.
• Preparing the internal regulations of the Board of Directors, to include in particular the following:
  • Defining the functions of the General Manager and his deputies.
  • Organizing the work of the Board of Directors, and how to issue its decisions, rules and procedures for the committees and working groups meetings that constitute the Authority.
  • Determine the remunerations of the members of the Board of Directors, deputy general manager, members of committees, work teams, experts and consultants.
• Issuing the internal regulations of the authority, including the administrative regulations, regulations for appointing the employees of the authority, their promotions and remunerations, and what they are granted in kind or cash benefits and disciplinary penalties imposed on them and the termination of their services, without prejudice to the provisions of Articles of the Civil Service Law. While there was no provision for it in its rules of procedure.
• Approving the Authority's annual budget project.
• Propose bills and decrees related to the environment.
• Proposing the formation of permanent assistant committees and adopting their recommendations. The council may delegate the general manager or any of its committees in some of its specialties.
• Setting schedules of fees and charges that the Authority collects for the services it provides.
• Agree to develop, update and amend executive standards, requirements and environmental regulations.
• Review and approve the penalties prescribed for violators mentioned in the Environmental Protection Law, and adopt reconciliation regulations for environmental violations.
• Approval of all regulations and decisions necessary to implement the Environmental Protection Law, which is concerned with the issuance of the General Manager and its modifications.
• Agreeing to accept the benefits and donations provided by the national and foreign authorities for the purposes of protecting the environment and developing it, and it will be disbursed for the same purposes for which it was granted.
• Seeing on the annual report to develop, implement and update the national plan for the disposal of ozone-depleting substances.

Secretariat of Councils

Tasks and Specializations:

• Receive all reports and notes on the topics to be presented to the Higher Council of the Environment and the authority’s Board of Directors.
• Preparing agendas for the meetings of the Supreme Council for the Environment and the Board of Directors and sending them after their approval with the attachments to the members of the councils in accordance with the provisions of the internal regulations.
• The proposals are and requests of councilors are received and presented them to the Chairman of the Environment Public Authority and the decision of the Higher Council of the Environment.
• Preparing the minutes of the meetings of the Higher Council of the Environment, the Board of Directors and the committees and work teams emanating from them, drafting decisions and recommendations issued by them, and then taking the necessary measures in this regard.
• Keeping the minutes of the committees and work teams with special records and keeping a record that includes the special topics, minutes of meetings, decisions and recommendations after they are classified in suitable way.
• Carry out the necessary coordination between the office of His Excellency the President of the Higher Council of the Environment and the Chairman of the Board of Directors - the Director General to ensure the facilitation of the communication process, presentation of issues, and taking the decisions in appropriate way.
• Prepare periodic and annual reports on the work of the Higher Council of the Environment and the Board of Directors and its activities and supervise the distribution processes to the related authorities in accordance with the directions of the General Manager.
• Preparing and following up the statements of remunerations for members of the councils and committees emanating from them.
• Preparing periodic reports on the work of the committees emanating from the Higher Council and the Board of Directors, presenting them for discussion to both chambers, and submitting the recommendations emanating to the Chairman and General Manager.
• Follow up on all decisions issued by the National Assembly and coordinate with the Environmental Committee in the National Assembly.
• Preparing follow-up reports and responding to the inquiries of members of the National Assembly and their parliamentary proposals, in coordination with the concerned departments and the office of His Excellency the President of the Higher Council of Environment and the President of the Board of Directors - the General Manager.
• Preparing periodic reports on the accomplishments of the council secretariat, compared to the set plan
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operational budget for the secretariat and present it to the senior management.
• Carrying out similar tasks assigned by His Excellency the President of the Higher Council of Environment and Chairman of the Board of Directors - General Manager.

Director General Office

The Office of the General Manager has been concerned in general with performing all the tasks and responsibilities necessary for managing and managing the affairs of the authority, organizing the workflow in a way that ensures regularity and good performance in all its sectors, and representing the authority before the judiciary and in its relations with others, all in accordance with the provisions of the law and applicable and applicable regulations and regulations. It specializes in particular with the following:

• Issuing the necessary regulations and decisions after the approval of the Board of Directors to implement the provisions of the Environmental Protection Law, except for Chapter One of Chapter Four thereof.
• Effective participation with all sectors of the authority in setting its main goals and identifying sub-goals and distributing them to the various sectors and departments, as well as setting work plans and implementation programs and adopting them in a way that achieves the goals specified therein.
• Setting the organizational structure of the authority in preparation for submitting it to the board of directors for approval, and then to the Supreme Council for Accreditation.
• Prepare the annual budget for the authority in preparation for submission to the Board of Directors for approval, and then to the Higher Council for approval.
• Implementing and following up on the implementation of decisions issued by the authority, the board of directors, and the Supreme Council.
• Requesting any data, information and documents it deems necessary from any public or private body that engages in an activity that pollutes the environment, and has the right to authorize whom it deems necessary in this regard.
• Issuing all the necessary decisions regarding appointment (in the ranks of public jobs or one of the contracts), transfer, assignment, promotion and termination of employee services and other relevant administrative and financial decisions, within the framework of the provisions of the laws, decisions, regulations and regulations established.
• Issuing the necessary decisions regarding the identification of employees from the authority or other relevant administrative authorities who are required to carry out the inspections required by the implementation of the law and the regulations and decisions implementing it except for Chapter One of Chapter Four thereof and to establish what crimes occur in violation of its provisions, and these employees have the status of judicial control..
• Issue the necessary decisions regarding the deletion or addition of any ozone-depleting substances in accordance with the provisions of international agreements and related protocols in this regard.
• Issuing the necessary decisions regarding the prohibition of trafficking in endangered fungal organisms or any part thereof or their products mentioned in the relevant international agreements, after coordination with the competent authorities in the country.
• Assigning employees to perform tasks or tasks related to the authority inside or outside the country, and the period of assignment is considered official working days.
• Authorization to authorize the employee to perform work for others with or without pay or compensation, even in non-official working hours.
• Authorize the employee's written permission to provide or publish any information about works that should be kept confidential in nature or according to special instructions.
• Establishing conditions and procedures for proving the validity of the subject of the probationary period in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Approval of granting employee all kinds of vacations (whether with salary, half salary, or no salary).
• Signing contracts concluded by the Ministry with other parties, checks issued by the authority, transfers and correspondence related to bank guarantees and opening documentary credits.
• Referral to investigate violations committed by the authority's employees and to impose appropriate penalties, in accordance with the regulations and rules in force in this regard.
• Granting the violator, the conditions and standards stipulated in the Environmental Protection Law or its executive regulations - except for the first chapter of Chapter Four - a period not exceeding thirty (30) days to correct its violation and on the condition that this does not result in serious damage.
• Implementing and following up on the implementation of all the provisions of international and regional environmental agreements and fulfilling all of their obligations.
• Study and evaluate the administrative and organizational conditions in the authority and prepare the appropriate plans for development in a manner that achieves the efficiency and effectiveness of the administrative performance of the authority.
• Forming one or more staff affairs committees and defining their terms of reference.
• Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on the authority’s activities, achievements and results of its work, to be submitted to the authority’s board of directors, including suggestions and recommendations for developing the authority’s work systems and programs and facing obstacles and problems that may interfere with the workflow.

Auditing and Inspection Office

Tasks and Specializations:

• Carrying out administrative and financial audits related to the Authority's activities.
• Ensuring the commitment of all departments of the authority to implement the decisions, regulations and circulars issued by the authority and following up the implementation of the decisions of the Council of Ministers, the Civil Service Council, the Civil Service Bureau and the relevant Ministry of Finance.
• Review the procedures for implementing the Authority's main financial and administrative activities, and examine and evaluate them in light of the approved financial and administrative policies.
• Follow up on preparing the reports and notes of the commission related to responding to the reports and observations of the various oversight bodies in the country and expressing an opinion thereon.
• Coordination and cooperation with various departments to ensure that the above statement is fully implemented.
• Examining records and documents of all kinds and analyzing their data.
• Developing proposals, conceptions and systems for control and inspection of all administrative, technical and executive body work.
• Prepare periodic reports on the results of the administrative and financial review and audits of the Authority's activities and present them to the officials, stating any obstacles or difficulties that may hinder the work and propose appropriate solutions for them.
• Any other tasks assigned to it.
• Submit periodic reports to the General Manager on auditing and following up on performance.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the office and present it to the general manager.

Technical Office

Tasks and Specializations:

• Provide legal, administrative and technical support to the leadership.
• Contribute to setting general policies, strategies, plans and various programs appropriate for the commission's work and achieving its goal.
• Study laws and regulations related to the environment and make any proposals related to its development.
• Review all documents, documents and data related to the office.
• Preparing studies of an analytical and environmental nature for the purpose of planning, follow-up and decision-making.
• Prepare and participate in research, studies and working papers that the general manager participates in various occasions and formulate them in the light of every occasion or conference.
• Analyze statistics and studies related to the authority’s work in all fields and present the proposed recommendations.
• Reviewing status and environmental reports and submitting them to the General Manager.
• Review the technical performance evaluation of the organizational units concerned with monitoring and protection matters.
• Reviewing the reports of the relevant departments addressed to the General Manager and expressing an opinion thereon.
• Providing a complete base of laws, decisions, regulations and circulars required by the commission’s work and organizing it in files so that it is easy to refer to it when needed.
• Preparing reports to clarify the executive position of the workflow in the sector and follow up on the time program.
• Setting phased plans for developing the Authority's work methods and procedures and setting time priorities for implementation.
• To express an opinion on the issues that hinder the working procedures of the Authority.
• Collecting data related to work procedures, converting them into information and developing scenarios to optimize their use.
• Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on the activities and achievements of the office in comparison to the plan established and submitting it to the general manager.
• Prepare the annual work plan and operational budget for the office and present it to the general manager.

Legal Affairs Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• To participate in preparing and drafting the regulations and regulations issued by the authority in the field of environmental affairs, upon the request of the general manager.
• Submitting appropriate proposals for the proper functioning of the work, in coordination with the departments and departments concerned with the authority or relevant external bodies.
• Preparing administrative decisions within the limits of powers and presenting them to the Director General for approval.
• Management affairs and issuing decisions within the limits of the powers vested in the job.
• Preparing decisions on the results of investigations within the limits of powers and submitting them to the Director General for approval.
• Carrying out administrative investigations in matters referred by the General Manager or whoever is authorized to do so in relation to violations issued by the authority’s employees or any other matter of the authority’s affairs with the proposal of appropriate administrative sanctions in these investigations, in accordance with the provisions of the laws, decisions and regulations in forcePreparing decisions on the results of investigations within the limits of powers and submitting them to the Director General for approval.
• Carrying out cases that the commission is a party to, and taking judicial procedures to fulfill the rights of the body from others.
• Providing legal opinion regarding what is referred to it regarding environmental violations, administrative investigations, contracts, and all legal issues to which the Authority is a party or directly related to its work.
• Preparing studies and legal notes aimed at ensuring the proper functioning of work and submitting appropriate suggestions and recommendations.
• Preparing the necessary bills to protect and preserve the environment in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Prepare the necessary decisions regarding granting the status of judicial seizure to the Authority’s employees or other competent authorities, and inform it to the concerned authorities.
• Preparing, reviewing and auditing the conditions of tenders, auctions and practices that are taken by the authority prior to offering, taking what is necessary towards offering it, preparing its contracts and coordinating on them with the concerned authorities.
• Study and search all documents and documents pertaining to the Authority's contract projects, review their formulation and express a legal opinion on them.
• Study the availability of the requirements determined by the Central Tenders Committee when assigning contracts with contractors.
• Reviewing the legal aspects of environmental agreements and treaties to which the State of Kuwait is a party or to be signed, in coordination with the concerned departments and expressing a legal opinion thereon.
• Expressing an opinion on legal issues for all sectors of the authority, including those related to the stages of concluding contracts or the stages of implementing them and the associated right of transfers and bank guarantees and the release of the guarantor of reservations and other matters.
• Reviewing the draft contracts and the attached declarations in coordination with the Financial Affairs Department.
• Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on the administration's activities and accomplishments compared to the plan established and submitting it to the general manager.
• Prepare the annual work plan and operational budget for the department and present it to the general manager.

Investigations & Cases Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Follow up on all issues to which the authority is a party and prepare defense memoranda and supporting documents in coordination with all concerned sectors, as well as attend public prosecution sessions and expert sessions related to these cases.
• Preparing decisions within the limits of powers and submitting them to the higher management for approval.
• Coordination with the legal advice and legislation in following up all judicial disputes to which the commission is a party.
• Follow up the procedures for implementing the judgments issued in favor of or against the commission, coordinating with all sectors to expedite implementation and preparing a periodic report with all measures taken in this regard.
• Take all measures related to reservations and transfers of rights and follow up on cases related thereto before the competent courts.
• Follow up on judicial arbitration procedures, including nominating arbitrators, preparing the defense of the commission, preparing arbitration stipulations and analyzing claims in coordination with the Legal Advice and Legislative Administration.
• Take procedures to challenge judgments that the Commission deems appealing, including preparing appeals newspapers and questioning the implementation of judgments if it has a right.
• Carrying out administrative investigations in matters referred by the General Manager or whoever is authorized to do so in relation to violations issued by the authority’s employees or any other matter of the authority’s affairs with the proposal of appropriate administrative sanctions in these investigations, in accordance with the provisions of the laws, decisions and regulations in force.
• Prepare the necessary decisions regarding granting the status of the judicial seizure to the Authority’s employees or other competent authorities, and informing him of those necessary to implement his effects.
• Holding legal sessions and forums for recent law graduates with the knowledge of management.
• Preparing lists of experts and technicians in the areas of claims, settlements, and arbitrations to facilitate the process of selecting the panel’s arbitrators and making use of them to provide advice before resorting to court or arbitration.
• Preparing studies and legal notes aimed at ensuring the proper progress of work and submitting appropriate suggestions and recommendations.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing annual periodic reports on the activities of the department, its achievements and the results of its work, to be submitted to the Director of the Legal Affairs Department.

Tenders & Contracts Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing, reviewing and auditing the conditions of tenders, auctions and practices that are taken by the authority prior to offering, and taking what is necessary towards offering it, preparing its contracts and coordinating on them with the concerned authorities.
• Study, formulate, and follow up on the relevant contract projects in the consulting houses offices in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Study and research all documents and documents related to the Authority's contract projects and review their formulation.
• Preparing notes and reports on the follow-up to the implementation of the authority’s contracts and recommending what is necessary in light of the follow-up results.
• Study the assignments and works that the authority entrusts to contractors through public tenders and check the availability of the conditions specified by the Central Tenders Committee when making these assignments.
• Examine the assignments that the authority entrusts to contractors or consultants through contracts concluded by the authority with others through consulting houses offices in cases where the authority is authorized to do so from the Ministry of Finance.
• Representing the commission in attending meetings held in Legal Advice and Legislation Department on contract projects.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing annual periodic reports on the activities of the department, its achievements and the results of its work, to be submitted to the department director.

Fatwa & Legal Advice Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing administrative decisions projects within the limits of the powers vested in them.
• To express an opinion on the legal issues referred to it by the concerned authorities.
• Preparing responses to questions that arise in application of the laws and regulations of these entities in cooperation with the Legal Advice and Legislative Administration.
• Examining the bills proposed by the various departments in the authority or referred by external parties.
• Examining the complaints and complaints referred by the General Manager.
• Viewing and studying all laws and decrees issued in the country related to the environment, directly or indirectly.
• Consolidating opinion on issues in which there is a difference of opinion within the commission, in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Expressing an opinion on draft laws and regulations related to the work of the authority and in which the opinion of the body is requested.
• Preparing legal research and studies related to the authority’s work.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing annual periodic reports on the activities of the department, its achievements and the results of its work, to be submitted to the director of the department.

Environmental Compliance Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Conducting training courses for judicial officers and environmental monitors inside and outside the authority.
• Follow-up to the results of granting the judicial seizure from issuing the identities of the judicial seizure and following up their validity.
• Preparing programs and time plans for the rehabilitation of judicial officers and environmental monitors.
• Reviewing the seizure records and the incoming notifications and ensuring their conformity with the articles of the Environmental Protection Law and its executive regulations.
• Working to overcome all obstacles and difficulties facing them in work.
• Evaluating the work of judicial officers in light of compliance with the law and regulations and compliance with procedures.
• Strengthening cooperation with relevant local, regional and international institutions in relation to environmental judicial officers.
• Prepare reports containing the quality of deviations in the application and suggest appropriate solutions.
• Responding to the inquiries of the violating party and clarifying the procedures and consequences for the violation.
• Communicating with whistle-blowers and violators to complete data and documents in preparation for taking action.
• Take the necessary procedures for violations and notifications either by accepting the request for conciliation or referring to the prosecution or presenting it to the permanent committee to decide on environmental violations.
• Coordination with the various authorities to complete the post-referral procedures.
• Raising the names of the candidates to give them the status of the judicial seizure.
• Coordination with the various authorities in proposing and approving seizure minutes.
• Provide support to judicial officers and environmental monitors and respond to their inquiries.
• Monitor repeated violations and suggest appropriate means to remedy them.
• Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on the administration's activities and accomplishments compared to the plan established and submitting it to the general manager.
• Prepare the annual work plan and operational budget for the department and present it to the general manager.

Judicial Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Setting proposals for violations record minutes.
• Training courses for judicial officers, inside and outside the authority.
• Issuing judicial identities, handing them over to them and monitoring their validity.
• Submit and receive violations books and check them.
• Follow-up to the covenant on judicial officers.
• Receiving violations from different authorities, verifying all their attachments and recording them electronically.
• Entering the violations data on the electronic system.
• Coordination with the competent authorities in involving judicial officers trained in field visits.
• Coordination with the concerned authorities to attend the representatives of the investigation body.
• List the names of the candidates to give them the status of the judicial seizure inside and outside the authority.
• Evaluating the performance of judicial officers through the number and type of violations committed in addition to procedural errors.
• Submit the notes and intakes on the work of the judicial officers to the director of the department to take the necessary measures and present them to the general manager.
• Qualifying judicial officers and environmental monitors by holding seminars and courses and working to overcome the difficulties they face in coordination with other parties.
• Receiving judicial officers and responding to their inquiries regarding the judicial seizure.
• To propose plans for training judicial officers and environmental monitors, developing the performance of the department's employees, and following up on their implementation.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing annual periodic reports on the activities of the department, its accomplishments and the results of its work, to be submitted to the director of the department.

Complaints & Environmental Violations Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Study and audit the extent to which the terms of the violation are identical.
• Evidence of removal of the violation terms to complete the reconciliation procedures.
• Communicating with whistle-blowers and violators to complete procedures to take necessary actions.
• Coordination with the violators to complete the reconciliation procedures after taking the necessary measures.
• Referring violations that do not meet the requirements to the concerned authority to complete the procedures.
• Follow up on developments related to violations after referring them to the competent authority.
• Submit the violations for which some observations were observed, or a request for reconsideration to the Standing Committee for Resolution of Environmental Violations.
• Preparing a periodic report on the number of violations, and the measures taken.
• Study the obstacles and problems affecting work and propose appropriate solutions to them.
• Responding to inquiries related to environmental violations and the procedures for reconciling violations.
• Coordination with the competent authorities after referring the violation.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing annual periodic reports on the activities of the department, its achievements and the results of its work, to be submitted to the department director.

International Relations Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Study the international agreements and protocols in which the authority is involved, and present recommendations to the general manager.
• Coordination with international and regional organizations and proposing dealing frameworks to achieve cooperation and integration in environmental issues.
• Coordination of the process of the participation of the Commission’s representatives in meetings, conferences and symposia related to international and regional agreements and treaties in the field of the environment, following up the reports of the participants in these meetings and submitting its report to senior management.
• Receive all international reports and studies on the environment and refer them to the competent authorities within the authority to express an opinion in preparation for submitting recommendations to the higher departments.
• Study and examine the plans of international and regional organizations in dealing with environmental issues, and determine how to benefit from these plans in developing the authority's plans.
• Cooperating with international organizations and submitting proposals to them regarding the development of international environmental activities and processes.
• Maintaining a list of all international environmental organizations and all organizations working in the environmental field, and maintaining cooperation relations with them.
• Collect and analyze data on international organizations related to environmental activities, and suggest areas for cooperation with them.
• To suggest the extent of the need to form national committees to study and implement agreements, follow up on the work of these committees, and prepare periodic reports on them.
• Coordination with Arab and foreign embassies to implement activities related to bilateral agreements, environmental, regional and international cooperation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Preparing and preparing for signing agreements and protocols between the State of Kuwait and international organizations and bodies in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Coordination with international bodies and organizations to take advantage of the technical and financing services and expertise in these organizations.
• Study the proposed agreements, identify the relevant local authorities, and coordinate with them on the terms of these agreements, and determine the need to form a committee to evaluate these agreements and the extent of benefiting from joining them.
• Follow up on agreements that have been ratified and work to implement their provisions in coordination with the concerned authorities in the country.
• Preparing periodic reports on the administration's activity, its achievements, work obstacles and how to deal with it.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the department and present it to the general manager.

International Conventions Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Study the international agreements and protocols in which the Commission participates and present recommendations to the Authority's senior management.
• Setting regional cooperation plans with countries and determining the necessary needs for that, and setting the appropriate estimated budgets, and submitting them to the Director of International Relations.
• Coordination with ambassadors and representatives of different countries to implement activities related to bilateral agreements and environmental cooperation.
• Receive all regional and international reports and studies on the environment and refer them to the relevant departments, recommending how to benefit from them.
• Study the proposed agreements, identify the relevant local authorities, and coordinate with them on the terms of these agreements, and determine the extent of the need for these agreements and the extent of benefiting from joining them.
• Maintain a complete record of environmental agreements, and follow up on the implementation of their terms in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• To suggest the extent of the need to form national committees to study and implement agreements, follow up on the work of these committees, and prepare periodic reports on them.
• Coordination of the process of the participation of the Commission’s representatives in regional and international conferences and symposia with environmental concerns, following up on the reports and recommendations of the participants and submitting its report to the senior management.
• Addressing the departments of Environment Public Authority and governmental and non-governmental bodies related to the environment on topics of regional and international conferences related to the environment for nomination and participation.
• Addressing the departments concerned with the authority in preparing, drafting and reviewing the proposed working papers that the authority will present in the regional conferences on the environment and ways to preserve them.
• Preparing for signing agreements and protocols in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the formulation and preparation of bilateral memoranda of understanding between the governments of the regional states and the government of Kuwait.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Organizations Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Collecting and analyzing data on international organizations related to environmental activities, and proposing areas of cooperation with them in order to achieve cooperation and complementarity in environmental issues.
• Preparing and updating the lists of international organizations and bodies concerned with environmental affairs.
• Cooperating with international organizations and submitting proposals to them regarding the development of international environmental activities and processes.
• To suggest the extent of the need to form national committees to study and implement international obligations, follow up on the work of these committees and prepare periodic reports on them.
• Preparing periodic reports on the periods and value of the contributions of the State of Kuwait represented by the authority in private regional and international organizations and bodies and addressing the concerned authorities to take the necessary action.
• Follow-up to the recommendations of the League of Arab States, the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council states, and the recommendations of regional and international organizations related to the environment.
• Receiving all international reports and studies on the environment and referring them to the relevant officials, each according to its specialization, and recommending how to benefit from it.
• Study and examine the plans of regional and international organizations in dealing with environmental issues, and determine how to benefit from these plans in developing the plans of the commission, in coordination with the relevant departments.
• Coordination and cooperation with international organizations and bodies on providing the necessary information on the global environmental conditions, and submitting proposals to them in the interests of developing international environmental activities and processes.
• Coordinate the delegate participation process, follow up on the reports of the commission’s representatives and their recommendations, and follow up on its implementation.
• Follow up on the implementation of the obligations contained in the charter of international organizations in which the commission participates, in coordination with the concerned authorities, and follow up the payment of the commission’s contributions to these international bodies and organizations.
• Follow the developments in international laws related to the environment.
• Review responses to correspondence received from international organizations and bodies concerned with the environment, in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Strategic Planning Office

Tasks and Specializations:

• Proposing a future vision for the authority in line with the law establishing the authority, its goals, international agreements and global trends in the field of the environment.
• Preparing a strategic plan to support the future vision of the authority, including the identification of the strategic plan for the authority’s work in the environmental, administrative, technological and supporting technical aspects.
• Review the annual (operational) goals of the various sectors and departments within the authority.
• Define indicators for measuring operational and strategic goals.
• Updating the strategic and operational plans of the organizational units, based on the new developments and data.
• Developing and following up work plans and executive mechanisms to implement the strategic and operational plans.
• Reviewing and evaluating the actual accomplishments of organizational units and comparing them with specific goals and indicators, and working to overcome the difficulties they face.
• Proposing a national institutional strategy for the transfer of environmental technology.
• Define criteria for measuring the performance of organizational units, measuring performance and linking them to the operational goals of organizational units and comparing the performance of the authority with the performance of similar environmental institutions.
• Monitor the application and implementation of administrative systems in Environment Public Authority and ensure that they achieve the strategic and operational goals of the authority.
• Fruitful guidance for efforts and resources and better investing them.
• Setting priorities according to a systematic scientific study.
• Preparing periodic reports on the development of work related to the implementation of the strategic and operational plans and the obstacles they face and proposing recommendations to address them.
• Preparing the annual work plan and budget for the Strategic Planning Department.

Researches and Studies Office

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparation and implementation of field survey studies on environmental research priorities.
• Preparing and implementing research plans, programs and priorities aimed at protecting the environment and developing it, in coordination with the research authorities in the country.
• Preparing the annual programs of research carried out by the authority, based on the budget for research.
• Coordination with the research authorities to follow up the work of the relevant research teams.
• Preparing forms for requesting research and evaluation and arbitration forms, modifying and updating them from time to time.
• Instruct researchers to the policies and procedures related to new environmental research requests to be funded.
• Preparing the data and reports required by the Committee for Research and Environmental Studies Strategy to evaluate research projects submitted for financing purposes and to follow up the implementation of the committee’s decisions.
• Reviewing and checking the research budget submitted by researchers and following up matters of financial exchange with the concerned authorities.
• Establishing regulations and procedures to support research.
• Facilitating the task of researchers, supporting research, and overcoming research difficulties in coordination with the research authorities.
• Implementing forward-looking studies of environmental, natural and industrial risks in the near and long term and preparing reports on the results of these studies, in coordination with the environmental data department.
• Determine environmental problems, based on the results of studies and research, and provide recommendations.
• Monitoring the results of studies and research in local and international reports and magazines in the field of disasters and preparing periodic reports.
• Selection, evaluation, arbitration, and publication of various environmental publications in order to spread environmental awareness.
• Supervising the issuance of the following series of publications (Series of Environmental Issues Bulletins - Environmental Awareness Series - Environmental Book Series - Booklets and Children's Environment).
• Amendment and arbitration of the regulations and systems of these publications in cooperation with specialized arbitrators.
• Editing and reviewing environmental scientific books to be issued.
• Preparing periodic reports on the administration's activity, its achievements, work obstacles and how to deal with it.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the department and present it to the general manager.

Public Relations & Media Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Prepare and implement public relations and environmental media plans and programs related to publicizing the Authority's activities and achievements in the field of environmental protection.
• Preparing environmental counseling and awareness programs for the public and civil society organizations.
• Instruct clients with the authority to complete their transactions by directing them to the competent department.
• Organize and implement press conferences and radio and television conversations in which the Authority’s officials participate.
• Preparing and implementing programs for receiving the Authority's guests, arranging their stay, and facilitating their transportation tasks in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Preparing social, cultural and sports activities programs for the employees of the authority, in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Preparing and participating in environmental events for the authority in coordination with the relevant departments.
• Follow up on complaints published in the media and prepare responses to them in coordination with the concerned departments.
• Follow up on what is published or broadcast in the various media on the activities of Environment Public Authority and Environmental Issues, and refer it to the responsible authorities of the authority for its study and taking the necessary action regarding it.
• Follow up the approval of news and press releases of the authority’s departments for publication in newspapers and social media.
• Prepare the annual plan and operational budget for local and foreign conferences, exhibitions and seminars related to the authority’s activity in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Preparing periodic reports and submitting them to the General Manager.

Public Relations & Citizen Service Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Receive citizen complaints about the presence of any sources of pollution to the environment.
• Making an environmental newsletter and distributing it in daily newspapers and newspapers.
• Broadcasting and publishing environmental media through participation or holding conferences, exhibitions, seminars and environmental workshops.
• Implementing programs for receiving, hosting and visiting the Commission's guests participating in conferences, exhibitions and seminars, and accompanying them during their stay in Kuwait, in cooperation with the relevant authorities of the Authority.
• Developing and nurturing the relationships between the Authority's employees by organizing parties, competitions, trips, and social, cultural and sports activities.
• Receiving citizens, recognizing their complaints, needs and environmental questions, in light of the controls regulated by the authority’s policies and directing them to the authority’s offices and officials to resolve their complaints, fulfill their needs and take appropriate measures to serve them.
• Follow up on citizens' complaints and questions, and ensure that all appropriate corrective measures are taken.
• Preparing, implementing and proposing plans and programs that define the authority's activities, its service and monitoring role, its goals and achievements.
• Collecting all information on complaints, questions, and environmental needs of citizens, analyzing them and knowing their causes, and submitting recommendations and proposals to address them.
• Follow up on environmental issues of a local nature and public interest, and monitor and analyze all published news and information on environmental problems.
• Maintaining reports on the number of citizens who were received, the nature of their problems, the number of what was answered satisfactorily, and the reasons for not responding to the rest.
• Organizing press conferences called by the general director of the authority or any official in the authority.
• Participate in holding conferences, exhibitions, seminars and meetings that the authority plans, and take all measures related to organization.
• Preparing publications, brochures and information materials necessary to participate in conferences and exhibitions and distributing them to the public in support of environmental culture and media.
• Preparing and drafting news related to the Environment Public Authority with documentation of events (writing - photography) inside and outside the authority.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Media and Social Networks Communication Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing and implementing various campaigns and media coverage (visual - audible - readable).
• Building an appropriate environment for the application of electronic services and technical programs in the authority.
• Keeping pace with the recent technological changes that have occurred in the information society and establishing the appropriate environment to deal with the Internet and communications revolution.
• Implementing the systems, programs and applications necessary to manage electronic services according to the approved procedures and plans.
• Participate in holding conferences, exhibitions, symposia and meetings that the authority plans and taking all procedures related to organization.
• Issuing the electronic magazine in addition to electronic bulletins for daily newspapers.
• Preparing and implementing advertising and targeted materials to inform the citizen about the tasks and achievements of the commission.
• Preparing, implementing and publishing the various announcements of the authority.
• Prepare and produce the Authority's publications and publications in the best manner that preserves its mental image and reputation.
• Enhance coordination and partnership efforts between civil society organizations and the authority and helping them improve their performance to raise the level of their contribution to the environmental development process.
• Preparing a photo archive of all environmental or special events for the authority.
• Ensuring the validity of the photocopiers, equipment, materials and materials, and providing them with the necessary maintenance services.
• Communication with citizens through social networking sites on the Internet, such as (Facebook - Twitter) and others, through the official account of the authority and prepared for that.
• See what is published in the various media, news and comments related to the work of the commission and notify the relevant organizational units of what is published about them to prepare the appropriate responses in preparation for taking the necessary.
• Help researchers in the field of environment in the library of the Environment Public Authority.
• Performing montage and duplicating of video material and finalizing it before submitting it on the websites.
• Provide copies of the offered materials if requested.
• Setting the department's needs plans, translating them into discretionary budgets, and submitting them to the director of public relations and media for approval.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing annual periodic reports on the department's activities, achievements and the results of its work, to be submitted to the Director of Public Relations and Information.

Environmental Awareness Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Implement campaigns and participate in various and multi-purpose awareness programs, according to the target audience.
• Spreading environmental awareness among Kuwaiti citizens and decision-makers in the various ministries, government departments and private institutions on the importance of preserving the environment.
• Publish and distribute brochures, flyers and informational messages addressed to the public of the commission and local and regional organizations for the purpose of disseminating environmental awareness.
• Coordination with departments, sections and external organizations to determine their scientific and media participation in environmental awareness efforts.
• Setting an integrated plan of action to support civil society institutions and working to rehabilitate the sectors of society in ways and means of protecting the environment in cooperation with the concerned authorities.
• Preparing scientific material and implementing brochures, pamphlets and various media outlets for the purpose of disseminating environmental awareness.
• Prepare and implement an annual plan for environmental awareness and contact all internal and external parties to ensure the successful implementation of these campaigns.
• Prepare an annual plan for visiting schools, universities, institutes and clubs to increase student and youth awareness of environmental activities.
• Prepare an annual plan to visit factories, hospitals and all organizations in order to increase environmental awareness of them and their workers.
• Being constantly keen on educating civil society institutions and cooperative societies on the importance of environmental protection and preservation, informing them of the latest developments related to environmental protection methods, and communicating with them to review their proposals to provide the best.
• Improve the citizens' mental image of the authority’s role in preserving the environment.
• Prepare newsletters on the authority that include news, decisions, and achievements of the authority and distribute it to the authority’s sectors and state agencies to link the authority to society.
• Participation in organizing exhibitions and workshops.
• Holding exhibitions of schools and environmental events inside Kuwait.
• Making daily environmental bulletin for daily newspapers and newspapers.
• Participate in reputable conferences and exhibitions and seminars that achieve high environmental benefit.
• Preparing the daily newsletter and inserting it daily on the website of the Environment Agency in addition to inserting pictures and activities of the authority in the private archive.
• Participate in holding conferences, exhibitions, seminars and meetings that the authority plans, and take all measures related to organization.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Director General Office

Tasks and Specializations:

• Arranging and scheduling appointments, visits and meetings of the General Manager.
• Executing the procedure of official, confidential and personal mail of the General Director and preparing and recording records related to correspondence and documents received and issued to and from the Office of the Director General.
• Coordinating and classifying the information needed by the work of the Director General, organizing its circulation and preservation, and coordinating in this with the competent authorities inside and outside the authority.
• Interviewing representatives of entities to facilitate the completion of their transactions by directing them to the competent authorities in the authority.
• Keeping, printing and photocopying correspondence and documents related to the Office of the General Director.
• Accompany the Director General in his field visits and in the meetings he attends.
• Contribute to preparing conferences and press meetings to be held by the Director General in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Follow up the implementation of the decisions and instructions issued by the Director General and ensure that they are applied in the various sectors of the authority.
• Coordinate communication with all government agencies outside the authority.
• Take the necessary measures to provide the general manager’s office with equipment, furniture and the periodic and emergency maintenance work needs in coordination with the competent departments.
• Receive phone calls, arrange appointments, and receive invitations to the General Manager.
• Managing the activities of employees in the department and carrying out all the administrative tasks authorized by his position at work.
• Follow-up and evaluation of the work of subordinates and their achievements and work to develop it and develop their capabilities.
• Preparing periodic reports on the achievements of the General Manager's office compared to the set plan and submitting them to the General Manager.
• Preparing the annual work plan and operating budget for the office and submitting it to the general manager.

Follow-up & Coordination Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Organize, receive, deliver, record and archive all reports, books and correspondence issued and received for the office of the General Manager.
• Establish a mechanism for following up on recommendations and issues that the general manager needs in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Follow-up to the preparation of conferences, meetings or media seminars and others that are prepared or prepared by or attended by the General Manager in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Keeping, organizing and following up the general meeting dates and minutes.
• Organizing the reception of visitors and visitors to the General Manager and arranging the dates of their interviews in coordination with the concerned departments and sections.
• Carry out printing work, prepare reports, notes, and letters of the General Manager, and save and record the information that the General Manager Office needs using a computer.
• Facilitating the communication and coordination process between the various departments and divisions of the Authority to ensure the flow of information and the proper functioning of the work.
• Collect and coordinate responses from the concerned departments and transfer them to the agency concerned with preparing the final response, according to the instructions of the General Director.
• Coordination with external parties inside Kuwait regarding the requirements of senior management.
• Maintaining a general record of the topics and reports received and issued by the department for reference at the time of need.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Committees Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Follow-up the work of the internal committees of regional and international agreements and protocols, in coordination with the departments concerned with the authority and the International Relations Department.
• Keeping documents, reports and records related to the committees and working groups meetings inside the authority.
• Setting an integrated system for the method of writing letters of invitation for meetings, agendas and meeting records for internal committees and working groups.
• Formulating decisions and recommendations issued by the committees and internal work teams and following up the recommendations made in these committees and teams with the relevant authorities.
• Prepare internal committee meetings, send agendas to committee members after their approval, and provide committees and task forces with all the information necessary for their work.
• Follow up the work of the internal committees and ensure the effectiveness of their work by continuing to meet in their scheduled times, and the commitment of their members to attend and actively participate in the discussions.
• Establishing an integrated system for the work, chairmanship and membership of internal committees and teams.
• preparing for meetings of departments directors and heads of departments in the authority, executive, sub-committees and permanent and temporary advisory.
• Establishing departmental needs plans, translating them into estimated budgets and plans that are submitted to the director general’s office manager for approval.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the Director of the General Manager's Office.

Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs Sector

Tasks and Specializations:

• To suggest strategies and plans related to the administrative and financial affairs sector and follow up their implementation.
• Implementing the decisions, systems and regulations issued by the General Manager in the fields related to the work of the administrative and financial affairs sector and administrative development.
• Holding periodic meetings according to a specific program in the directors of the departments affiliated to the sector, to discuss, research and study on the progress of work, and to submit the results of those meetings to the General Manager.
• Supervising the departments and centers affiliated with it, monitoring the implementation of their work, and submitting periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the sector to His Excellency the General Manager.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the sector, present it to His Excellency the General Manager, and implement it after its approval.
• Ensuring the proper implementation of the financial and administrative regulations and administrative development.
• Supervising the preparation of the annual budget and the final account of the authority in the light of the competencies of the various departments of the authority and submitting it to His Excellency the General Manager.
• Supervising all work related to the authority's personnel affairs, including appointments, promotions, salaries, bonuses, and others.
• Providing the necessary suggestions for the proper functioning of the work and addressing the gaps in it.
• Supervising the preparation of the training plan and providing the administrative and technical cadres in the authority.
• Follow up the implementation of Law No. (42) for the year 2014 and its amendments, while monitoring the implementation of decisions and recommendations issued by the General Manager and the Board of Directors in this regard, in cooperation and coordination with the relevant authorities.
• To propose the necessary plans and programs to implement the strategies, policies and goals set by the Board of Directors in the field of environmental protection.
• Submit periodic reports on the sector's activities to the General Manager.

Deputy Director General Office for Administration, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs

Tasks and Specializations:

• Implementing and organizing procedures for receiving all correspondence, official and confidential mail, personal mail and documents received for the Office of the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs, sorting and classifying them and presenting them to the Deputy Director General for Administrative and Financial Affairs and Administrative Development, and distributing correspondence to the relevant units in accordance with his sovereign instructions and after exporting them.
• Providing legal, administrative and technical support to the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs.
• Carry out and audit all printing work before submitting it to the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs.
• Follow up the implementation of all recommendations and decisions taken, and ensure that the required actions are carried out in accordance with the approved plans and programs.
• Providing a complete base of laws, decisions, regulations and circulars required by the Authority’s work and organizing them in files so that they can be referred to when needed.
• Performing office filming, packaging, and binding works.
• Organizing and arranging procedures for receiving guests and auditors of the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs, and arranging and scheduling appointments, visits and meetings related to his sovereignty in coordination with the competent authorities, in accordance with his instructions.
• Follow up the completion of administrative matters for the office's employees and complete their job transactions in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Collecting and preparing statistical data and periodic reports of the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs.
• Maintaining files, records, correspondence and notes related to the activities of the department.
• Preparing and writing memos, reports and letters at the request of the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs.
• Executing the communications and correspondence works (phone calls - telegrams - mail - fax - email).
• Meeting the office needs of administrative and office supplies.
• Preparing annual reports on the department's work.

Administrative Affairs Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Implementing laws, regulations, decisions and circulars related to personnel affairs, and ensuring their correct application.
• Preparing the Authority’s budget project in relation to the first chapter on defining the Authority’s annual needs for the workforce in its various categories and types.
• Develop and implement effective systems for recording and maintaining transactions, correspondences and documents related to the authority's activities and activities.
• Develop and implement systems and programs to secure the authority’s needs in its various sectors of the various public services.
• Inform workers of their rights and duties, regulations, systems, and administrative procedures in force in the authority.
• Cooperating with the Civil Service Bureau in all matters related to career affairs.
• Follow up on the departments' implementation of the planned plans and work programs.
• Setting plans and programs necessary to estimate the authority's needs of the workforce in all its quantitative and qualitative classifications in the light of plans and programs for the Authority and planning career paths for its employees.
• Providing career services to the authority’s employees, from issuing certificates to those who are concerned, social insurance, and others.
• Estimating the needs of the various organizational units in the authority from the quantity and quality of work on the workload and the objective performance rates.
• Monitor the system of attendance and leave for workers in the authority in a manner that ensures their good regularity in work.
• Follow up work related to hygiene and security affairs and other services necessary for the proper functioning of the authority.
• Providing all agencies with the authority with the statistics it needs about its employees.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget.
• Prepare periodic reports on the activities of the administration and follow up on its work, and submit it to the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs.

Employees Affairs Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing and implementing plans, programs and procedures for selecting qualified employees to meet the needs of the various sectors of work in the authority.
• Preparing administrative decisions within the limits of powers and presenting them to the higher management for approval.
• Determining the authority's needs for the workforce.
• Establishing and implementing procedures for appointing employees and preparing service files that contain the documents and documents required for appointment.
• Entering and updating employee data in the employee register, as well as entering and updating it on the integrated system.
• Monitoring periodic leaves due to employees (Kuwaiti - non-Kuwaiti) mainly at the level of the commission at the beginning of the calendar year, as well as granting emergency leave.
• Follow-up to the trial period for newly appointed employees.
• Implementing administrative decisions regarding appointment, promotion, transfer, assignment, secondment, sanctions, termination of service, and other matters that may affect the employment status of employees.
• Preparing competency reports for employees and implementing their consequences.
• Preparing and approving all kinds of bonuses and allowances, overtime compensation and excellent work.
• Management of department affairs and issuance of instructions and decisions within the limits of the powers vested in the job.
• Monitor the leaves of employees who have finished their services, prepare a statement for all interruptions and vacations that the employee has enjoyed during the service period, and issue a cash allowance for the due period.
• Follow-up on absences, delays and interruptions from work and address the competent authorities to take the necessary action.
• Follow-up and evaluation of the performance of the department's subordinates and work to develop their capabilities.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on the department's activities, achievements and the results of its work, to be submitted to the Director of Administrative Affairs Department, including suggestions for developing the department's work systems and programs and facing any obstacles or problems that may interfere with the work progress.

Registration Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Receive and record all the incoming transactions for the authority and distribute it to the various departments and divisions in it.
• Receiving all decisions, circulars and books from various sectors and departments, recording, sorting and distributing them to the relevant authorities.
• Receive and record all transactions issued by the authority to external parties.
• Organizing the preservation of papers, documents and documents related to the administrative affairs of the authority.
• Retrieve transactions and documents as requested by the authority's business units for the purposes of following up and completing transactions.
• Managing the affairs of the department and issuing instructions and decisions within the limits of the powers delegated to the job.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Administrative Services Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Securing the transportation needs of the authority with work and ensuring its proper operation and maintenance, in accordance with the instructions issued in this regard by the concerned committees and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Finance issued in this regard.
• Estimate and provide the needs of the various departments of the authority with furniture, office equipment, telephones, the aesthetic appearance of the authority and other similar services, and follow up the necessary maintenance work for it, in coordination with the financial affairs department.
• Providing services and correspondence and guarding works to the authority.
• Supervising employees and supportive workers in the authority.
• Providing the authority with the needs to print and copy periodic and annual reports, bulletins, books, publications, and others.
• Control the central photography room of the authority and organize its work.
• Follow up the implementation of hygiene and guarding contracts and prepare reports thereon to take the necessary measures.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Financial Affairs Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Prepare the authority's budget project, issue directions in this regard, receive proposals from the various sectors and departments of the Commission, and coordinate between them.
• Collection of the commission's dues.
• Preparing the schedule and programs of financial expenditures and preparing reports on the results of the analysis to rationalize the expenditures of the authority and its financial decisions.
• Securing and managing the authority's property and assets and directing arrangements and procedures for their preservation.
• Preparing the authority’s financial statements and final account, and presenting them to the Authority’s officials, and submitting the necessary proposals in their regard, in preparation for submitting them to the relevant external and internal parties.
• Preparing a response to the accounts of the Audit Bureau and the Ministry of Finance on the final accounts and financial operations of the authority.
• Keep accounting and statistical records.
• Supervising and controlling the implementation of the budget within the authority after its approval by monitoring the exchange procedures to ensure the safety of spending on the various items, to verify all procedures financially and documentary, and to prove all operations in the different accounting records.
• Providing the authority with the commodity requirements, tools and devices necessary to perform the work, including procurement operations, according to the instructions and rules regulated without prejudice to the relevant laws
• Developing the efficiency of financial operations and cooperating with the authority’s sectors and departments to achieve fast and effective service in performing financial activities.
• Prepare the work plan and draft annual estimated budget for the department and follow up on its implementation after approval.
• Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on the administration's activities, achievements and the results of its work, and submitting them to the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Affairs Development, including the proposals necessary to develop the administration's work systems and programs and confronting any obstacles or problems that may interfere with the work progress.

Salaries Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Apply financial instructions related to salaries.
• Prepare payroll cards and statements, make salary adjustments, bonuses, and allowances and comply with the Civil Service Bureau program.
• Implementing the changes and making adjustments that appear as a result of the changes in the employees’ financial condition (appointment, transfer, promotions, secondment, resignation).
• Paying financial dues to employees (monthly salaries, leave of all kinds, travel tickets).
• Prepare additional business statements and excellent works for the authority's employees and approve them from the competent authorities.
• Preparing central bank transfer books for the amount of money required to be transferred to commercial banks.
• Preparing a list of all beneficiaries, to be sent to the concerned bank, along with a copy of the transfer statement for this bank, and to send the bank statements that the authority deals with to the Central Bank of Kuwait.
• Performing the payment of third-party dues related to salary deductions such as the Social Insurance Institution, judicial rulings, and others.
• Updating changes in the job status in coordination with administrative affairs and the Civil Service Bureau, such as the social situation and children's allowances.
• Participate in preparing periodic reports and the final account regarding salaries.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Purchases Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Application of procurement instructions.
• Receiving departmental needs, reviewing them with warehouse balances, determining the required requirements, and issuing purchase orders within the framework of group purchases.
• Complete the purchases in accordance with the instructions and regulations of the Ministry of Finance and follow up the appropriate procedures regarding any violations that may occur in cooperation with the competent authorities of the authority.
• Local and external market survey for materials and items needed by the authority and benefit from the results of the survey in preparing preliminary estimates of purchase expenditures and in determining appropriate alternatives and choosing from among them.
• Participate in committees for receiving different materials and items from suppliers, after verifying their conformity with specifications or purchase contracts.
• Inviting suppliers 'offers and performing direct purchases according to the departments' needs after coordination with the stores and the budget.
• Drafting procurement contracts in coordination with the competent authorities of the authority.
• Follow up on the payment of the dues of suppliers and contractors in coordination with other parties.
• Coordination with other parties to open documentary credits and customs clearance for external purchases.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Warehouse Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Apply the instructions for stores and covenant.
• Preparing stock assays for the budget project.
• Supervising the authority's chemical, gas, glass, and spare parts stores.
• Evaluating the warehouse assets, conducting its annual inventory operations, preparing the required reports in this regard, and submitting them to the director of the department.
• Participate in committees for examining and receiving materials and conforming to specifications according to purchase requests, and preparing examination and receipt reports.
• Store materials and write their data on shelves.
• Characterization, coding and arrangement of materials in warehouses according to the approved classification and the opening of items cards.
• Maintaining materials from damage and loss and following expiration dates.
• Disbursing materials according to approved exchange requests and following up the movement of materials with varieties cards.
• Preparing periodic reports on the movement of stock materials.
• Keeping inventory records and matching them with actual assets.
• Follow up the preparation of stock assays to estimate budget allocations.
• Opening cards and keeping records of the money spent on employees.
• Follow-up and supervision of accounting for warehouses and personal and organizational custody of all departments according to the circulars of the Ministry of Finance.
• Receiving the covenant from the employees who ended their services and issuing the clearance patents.
• Reviewing, auditing and pricing documents.
• Implement procedures for disposal of materials outside the scope of use according to the regulatory instructions.
• Preparing data for the automated system to enter it into the computer.
• Preparing correspondence for the Ministry of Finance regarding storage.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Budget Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Apply financial instructions related to budget.
• Follow up the preparation of the draft budget in coordination with the departments according to the instructions issued by the competent authorities.
• Follow up on the budget project inside and outside the organization until it is approved.
• Following up the implementation of the budget after its approval with the various departments of the commission and throughout the financial year.
• Implement the manual linking through the link records and implement the automatic linking to the system from the Ministry of Finance to tighten the oversight process in preparation for disbursement.
• Make budget adjustments according to the actual disbursement status (transfers - supplementary) within the framework of the law and the effective instructions.
• Follow up on the traffic and exchange movement and monitor budget execution.
• Distributing copies of the approved budget along with the instructions regulating the competent authorities.
• Take the necessary measures to estimate the emergency needs of the authority in coordination with the competent authority.
• Coordination with the various departments of the Authority with regard to assessing the credits before linking to financial obligations towards others.
• Preparing achievements reports on budget unit activity.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of administration.

Expenditure & Accounts Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Apply financial instructions related to exchange and accounts.
• Receiving transactions from the different units, reviewing them and ensuring the availability of financial credits.
• Issuing exchange and registration forms with the amounts due and following up their transfer to beneficiaries.
• Receive debit bank notices that confirm the completion of bank transfers and make accounting entries in coordination with the concerned units.
• Prepare budget estimates of expenditures.
• Paying the amounts of the insurance whose purpose ended in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Paying your personal cash pledge and following it according to the financial instructions.
• Follow-up on the disbursement of contracts concluded with contractors and suppliers.
• Preparing registration forms for financial operations that require settlements, as well as making statutory restrictions.
• Recording the financial and accounting transactions for purchasing the assets according to the approved classification.
• Carrying out periodic checks of trusts, covenants, current accounts, and statutory accounts, and working to implement them appropriately.
• Prepare bank settlement notes and make accounting entries in coordination with the units of the competent authorities.
• Receiving bank guarantees and documentary credits, maintaining and following them renewing or canceling them, and preparing statutory restrictions in this regard.
• Conducting the periodic matching process between the records and automated statements with the Ministry of Finance.
• Collect the revenues that are received by the Authority through KNET, or from external entities, and verify them with forms.
• Participate in preparing the final account and periodic reports regarding expenses.
• Preparing the necessary restrictions to close the financial year accounts.
• Preparing contracts dispensing forms after coordination and taking the necessary approvals.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing the completion reports on the department's activity and submitting it to the director of the department.

Internal Audit Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Apply audit and review instructions.
• Review the draft budget before sending it to the Ministry of Finance.
• Review the general conditions for tenders and practices to ensure that these conditions are prepared within the framework of laws and circulars.
• Review the contracts to which the Authority is a party with others, and ensure that those contracts fulfill the conditions necessary for contracting and obtain approval from regulatory authorities on the contract.
• Establish an internal audit program and study work procedures to ensure the safety of the applicable internal control systems.
• Review the exchange, registration, supply, and supporting documents for the exchange, before sending these forms to the financial observers.
• Participate in evaluating supplier offers and bids and review contracts in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Final account review and explanatory note.
• Review bank reconciliation notes and related accounting entries.
• Reviewing periodic financial reports (purchasing reports - quarterly financial reports).
• Participation in store inventory committees, personal and organizational covenants, and others.
• Preparing periodic reports on the observations resulting from the audits, sending them to the relevant authorities and commenting on them.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing the completion reports on the department's activity and submitting it to the director of the department.

Information Systems Center

Tasks and Specializations:

• Making plans for information technology projects, setting implementation priorities, and determining the automated needs and technical personnel needed to implement this.
• Work to implement the automation system in government services related to the authority.
• Developing automated systems to simplify and automate work procedures within the authority.
• Providing practical support and technical advice to the Authority’s departments to use the available computers and devices for optimal use, and to make use of the automated records that are prepared and supervised as a central data bank at the authority’s level.
• Carrying out studies, research and development in the field of information technology related to the authority's policy and objectives.
• Preparing and following up the implementation of information systems projects.
• Managing contracts for the purchase and maintenance of operational and applied hardware and software, and maintaining security and safety of operational equipment and programs.
• Follow up on technical maintenance and the needs of the beneficiaries, and provide technical advice to them in those areas and distribute those specializations.
• Choosing and providing the methods and techniques needed by the technical support section.
• Periodic analysis of the complaints data of users in the authority’s automated devices to discover persistent or recurring problems, and work to treat their causes in cooperation with the concerned authorities, and submit proposals.
• Design and implementation of systems that serve the environmental information and make use of it in the authority’s departments, and prepare a timetable for implementing the operating systems.
• Coordination with the competent departments in the distribution of devices based on the study of actual needs.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the Deputy Director General for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs.
• Preparing the relevant periodic reports related to the automated systems and submitting them to the Deputy Director General for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs.

Technical Support Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Determining the operational data needs of computers, storage units, printers, scanners, communication networks, and the operating systems related to each of them.
• Supervising the information systems and data structures.
• Provide support and advice to the authority’s departments in order to make optimal use of the available resources, provide services and training on systems when needed, and spread technical awareness to the authority’s employees.
• Follow up on the performance of various data, monitor energy use in all components, including automated equipment, software, and communication networks, and develop visions for the necessary expansion and appropriate update of technical development.
• Carrying out all kinds of maintenance operations (periodic - preventive) to ensure that faults do not occur.
• Preparing technical specifications for developing, replacing and upgrading security tools and programs, methods of bridging gaps in different environments, and addressing Breakthroughs and gaps for networks and systems.
• Preparing the halls and theater of the authority from the requirements for work.
• Preparing and implementing plans and programs for computers and application systems databases, and providing support services and technical support to the organizational units related to the authority.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submit it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Operation Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Setting performance standards and procedures for operating systems.
• Design and develop models, records, procedures, programs and methods necessary to tighten the workflow, including establishing and maintaining off-the-shelf programs.
• Evaluating and experimenting with the information transfer network, following up the work of the programs related to the networks system, and their suitability for their users to deal with these programs.
• Establish security and safety systems for equipment, devices, machines and the authority's website.
• Documenting operating systems, communications, and ready-made programs and providing technical advice for their use.
• Developing and implementing systems for keeping, retrieving and updating documents.
• Coordination with the relevant departments when implementing changes to operating system software.
• Connect the authority’s network with the governmental network.
• Receive the requests of the beneficiaries, register and follow up on their implementation and resolution, and notify the beneficiary of the result.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the department manager.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Systems Development Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Providing technical consultations and studies necessary for developing information systems automatically.
• Analyze work procedures in the authority’s departments and submit proposals to develop the necessary electronic services for the concerned departments and discuss practical feasibility of them.
• Adopting methodologies and tools for analyzing and developing electronic applications and services, and ensuring their implementation.
• Implement systems development and ensure that the implementation and completion stages are completed in a timely and specific manner and in accordance with agreed standards and specifications.
• Preparing detailed development plans in their stages in cooperation with the competent authorities.
• Follow up the development of technical cadres and provide them with technical references.
• Designing, developing and implementing systems and selection activities, ensuring that work is done at a high level of quality, using sound standards and effective utilization of available resources.
• Reviewing activity reports, following up on achievements in development projects, and matching project outputs with previously defined policies, standards and general frameworks.
• Participate in assessing the requirements of technical devices and cadres, set and test training plans, monitor the performance of the systems analysis and development team, and work to develop it to the required level.
• Ensuring the quality of automated systems through the use of quantitative and qualitative measures and techniques to ensure the comprehensive quality of the service provided by the Information Systems Center.
• Planning and developing the professional path for technical cadres and evaluating their tool through implementing systems development projects and ensuring the optimum use of available tools and devices.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the department manager.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Engineering Affairs Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Securing the authority’s needs for projects, engineering, maintenance, and technical services.
• Adopting the discretionary plans and budgets of the affiliated departments, and setting up mechanisms for following up these plans and budgets.
• General supervision of the studies carried out by the departments affiliated to the department in determining the authority's needs for projects, construction, maintenance and technical services.
• General supervision of the relationship of the authority with contractors and consultants, and the representation of the authority in this regard to ensure the integrity and validity of this relationship in a manner beneficial to the authority.
• Prepare special and detailed specifications for engineering designs, spare parts, tools, machines and technical devices necessary for the work of the department.
• Providing protection and safety systems for all of the authority's installations and facilities according to the nature of its work and applying security instructions in emergency situations.
• Approving the instructions for settling the accounts of contractors and consultants and transferring them to the financial department to take the necessary measures.
• Participate in the work of technical committees and task forces to evaluate suppliers' offers, follow up on their work and receive them.
• Study the projects proposed for implementation in the authority, in terms of engineering and economic feasibility, and approve them in the early stages of them.
• Collecting the authority’s projects and construction needs, and compiling them in the form of long-term plans and annual plans.
• Setting technical specifications and requirements for the required engineering works in accordance with the requirements of the requesting authority and participating in preparing tender documents and contract formulas related to engineering works in cooperation with the concerned authorities.
• Preparing documents and documents for the authority’s projects to be presented in public tenders.
• Follow up on the stages of implementing projects technically, and represent the authority at the implementation sites.
• Checking all "change orders" proposed in the projects under implementation, after discussing them with the specialized engineers on the one hand and the contractors and consultants on the other hand, in a way that would benefit the authority.
• To suggest means to develop and improve engineering services through studies and meetings with officials in the authority concerned.
• Prepare the annual estimated budget for the department including work plans and programs, and follow up on its approval and implementation.
• Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on the department's activities, achievements, results of its work and proposals for developing the department's work systems.

Projects and Constructions Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Study the projects proposed for implementation in the authority, in terms of engineering and economic feasibility, and approve them in the early stages.
• Collecting the authority’s projects and construction needs, and compiling it in the form of long-term plans and annual plans.
• Preparing documents and documents for the authority’s projects to be presented in public tenders.
• Follow-up on the work and recommendations of the evaluation committees for the offers submitted by consultants and contractors, setting standards for the comparison of offers, and selecting the most appropriate for the benefit of the commission.
• Preparing work sites and delivering them to contractors, and overcoming obstacles facing consultants and contractors in starting their work and projects for the authority.
• Executing projects technically, and representing the authority at the implementation sites.
• Review the extent of congruence between contracts with consultants and contractors and the actual reality of implementation, and take all measures to follow up on tests, checks and measurements to ensure compliance with the agreed terms.
• Participate in the initial and final receipt works for engineering and projects works, and approve the final acceptance certificate for the project from the competent contractor.
• Follow up on the meetings that take place with contractors and consultants, in order to ensure the progress of implementation in accordance with the established programs.
• Preparing designs, plans, technical specifications and bill of quantities for projects for which a consultant engineer is appointed or that are implemented by the authority.
• Issuing instructions for settling the accounts of consultants and contractors at the end of each period or stage according to the agreement, and submitting them to the director of administration for approval.
• Maintain all documents, forms, records, agreements, technical specifications and correspondence with each of the consultants and contractors.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Technical Services Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Setting a plan for periodic (preventive) maintenance needs for all departments and departments of the authority, and ensuring that it is implemented at specified times and with high efficiency.
• Implement emergency maintenance as quickly as possible to avoid any delays in the workflow.
• Preparing technical documents and documents for civil, electrical and mechanical maintenance contracts.
• Review technical and engineering designs related to small engineering projects and update plans for maintenance work.
• Monitor the work of maintenance contractors, evaluate the level of implementation of these works, and make the necessary recommendations in this regard.
• Prepare special and detailed specifications for the materials and spare parts required for the maintenance workshop, the number, machines and technical devices therein.
• Securing all materials, spare parts, tools, machines, tools and technical devices needed for maintenance by the authority.
• Implement and follow up maintenance works in coordination with the engineers and technicians working in the department.
• Study the causes and conditions of repeated faults, and suggest appropriate measures to avoid them.
• Issuing instructions for the settlement of contractors accounts in accordance with the agreements signed with them, and submitting them to the director of the department for approval.
• Maintain all documents, forms, records, agreements, technical specifications and correspondence with contractors regarding maintenance.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Prepare periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and present them to the director of the department.

Supplementary Marine Support Services Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Provide the necessary marine equipment and coordinate with the concerned departments in this regard.
• Providing the boats with all equipment and devices to meet the sailing needs for all purposes on request.
• Ensuring the safety of the devices, and following up the maintenance and dyeing of the authority's equipment, boats and ships.
• Coordination to facilitate maritime surveying and sample collection cruises.
• Preparing the daily work program for marine services and following up on implementation.
• Establishing regular (preventive) and emergency (curative) maintenance plans, and verifying their application so that marine equipment can be provided efficiently.
• Renewing the validity of safety certificates for boats and lifeboats and their equipment.
• Monitor marine installations and maintain integrated records and database for each marine equipment unit to ensure safety and maintenance of these installations in order to operate efficiently.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Administrative Development & Training Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing organizational studies and developing administrative and employment structures.
• Conducting research related to work methods and methods, developing them and simplifying procedures.
• Study procedures, models and service development.
• Determining and identifying training needs in the various sectors and departments of the Authority, and preparing and implementing rehabilitation and training plans and programs that meet these needs.
• Implementing systems for classifying and arranging jobs, updating and developing them in coordination with the competent authorities, and record all relevant data.
• Coordination with the directors of representatives of consultative offices and various training and educational institutions regarding training offers.
• Supervising the preparation and implementation of projects and studies for job descriptions, simplification of procedures, work systems, organizational and administrative studies, and proposing ways to develop them.
• Conducting administrative research and following up on the results of studies related to administrative development and training.
• Conducting consultative studies and providing technical assistance to the administrative units of the Authority.
• Contribute to the issuance of work procedures guides and references.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and submitting it to the Deputy General Manager for Administrative and Financial Affairs and Administrative Development and following it up.
• Prepare periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the administration and present them to the Deputy General Manager for Administrative, Financial and Administrative Development Affairs.

Training Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Conduct studies related to the identification of qualifying, training, administrative and technical programs and courses.
• Identify and define the types of training needs and capabilities for developing the workforce in the authority.
• Develop general and detailed plans for rehabilitation, training, retraining, and determine the necessary operational budget.
• Preparing projects of transformational, technical and administrative training programs.
• Monitor the trainees continuously, prepare periodic reports on them, and notify their duty stations of the results of these reports.
• Evaluating the training offers received for the authority.
• Issuing certificates of passing programs and training courses.
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• Preparing the training bag for training programs and distributing them at the beginning of the course to the trainees.
• Coordination and follow-up of the nominations for the various training programs to ensure homogeneity among the trainees in one program and the nature of the work of the participants in the program.
• Design, implement and follow-up training programs that are appropriate to the training needs in cooperation with the departments and administrative units that benefit from these programs within the authority.
• Maintaining a record of the new appointees of the authority and providing them with training programs in coordination with the departments and departments concerned with the authority.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Administrative Development Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing organizational and administrative studies for all organizational units of the authority and working to apply and develop the organizational structure in the light of organizational, administrative and technological developments related to the nature of the authority's work.
• Study organizational and administrative problems and propose appropriate solutions.
• Study and analyze methods and methods of work, work to develop and simplify them, and evaluate models and records to facilitate the completion of the work.
• Compilation, arrangement and classification of jobs in groups and sub-categories.
• Job description and preparation of job description cards.
• Issuing the procedures manual, the reference manual and the organization's organizational guide.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Technical Affairs Sector

Tasks and Specializations:

• Propose strategies and plans related to the technical affairs sector and follow up on their implementation.
• Implementing the decisions, systems and regulations issued by the General Manager in the fields related to the technical affairs sector activities.
• Holding periodic meetings according to a specific program in the directors of the departments affiliated to the sector, to discuss, research and study on the work progress, and to submit the results of those meetings to the General Manager.
• Supervising the departments and centers affiliated with it, monitoring the implementation of their activities, and submitting periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the sector to the General Manager.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the sector, present it to His Excellency the General Manager and implement it after its approval.
• Setting the general plan for environmental emergency services that fall within its competencies in cooperation with the concerned authorities in light of the general plan of the authority, and including and proposing the necessary programs to implement and follow up the plan.
• Follow up the implementation of Law No. (42) for the year 2014 and its amendments, while overseeing the implementation of the decisions and recommendations issued by the General Director and the Board of Directors in this regard, in cooperation and coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Setting a plan for oversight, directing judicial officers, and sudden periodic inspections to verify the application of laws, regulations, decisions, and requirements, and proposing ways to improve and develop these services.
• Propose plans and programs necessary to implement the strategies, policies, and goals set by the Board of Directors in the field of environmental protection.
• Cooperating with the concerned authorities to preserve wildlife and protect the natural genetic repository of living organisms, with a view to implementing environmental goals in this field.
• Preparing recommendations, specifications and requirements to protect the environment and the health of citizens from pollution risks in coordination with other parties.
• Participate in preparing laws, regulations, decisions and circulars related to the work of the sector.
• Submit periodic reports on the sector's activities to the General Manager.

Deputy Director General of Technical Affairs Office

Tasks and Specializations:

• Implementing and organizing procedures for receiving all correspondence, official and confidential mail, personal mail and documents received for the Office of the Deputy Director General for Technical Affairs, sorting, classifying and presenting them to the Deputy General Manager for Technical Affairs, and distributing correspondence to the relevant units in accordance with his sovereign instructions and after exporting them
• Providing legal, administrative and technical support to the Deputy General Manager for Technical Affairs.
• Completion and verification of all printing work before submitting it to the Deputy General Manager for Technical Affairs.
• Follow up the implementation of all recommendations and decisions taken, and ensure that the required actions are carried out in accordance with the approved plans and programs.
• Providing a complete base of laws, decisions, regulations and circulars required by the Authority’s work and organizing them in files so that they can be referred to when needed.
• Performing office filming, packaging, and binding works.
• Organizing and arranging procedures for receiving guests and auditors of the Deputy General Manager for Technical Affairs, and arranging and scheduling appointments, visits, meetings and meetings related to his sovereignty in coordination with the competent authorities, in accordance with the instructions.
• Follow up the completion of administrative matters for the office's employees and complete their job transactions in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Collecting and preparing statistical data and periodic reports of the Deputy General Manager for Technical Affairs.
• Maintaining files, records, correspondence and notes related to the activities of the department.
• Preparing and writing memos, reports and letters at the request of the Deputy General Manager for Technical Affairs.
• Executing the communications and correspondence works (phone calls - telegrams - mail - fax - email).
• Meeting the office needs of administrative and office supplies.
• Preparing annual reports on the department's work.

Analytical Laboratory Center

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing quality control policies and plans for laboratory equipment.
• Preparing work guides, procedures and guidelines that define work standards and performance indicators in the authority’s laboratories and manage quality control processes and laboratory performance standards.
• Follow up the results of the laboratory analyzes and the materials used, and ensure that the standard work steps are followed within the authority's laboratories.
• Conducting laboratory tests and analyzes for the samples.
• Exchanging information with specialized international laboratories, and comparing the results of the authority's laboratories with the standard results of these laboratories.
• Coordination with the laboratories and standards bodies in Kuwait, in the field of exchanging experiences and information.
• Receive, inspect, install and operate the devices, equipment and spare parts that are supplied to the authority's various laboratories.
• Preparing the system and working mechanism for receiving samples and transferring them to the concerned laboratories.
• Preparing plans and programs for periodic and emergency maintenance of laboratory equipment to conduct analyzes.
• Coordination between the laboratories of the authority in order to optimize the use of the authority's laboratories.
• Conducting all kinds of analyzes, extracting results, and providing the concerned departments with the results.
• Create a database of the results and provide its outputs to the technical and control departments of the authority.
• Participate in environmental emergency plans.
• Prepare periodic reports on the analytical laboratory services and equipment operation efficiency and submit them to the Deputy Director General for Technical Affairs.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the Deputy Director General for Technical Affairs.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the Deputy Director General for Technical Affairs.

Quality Control and Equipment Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Determine and manage the devices and equipment needs of the authority's departments and laboratories within the limits of the available budget.
• Determine and provide the needs of the authority's laboratories in terms of chemicals, gases, glassware, and all devices and equipment necessary to conduct measurements and analyzes in order to ensure that the authority's laboratories can perform their work in the most complete manner.
• Preparing offers to supply and purchase devices and equipment, determine specifications, compare suppliers, and recommend purchase.
• Receive, inspect, install and operate the devices, equipment and spare parts that are supplied to the authority's laboratories.
• Preparing plans and programs for periodic and emergency maintenance of laboratory equipment, and following up on the implementation of maintenance work.
• Issuing periodic informational bulletins on the means of occupational safety for laboratory workers in the authority.
• Executing contracts for periodic maintenance of laboratory equipment, and participating in developing technical specifications for these contracts, in coordination with the Engineering Affairs Department.
• Determine the exchange of chemicals, gases, glassware and spare parts belonging to the authority's laboratories.
• Annual inventory of devices, chemicals, gases and glassware, in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Preparing a mechanism for achieving integration between the authority's laboratories and using human and material resources.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Chemical Tests Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Plan, organize and provide the central analysis services required of the authority's various departments.
• Follow up on the latest developments and methods used in the analysis processes for chemical tests.
• Providing the appropriate conditions to conduct highly reliable and efficient chemical analyzes and tests.
• Managing and coordinating the resources of the Central Analytical Laboratory to ensure optimal use of them in accordance with specific regulations and controls.
• Experimenting chemicals used internationally on the Kuwaiti environment to choose the appropriate ones and make use of them in coordination with the Chemical Safety Department.
• Maintaining the most recent central records and an automated database of chemical examinations and submitting reports to take corrective action.
• Educating and guiding the center’s clients about the services it provides and the mechanism of its work.
• Coordination between the authority's laboratories with regard to the results of laboratory tests to ensure participation and benefit from the information available at the authority.
• Prepare periodic reports on the analytical laboratory services and the efficiency of the devices operation and submit it to the director of the department.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Biological Analysis Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Plan, organize and provide the central analysis services required of the authority's various departments.
• Following up on the latest developments and methods used in the analysis processes and tools for biological tests.
• Providing the appropriate conditions for efficient and reliable biological analyzes and examinations.
• Managing and coordinating the resources of the Central Analytical Laboratory to ensure optimal use of them in accordance with specific regulations and controls.
• Maintaining the most recent central records and an automated database for biological checks and submitting reports for corrective action.
• Educating and guiding the center’s clients about the services it provides and the mechanism of its work.
• Experimenting with biological materials used internationally on the Kuwaiti environment to choose the appropriate ones and make use of them.
• Coordination between the authority's laboratories with regard to the results of laboratory tests to ensure participation and benefit from the information available at the authority.
• Prepare periodic reports on the analytical laboratory services and the efficiency of operating the devices under it and submit them to the Director of the Department.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Soil Analysis Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Planning, organizing and providing the soil analysis services required from the authority's various departments.
• Following up on the latest developments and methods used in soil testing processes and analysis tools.
• Provide the appropriate conditions for conducting analyzes and soil checks with high efficiency and credibility.
• Managing and coordinating the materials of the Central Analytical Laboratory to ensure optimal use of them in accordance with specific regulations and controls.
• Maintaining the most recent central records and an automated database for soil checks and submitting reports to take corrective actions.
• Educating the center’s clients about the services it provides and the work mechanism.
• Coordination between the authority's laboratories with regard to the results of laboratory analyzes to ensure participation and benefit from the information available at the authority.
• Prepare periodic reports on the analytical laboratory services and the efficiency of operating the devices under it and submit them to the director of the department.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Biodiversity Conservation Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing national strategies and action plans related to preserving biodiversity in the State of Kuwait, in coordination with the concerned authorities from inside and outside the Environment Public Authority.
• Application and implementation of the Environmental Protection Law and its implementing regulations with regard to preserving biodiversity.
• Monitoring and controlling biological diversity in the marine and wild environment in the State of Kuwait.
• Planning and directing department activities aimed at preserving living resources and ecosystems from all types of environmental pollution and other human activities and practices harmful to biological diversity.
• Selection of reserves sites, regulation of their exploitation and control, and protection of their biodiversity.
• Monitor and study the effect of environmental pollutants on living organisms such as plants, fish and animals, and suggest the necessary means to protect and rehabilitate them.
• Follow up on the implementation of Kuwait's obligations towards international and regional agreements concerned with biological diversity.
• Suggest and follow up the implementation of the national legislation related to the conservation of biological diversity issued by the Environment Public Authority.
• Follow-up on the recommendations of international and regional organizations related to preserving biodiversity in the terrestrial and marine environment, with participation in its membership in the State of Kuwait.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the Deputy Director General for Technical Affairs.
• Preparing periodic reports and submitting them to the Deputy Director General for Technical Affairs.

Marine Organism Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Monitor and control the health and safety of marine organisms and their use as biological indicators to assess the environmental situation and prepare periodic reports in this regard.
• Monitor and monitor sensitive ecosystems in the marine environment and suggest ways to conserve them.
• Learn about the impact of environmental conditions and wrong human activities on marine organisms and ecosystems.
• Carry out ecological surveys of marine flora and micro-organisms and use their qualitative and quantitative distribution as an indicator of environmental equilibrium.
• Monitor the red tide and other biological phenomena (such as fish deaths - jellyfish boom) and prepare programs and plans to monitor them and predict their occurrence.
• Develop plans and programs to deal with marine disasters related to marine organisms in cooperation with the relevant authorities inside and outside the Environment Public Authority.
• Preparing training plans and programs to prepare technical cadres in the field of monitoring and protecting marine living creatures in coordination with the Administrative Development and Training Department.
• Follow up the implementation of the obligations of the State of Kuwait towards international and regional agreements on biological diversity.
• Propose and follow up the implementation of national legislations related to the conservation of biological diversity issued by the Environment Public Authority.
• Follow-up to the recommendations of international and regional organizations - of which the State of Kuwait is a member - related to preserving biological diversity in the marine environment.
• Follow up on citizens' complaints regarding the deaths and prosperity of marine creatures.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Wildlife Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Monitoring and tracking the components of biological diversity in the wild environment outside the natural reserves, including fungal organisms of various kinds, migratory and resident animals and plants, and their distribution in the terrestrial ecosystems in the State of Kuwait, according to a program of periodic visits.
• Identify the types of plants and animals that are threatened with extinction or that suffer from environmental or human pressures, and determine the requirements for their protection and the effectiveness of the protection methods used.
• Updating the data of the endangered species lists of plant and animal fungal organisms for the State of Kuwait periodically.
• Suggest and follow up the implementation of legislation related to the preservation of biodiversity issued by the Environment Public Authority.
• Follow up on the implementation of Kuwait's obligations towards international and regional agreements concerned with biological diversity.
• Follow up on the recommendations of international and regional organizations related to the preservation of biological diversity in the wild environment, of which the State of Kuwait is a member.
• Follow up the complaints of citizens and official authorities regarding fungal organisms (animal, plant and wild).
• Preparing and implementing the necessary programs to protect endangered species and resettle species that have become extinct from the Kuwaiti environment, in cooperation with the Natural Reserves Section.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Natural Reserves Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Selection of natural reserves sites according to international scientific requirements.
• Regulating the exploitation and management of natural reserves for the purpose of preserving wildlife.
• Monitoring innate life in the natural reserves in their various forms (marine, vegetarian, animal and wildlife).
• Determine the scientific and technical means and methods necessary to implement the required protection and sustainable use of these Fungal organisms.
• Resettlement of some species of living organisms in nature reserves.
• Follow up on violations of natural reserves and their basic components of the Environment Public Authority.
• Participate in studying the implementation of Kuwait's commitments to international, regional and local agreements and their affiliated bodies related to natural reserves and biodiversity.
• Follow up the implementation of the national legislation related to the preservation of biological diversity issued by the Environment Public Authority.
• Follow up on the recommendations of international and regional organizations related to natural reserves, of which Kuwait is a member.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Water Quality Monitoring Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Determining the sources and levels of water pollution and setting the necessary plans and programs to control and limit them.
• Preparation of standards for water quality and water properties.
• Establishing the necessary plans and programs to control and reduce the sources and levels of water pollution.
• Monitor and study the impact of environmental pollutants on living organisms and try to control pollution sources and reduce them.
• Preparing technology development plans used to monitor and measure water pollution.
• Implement the authority's obligations with regard to international and regional agreements related to water pollution and to maintain its quality.
• Follow-up to regional and international developments regarding water control and protection.
• Cooperating with the concerned authorities in completing monitoring and control programs, taking field measurements and collecting samples such as the Ministry of Electricity and Water, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and other competent authorities.
• Preparing periodic reports and submitting them to the Deputy General Manager for Technical Affairs.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the department and present it to the Deputy General Manager for Technical Affairs.

Marine Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing and implementing plans and programs for identifying sources of pollution of sea water, determining pollution rates and means of pollution control.
• Draw up and implement continuous monitoring programs on the level of pollution of sea water from various sources.
• Preparing the necessary recommendations and requirements to preserve the health and safety of citizens from polluted sea water.
• Preparing plans and training programs for preparing technical cadres in the field of sea water pollution.
• Conducting all kinds of marine surveys and determining the degree, type and size of marine pollution.
• Monitoring marine, physical, chemical, meteorological and oil factors, and their impact on the balance or marine pollution.
• Setting standards for seawater quality, developing guidelines in this regard, and determining acceptable pollution rates and their various sources.
• Follow-up of the relevant authorities in the standards of sea water quality, and the leakage of pollutants in the permitted standard form.
• Obtaining marine measurement samples and data in cooperation with the concerned departments, and analyzing samples to reach the results of the extent of the balance or marine pollution in preparation for taking the appropriate action.
• Determine the negative effects of the encroachment and pollution of marine waters, and provide proposed solutions to address them and reduce their negative effects.
• Cooperating with the concerned departments to search for the sources of pollution of the marine environment, the factors affecting its spread, and the appropriate solutions to reduce it.
• Determine the sources and levels of marine pollution as a result of navigation in regional waters and as a result of the disposal of industrial waste and wastewater at sea.
• Follow up on regional and international agreements related to monitoring sources and rates of marine pollution, and supervise its application and compliance with their standards.
• Monitoring the leakage of oils and any other pollutants into marine waters, and knowing the type and quantities of the leaked material, and the method of combating it.
• Make plans and programs for monitoring marine pollution, and determining its causes, percentage, and ways to combat it.
• Conducting environmental, marine, physical and chemical surveys and studies, monitoring them and identifying their impact on marine life.
• Monitor the parties that cause marine pollution, ensure that they adhere to the standards for the quality of marine life, and help them dispose of their waste in an appropriate manner.
• Draw up and implement the necessary plans and programs to control the sources of seawater pollution, reduce pollutant rates and limit various pollution levels.
• Measuring the level of bacterial pollution and other types of microorganisms in seawater and beaches.
• Monitor and analyze sea water and ensure its quality for various uses.
• Preparing proposals and plans to develop technology used to monitor and measure pollutants in sea water.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department and submitting it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Drinking Water & Groundwater Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing and implementing plans and programs for determining the sources of pollution of drinking water and groundwater and determining pollution rates and means of combating and reducing pollution.
• Drawing and implementing continuous monitoring programs on the level of pollution of drinking water from different sources.
• Preparation of standards for water quality and water properties.
• Work on preparing contingency plans and mechanisms to maintain groundwater reserves and quality.
• Draw and implement the necessary plans and programs to control the sources of pollution of drinking water and groundwater, reduce pollutant rates and reduce different levels of pollution.
• Measuring the level of bacterial contamination and other microorganisms in drinking water.
• Preparing technology development proposals and plans used to monitor and measure pollutants in the water.
• Preparing the necessary recommendations and requirements to preserve the health and safety of citizens from polluted water.
• Preparing training plans and programs to prepare technical cadres in the field of water pollution.
• Setting drinking water quality standards and following up with the relevant authorities in drinking water quality standards.
• Obtaining samples of drinking water in cooperation with the concerned departments, and analyzing the samples to reach the results of the extent of the approval of standards and specifications or pollution, in preparation for taking the appropriate action.
• Collect samples to measure arsenic, other trace elements, hydrocarbons, fluoride, molybdenum, dissolved sulfides, and other elements.
• Collecting samples, data and field measurements in cooperation with the concerned departments and analyzing the samples to reach special results in the characteristics of groundwater and the extent of balance or pollution in preparation for taking the necessary action.
• Carrying out all types of surveys around the groundwater sites, determining the degrees and type of pollution, and coordinating with the concerned authorities to take the necessary measures towards it.
• Cooperating with the concerned authorities in completing monitoring and control programs, taking field measurements and collecting samples such as the Ministry of Electricity and Water, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and other competent authorities.
• Establishing plans and programs for monitoring water pollution, and specifying its causes, percentages and methods of combating it.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Coastal and Desertification Monitoring Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing plans and programs to determine the sources of soil pollution, the rate of pollution and how to control it.
• Follow up the implementation of the provisions of local laws and international agreements on tackling the problem of desertification.
• Preparing technical reports on the state of the soil, its components and desertification.
• Preparing plans and programs for identifying and sources of pollution in coastal sediment types and means of combating them.
• Study the state’s development plan, the impact of each project on the coast, in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Collecting data available at various authorities related to coastal projects, surveys and studies, and creating a database related to the authority’s information system.
• Determine all sources of coastal damage, and lay out the necessary plans and programs to control the sources of damage to the coastal environment and work to limit them.
• Beaches survey to identify violations and pollution, its quantity and methods to combat it, and provide safe beaches to preserve the health and safety of citizens.
• Establishing recommendations and requirements for maintaining the health and safety of citizens from the risks of desertification.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the Deputy General Director for Technical Affairs.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the Deputy General Director for Technical Affairs.

Coastal Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Conducting longitudinal sectors of the beaches to collect field data related to wave and tidal movement and currents adjacent to the coast and its impact on changing the shape of the coast and the safety of coastal projects and installations.
• Conducting a survey of all Kuwaiti coasts, including the islands, using the latest technologies for remote sensing, and using aerial photographs to find places of erosion and coastal precipitation.
• Monitor wave movement, directions and impact on Kuwaiti coasts, sediment and pollutants movement, and use them in forecasting processes for coastal environmental impacts.
• Conducting a geomorphological survey of the coasts and making maps using the satellite pictures, aerial photographs and field data collected.
• Establishing recommendations and requirements for maintaining the health and safety of citizens from the risks of coastal pollution, in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Determine all sources of coastal damage, and lay out the necessary plans and programs to control the sources of damage to the coastal environment and work to limit them.
• Taking samples of coastal sediments to measure the different pollutants and submitting them to the competent authorities in the authority for analysis.
• Study the environmental impact of coastal development and provide environmental consultations for the projects to be built on the coast in coordination with the relevant departments.
• Follow up on and respond to inquiries and complaints received from the concerned agencies.
• Coordination between the department and the competent authorities to ensure that the beaches are used for the purposes licensed, and that they are free from any pollution or encroachment.
• Cooperating with the concerned departments in environmental information efforts on beach pollution and how to preserve it.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Desertification Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing and implementing plans and programs to determine the sources of soil pollution, the rate of pollution and how to control it.
• Monitoring the prevalence of desertification in various regions of the country and its impact on the type and components of soils.
• Follow up the implementation of the provisions of local laws and international agreements on tackling the problem of desertification.
• Carrying out surveys and monitoring the country's desert areas.
• Monitor the pressures of mining, overgrazing and off-road traffic.
• Preparing technology development proposals and plans used for monitoring and measuring soil pollutants.
• Establishing recommendations and requirements for maintaining the health and safety of citizens from the risks of desertification.
• Determine the sources of soil pollution and levels of pollution from different sources.
• Preparing technical reports on the state of the soil, its components and desertification.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Inspection and monitoring Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Continuous monitoring of pollutants in the external environment, the internal environment, workplaces, industrial facilities, government and entertainment sectors, and residential areas, and studying the surrounding environmental conditions according to the work plan for the work of supervision and inspection in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Preparing technical and time programs and plans to carry out control and inspection work to ensure the extent to which the various establishments meet the systems, requirements and standards issued by the authority, in cooperation with the relevant departments.
• Conducting a field survey to identify the operating facilities in the country and collecting all data and information on those facilities to facilitate the process of follow-up and periodic inspection.
• Carrying out field inspection visits, following up the implementation of environmental laws and requirements, and controlling and issuing environmental violations.
• Propose appropriate solutions and appropriate plans to ensure that the various installations of environmental systems, requirements and standards are optimally applied and in line with the authority's goals and aspirations.
• Managing the environmental inspection and control system to achieve its objectives and ensure the development of the supervisory work in the authority.
• Follow up and direct the judicial seizure officers to supervise the follow-up of the procedures related to accepting reconciliation requests from the violating establishments and follow them in this regard, in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Working to overcome all obstacles and difficulties facing the employees granted the status of judicial seizure while carrying out the work of supervision and inspection and providing all the requirements and means necessary for them to perform their duties in an optimal manner.
• Evaluating the supervision and inspection work in the authority and setting the appropriate suggestions for developing the work and raising the level of performance.
• Submit the minutes of all attachments and documents to the Environmental Compliance Department to take the necessary action.
• Preparing reports that include the quality of deviations in the application, proposing the appropriate solutions and informing the concerned parties of the result.
• Coordination with the authority’s departments regarding environmental monitoring.
• Follow-up on management correspondence to the various units inside and outside the commission.
• Preparing periodic reports and submitting them to the Deputy General Director for Technical Affairs.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the department and present it to the Deputy General Director for Technical Affairs.

Al-Asimah Governorate Inspection Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Continuous monitoring of pollutants in the external environment, the internal environment, workplaces, industrial facilities, government and entertainment sectors, and residential areas within the geographical range of the capital governorate, and studying the surrounding environmental conditions according to the work plan for the work of supervision and inspection in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Monitoring the implementation of laws, regulations, regulations and circulars in accordance with the administrative procedures followed and related to the work of the commission.
• Ensure that the facility owner or operator is in compliance with the Environmental Protection Law, its executive regulations, and environmental decisions and requirements.
• Follow-up projects implemented by the Environment Public Authority within the scope of the Capital Governorate, in coordination with the relevant authorities in accordance with the regulations and laws regulating this.
• Preparing technical and time programs and plans to carry out control and inspection work.
• Preparing technical reports including the quality of deviations in the application and proposing appropriate solutions.
• Follow up the implementation of management plans approved by the director of the department.
• Take all measures to move the field to achieve the goals.
• Preparing periodic progress reports.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Hawally Governorate Inspection Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Continuous monitoring of pollutants in the external environment, the internal environment, workplaces, industrial facilities, government and entertainment sectors, and residential areas within the geographical scope of the Hawally Governorate, and studying the surrounding environmental conditions according to the work plan for the work of supervision and inspection in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Monitoring the implementation of laws, regulations, regulations and circulars in accordance with the administrative procedures followed and related to the work of the commission.
• Ensure that the owner or operator of the facility complies with the Environmental Protection Law, its executive regulations, and environmental decisions and requirements.
• Follow up on projects implemented by the Environment Public Authority within the scope of Hawally Governorate, in coordination with the relevant authorities, in accordance with the regulations and laws regulating this.
• Preparing technical and time programs and plans to carry out monitoring and inspection work.
• Prepare technical reports that include the quality of deviations in the application and propose appropriate solutions.
• Follow up the implementation of management plans approved by the director of the department.
• Take all measures for field transfer to achieve the goals.
• Preparing periodic progress reports.
• Prepare the department's work plan and annual budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate Inspection Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Continuous monitoring of pollutants in the external environment, the internal environment, workplaces, industrial facilities, governmental and recreational sectors, and residential areas within the geographical scope of Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate, and studying the surrounding environmental conditions according to the work plan for the work of supervision and inspection in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Monitoring the implementation of laws, regulations, regulations and circulars in accordance with the administrative procedures followed and related to the work of the commission.
• Ensure that the owner or operator of the facility complies with the Environmental Protection Law, its executive regulations, and environmental decisions and requirements.
• Follow up on projects implemented by the Environment Public Authority within the scope of Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate, in coordination with the relevant authorities, in accordance with the regulations and laws regulating this.
• Preparing technical and time programs and plans to carry out monitoring and inspection work within the scope of Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate.
• Prepare technical reports that include the quality of deviations in the application and propose appropriate solutions.
• Follow up the implementation of management plans approved by the director of the department.
• Take all measures for field transfer to achieve the goals.
• Preparing periodic progress reports.
• Prepare the department's work plan and annual budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Al-Farwaniya Governorate Inspection Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Continuous monitoring of pollutants in the external environment, the internal environment, workplaces, industrial facilities, governmental and recreational sectors, and residential areas within the geographical range of Al Farwaniyah Governorate, and studying the surrounding environmental conditions according to the work plan for the work of supervision and inspection in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Monitoring the implementation of laws, regulations, regulations and circulars in accordance with the administrative procedures followed and related to the work of the commission.
• Ensure that the owner or operator of the facility complies with the Environmental Protection Law, its executive regulations, and environmental decisions and requirements.
• Follow up on projects implemented by the Environment Public Authority within the jurisdiction of Al Farwaniyah Governorate, in coordination with the concerned authorities, in accordance with the regulations and laws regulating this.
• Preparing technical and time programs and plans to carry out monitoring and inspection work within Al-Farwaniya Governorate.
• Prepare technical reports that include the quality of deviations in the application and propose appropriate solutions.
• Follow up the implementation of management plans approved by the director of the department.
• Take all measures for field transfer to achieve the goals.
• Preparing periodic progress reports.
• Prepare the department's work plan and annual budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Al-Ahmadi Governorate Inspection Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Continuous monitoring of pollutants in the external environment, the internal environment, workplaces, industrial facilities, governmental and recreational sectors, and residential areas within the geographical scope of the Ahmadi Governorate, and studying the surrounding environmental conditions according to the work plan for the work of supervision and inspection in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Monitoring the implementation of laws, regulations, regulations and circulars in accordance with the administrative procedures followed and related to the work of the commission.
• Ensure that the facility owner or operator is in compliance with the Environmental Protection Law, its executive regulations, and environmental decisions and requirements.
• Follow up on projects implemented by the Environment Public Authority within the scope of the Ahmadi Governorate, in coordination with the relevant authorities, in accordance with the regulations and laws regulating this.
• Preparing technical and time programs and plans to carry out monitoring and inspection work within the scope of the Ahmadi Governorate.
• Preparing technical reports including the quality of deviations in the application and proposing appropriate solutions.
• Follow up the implementation of management plans approved by the director of the department.
• Take all measures to move the field to achieve the goals.
• Preparing periodic progress reports.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Al-Jahra Governorate Inspection Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• To monitor continuously pollutants in the external environment, the internal environment, workplaces, industrial facilities, governmental and recreational sectors, and residential areas within the geographical scope of Al-Jahra Governorate, and study the environmental conditions surrounding them according to the work plan for the work of supervision and inspection in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Monitoring the implementation of laws, regulations, regulations and circulars in accordance with the administrative procedures followed and related to the work of the commission.
• Ensure that the owner or operator of the facility complies with the Environmental Protection Law, its executive regulations, and environmental decisions and requirements.
• Follow up on projects implemented by the Environment Public Authority within the scope of Al-Jahra Governorate, in coordination with the relevant authorities in accordance with the regulations and laws regulating this.
• Preparing technical and time programs and plans to carry out monitoring and inspection work within the jurisdiction of Al-Jahra Governorate.
• Prepare technical reports that include the quality of deviations in the application and propose appropriate solutions.
• Follow up the implementation of management plans approved by the director of the department.
• Take all measures for field transfer to achieve the goals.
• Preparing periodic progress reports.
• Prepare the department's work plan and annual budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Environmental Monitoring Affairs Sector

Tasks and Specializations:

• Suggest strategies and plans related to the environmental control sector and follow up on their implementation.
• Implementing the decisions, systems and regulations issued by the General Manager in the fields related to the activities of the Environmental Control Sector.
• Holding periodic meetings according to a specific program with directors of departments of the Environmental Control Sector, to discuss, research and study on the progress of work, and to submit the results of those meetings to the General Director.
• Supervising the departments and centers affiliated with it, monitoring the implementation of their activities, and submitting periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the sector to the general manager.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the sector, present it to His Excellency the Director General, and implement it after its approval.
• Follow up the implementation of Law No. (42) for the year 2014 and its amendments, while supervising the implementation of the regulations, decisions and recommendations issued by the Director General and the Board of Directors in this regard, in cooperation and coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Providing the necessary suggestions for the proper functioning of the work and addressing the gaps in it.
• Supervising the preparation of a plan for the rehabilitation and follow-up of environmental activities, including consulting offices, environmental laboratories, and multi-activity bodies.
• Propose plans and programs necessary to implement the strategies, policies, and goals set by the Board of Directors in the field of environmental protection.
• Monitoring the implementation of environmental specifications and requirements that must be met in the projects.
• Preparing recommendations, specifications and requirements to protect the environment and the health of citizens from pollution risks in coordination with other parties.
• Submit periodic reports on the sector's activities to the General Manager.

Deputy Director General Office for Environmental Monitoring Affairs

Tasks and Specializations:

• Implementing and organizing procedures for receiving all correspondence, official and confidential mail, personal mail and documents received for the office of the Deputy General Manager for Environmental Control Affairs, sorting and classifying them and presenting them to the Deputy General Manager for Environmental Control Affairs, and distributing correspondence to the relevant units in accordance with his sovereign instructions and after exporting them.
• Providing legal, administrative and technical support to the Deputy General Manager for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Carry out all audit work and audit it before submitting it to the Deputy General Manager for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Follow up the implementation of all recommendations and decisions taken, and ensure that the required actions are carried out in accordance with the approved plans and programs.
• Providing a complete base of laws, decisions, regulations and circulars required by the authority’s work and organizing them in files so that they can be referred to when needed.
• Performing office filming, packaging, and binding works.
• Organizing and arranging procedures for receiving guests and auditors of the Deputy General Manager for Environmental Control Affairs, and arranging and scheduling appointments, visits, meetings and meetings related to his sovereignty in coordination with the competent authorities, in accordance with the instructions.
• Follow up the completion of administrative matters for the office's employees and complete their job transactions in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Collecting and preparing statistical data and periodic reports of the Deputy General Manager for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Maintaining files, records, correspondence and notes related to the activities of the department.
• Preparing and writing memos, reports and letters at the request of the Deputy General Manager for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Executing the communications and correspondence works (phone calls - telegrams - mail - fax - email).
• Meeting the office needs of administrative and office supplies.
• Preparing annual reports on the department's work.

Environmental Data Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Managing environmental databases, supervising their production, updating and providing them to all parties.
• Prepare, compile, analyze, and keep charts, data, and statistics, and provide them with different entities.
• Establishing and managing an environmental data bank, developing systems and applications attached to managing environmental data and putting them in the required image to support the decision-making process.
• Preparing the annual environmental performance report in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Coordination with various departments regarding the establishment of monitoring and control systems for their projects and affiliated sites, and linking them with the authority directly.
• Determining the mechanism of data exchange between the different authorities and linking it with the environmental monitoring information system in the authority.
• Setting development plans for information and data systems and supervising their implementation.
• Coordination with the various authorities regarding the unification of environmental standards and standards.
• Managing, analyzing and interpreting data to be able to manage and reduce potential risks and improve conditions.
• Preparing programs and time plans to collect, sort and verify the information.
• Strengthening the means of cooperation with the relevant local, regional and international institutions regarding environmental data, standards and indicators.
• Prepare reports on deviations and suggest appropriate solutions.
• Study the environmental situation, evaluate and follow up the environmental situation, and determine the potential impacts in coordination with the various authorities.
• Study and implement comprehensive environmental surveys for different environments in order to achieve enhanced databases and improve environmental decision-making.
• Participate in building national capacities and supporting educational and research programs in the field of environmental protection.
• Preparing explanatory frameworks and notes related to the application of environmental standards and requirements, studying them and comparing them with the conditions and standards appropriate for the Kuwaiti environment.
• Follow up on reports on local environmental conditions and prepare periodic reports thereon.
• To suggest studies of environmental and natural risks in the short and long term and prepare reports on the results of these studies in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Preparing, managing, following up and developing the national plan for environmental data management and ensuring its application in a manner that achieves the integrity of databases and improves the capabilities of the authority to take decisions.
• Preparing and developing the official environmental portal for the State of Kuwait in a way that guarantees the quality of the information provided.
• Preparing periodic reports and submitting them to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed management budget for the department and present it to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.

Environmental Databases Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Managing environmental databases, supervising their production, updating and providing them to all parties.
• Preparing, compiling, and storing diagrams, data, maps, and statistics, and providing the various departments and agencies with them.
• Establishing and managing an environmental data bank, developing systems and applications attached to managing environmental data and putting them in the required image to support the decision-making process.
• Setting development plans for information and data systems and supervising their implementation.
• Study and implement comprehensive environmental surveys for different environments in order to achieve enhanced databases and improve environmental decision-making.
• Preparing, managing, following up and developing the national plan for environmental data management and ensuring its application in a manner that achieves the integrity of databases and improves the capabilities of the authority by taking decisions.
• Prepare the department's work plan and budget and present it to the department manager.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Environmental Statistics, Standards and Indicators Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• To contribute to preparing explanatory frameworks and notes related to the application of environmental standards and requirements, as well as with regard to environmental data.
• Study the environmental conditions and standards and compare them with the conditions and standards appropriate for the Kuwaiti environment.
• Evaluating the general situation with regard to environmental standards and setting a timetable for its development.
• Coordination of efforts inside and outside the authority to develop environmental standards and requirements for all sectors of environmental work in a manner that enables the follow-up of local and global change in this field in light of the enormity of the responsibility for issuing and following environmental standards.
• Study, define and approve the environmental indicators concerned with determining the state of the environment, in cooperation with the departments of the authority and the state institutions concerned.
• Developing a system to exchange environmental information between the departments of the authority.
• Developing a system to exchange information between the authority and relevant government agencies.
• Analyzing the charts and data and issuing the statistics of the concerned authorities.
• Spreading the environmental awareness necessary for all establishments in the state regarding the regulations, requirements and environmental standards issued by the authority, in cooperation and coordination with the competent authorities.
• Reviewing environmental reports issued by the concerned authorities and comparing them with environmental standards and requirements, and proposing appropriate solutions in the event of deviations.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Environmental Evaluation & Follow up Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Study the environmental situation, follow up on the local and regional environmental situation, and prepare periodic reports thereon.
• Evaluating the environmental situation in the light of environmental data, standards and indicators and identifying potential impacts in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Preparing the annual environmental performance report in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Establishing and defining a comprehensive process that includes a detailed assessment and analysis of the state of the environment in all its sectors and all environmental systems, including a qualitative and quantitative determination of the set of drivers or drivers, the identification of different pressures, the identification of environmental and health effects (Impacts), and a description of environmental indicators Characterization of the situation in all environmental sectors, thus determining how to respond (Responses) and developing the necessary action plans to improve the state of the environment.
• Proposing forward-looking studies of environmental, natural and industrial hazards from the reality of environmental reports in cooperation with the Environmental Emergency Department.
• Relying on methodologies applied globally, regionally and locally, and updating them whenever required.
• Spreading the necessary environmental awareness and providing data to the population periodically, documented and transparently through the official environmental portal of the State of Kuwait, "Our Environment".
• Supporting sound environmental decision-making based on accurate and effective assessment of the state of the environment.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Environmental Emergency Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Preparing an emergency plan to face environmental disasters that includes the potential risks of all hazards causing environmental disasters, including sudden release of chemicals, radioactive, biological and genetic materials, fires and explosions that could lead to dangerous emissions and cause the sudden destruction of sensitive environmental systems.
• Preparing an emergency plan to manage the natural and environmental risks resulting from human activities.
• Measurement and evaluation of environmental risks and crises.
• Establishing and modernizing the environmental emergency room and providing everything that contributes to the speed of environmental decision-making in times of emergency, including hardware, software and databases.
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• Developing strategies for managing environmental risks and emergencies in the short and long term. These strategies include transferring risks to another entity, avoiding them and reducing their negative effects.
• To inventory and classify types of disasters and environmental risks, propose an executive action plan and allocate a budget to face these disasters and their effects.
• Developing plans to combat marine pollution with oil or otherwise.
• Receiving and studying environmental complaints, verifying them and determining their severity in coordination with other parties.
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• Follow-up and study of international and regional environmental problems and crises.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Chemical Safety Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Establish clear policies and adopt procedures to ensure permanent control of all activities related to chemical safety department.
• Establish procedures and requirements to be taken into account for handling chemicals.
• Participate in the development of a national plan to implement the SAICM methodology.
• Follow up the international procedures for registering hazardous chemicals thereof, regulating their circulation and notifying the concerned authorities inside the country.
• Follow-up and study of chemicals before they are imported, such as notifications from countries regarding the export of dangerous materials to the State of Kuwait.
• Follow up on complaints of chemical handling and misuse.
• Follow up the international procedures and studies for registering chemicals, regulating their circulation, and notifying the concerned authorities thereof.
• Establishing recommendations and requirements for maintaining the health and safety of citizens from the risks of exposure to chemicals in coordination with the departments and authorities concerned.
• Exchanging information locally and abroad about toxic substances and the risks involved.
• Preparing reports, statistical tables and questionnaires for chemicals.
• Strengthening national capacities to deal with chemicals.
• Contributing to the implementation of the environmental awareness media plan at the Environment Public Authority by giving lectures - publishing the educational instructions through the print and audio media regarding safe handling of chemicals and in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Contribute to preparing national cadres from graduates of scientific colleges and applied institutes on chemicals management.
• Participation in national campaigns between the departments of the Environment Public Authority or with the relevant authorities in the country on local environmental issues of a chemical nature.
• Coordination with the Planning and Evaluation Department of the environmental impact on development projects regarding the use of chemicals in industrial activities to study them and determine the extent of their danger to the environment and its living and non-living components and the possibility of using alternatives.
• Participation in conferences and workshops locally and abroad to follow developments in chemicals handling.
• Preparing the national chemical safety program and setting plans and programs to implement it with the relevant authorities in the country.
• Follow-up to international agreements and prepare a national plan for them such as: (Stockholm Convention for Persistent Organic Pollutants, Rotterdam Convention, Minamata Agreement).
• Qualification, approval and follow-up of the companies specialized in the work of inspection, auditing and conformity with chemicals as determined by the committee.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operating budget for the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department.

Chemical Licenses Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Approving requests to import chemicals according to the actual needs for industry, scientific research, legal commercial activity, studies, universities, institutes, and schools.
• Follow-up and coordination with government agencies to release chemicals according to their nature and use in accordance with environmental requirements and standards.
• Follow-up and study of the primary chemicals to be approved before they are imported.
• Implementing procedures related to importing and exporting restricted and prohibited substances in international and regional protocols and agreements.
• Work to harmonize and standardize the classification and labeling of chemicals.
• Developing programs to reduce or prevent risks and develop alternatives (for example: preventing the import and use of foam).
• Follow up the implementation of the provisions of the Environmental Protection Law No. 42 of 2014 and its amendments and regulations and any amendments thereto.
• Setting the work plan for the department's employees in the customs outlets, determining the tasks and responsibilities assigned to them, following up their performance, and setting solutions to all obstacles and problems facing them in the performance of government actions related to chemicals in the country regarding updating approved and approved release lists periodically.
• Granting approvals to issue licenses for importing chemicals to companies in accordance with the articles of the executive regulations.
• The development of electronic systems for granting licenses and releases of chemicals in order to contribute to facilitating, accelerating and providing an opportunity for electronic linking between the relevant government agencies in the implementation of electronic services and the exchange of information.
• Training of national cadres from graduates of scientific colleges and applied institutes on chemicals management.
• Contributing to the implementation of the environmental awareness media plan at the Environment Public Authority by giving lectures - publishing the educational instructions through the print and audio media regarding safe handling of chemicals in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Follow up on the correspondence of the qualified companies and the customs papers regarding the seizure of a container and the obstacles that face the release operations.
• Preparing the proposed annual work, budget and operating plan for the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department.

Chemicals Production and Handling Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Establish procedures and requirements to be taken into account for handling chemicals.
• Participate in the development of a national plan to implement the SAICM methodology.
• Participate in inspecting the stores of chemicals importing companies to verify the extent to which they meet the requirements to be observed when properly storing chemicals according to what was stated in the executive regulations.
• Follow up the international procedures and studies for registering chemicals in general and regulating their circulation inside the country.
• Follow-up and research of complaints regarding chemical handling and misuse.
• Establishing recommendations and requirements for maintaining the health and safety of citizens from the risks of exposure to chemicals in coordination with the relevant government departments and agencies in the country.
• Follow-up on developments related to chemicals management in accordance with international law, environmental agreements on chemicals and the strategic approach to international chemicals management.
• Participation in national campaigns between the departments of the Environment Public Authority or with the relevant authorities in the state on local environmental issues through preparing integrated plans for monitoring them and finding appropriate solutions for them.
• Contributing to the implementation of the environmental awareness-raising media plan at the Environment Public Authority by giving lectures - publishing the educational instructions through the print and audio media regarding safe handling of chemicals and in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Contribute to preparing national cadres from graduates of scientific colleges and applied institutes on chemicals management.
• Preparing the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department.

Air Quality Monitoring Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Carrying out continuous monitoring and evaluation to maintain air quality and noise and reduce harmful effects from pollutant gas emissions.
• Determining and approving the sites for monitoring and following up the air quality in the national monitoring network or the supporting networks affiliated with the public or private authorities in the State of Kuwait, and determining the types of pollutants that must be monitored in each station in addition to the devices supporting the pollutant monitoring operations.
• Supervising the process of monitoring air quality or noise data that is monitored through monitoring and monitoring air quality or noise quality stations, and taking necessary measures when their concentrations are higher than normal limits or the approved standards mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Reviewing air quality or noise reports for the internal environment and the external air received from public and private agencies and taking measures to ensure that the data do not exceed the permissible limits mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Setting and updating air quality standards and coordinating with the various bodies to take the necessary measures when they exceed those standards.
• Coordination with the concerned authorities to prepare and develop the national strategy for air quality management in the State of Kuwait, as well as setting work plans and timetables necessary to implement and update them every five years.
• Supervising the preparation, development, implementation and updating of the national plan for the disposal of ozone-depleting substances in cooperation with the relevant authorities and regional and international organizations.
• Disseminating air quality indicators and informing the public about air quality levels.
• Follow-up to international agreements and protocols related to climate change and the protection of the ozone layer.
• Establishing, developing and modernizing a national network for continuous monitoring and control.
• Preparing technical specifications and requirements for calibration and maintenance of monitoring stations and monitoring air quality to ensure that they continue to operate around the clock with the required accuracy and according to the specifications specified in the manufacturing manual and the guidance of internationally accredited organizations concerned with that.
• Submit an annual report on the progress of the national plan for the disposal of ozone-depleting substances.
• Regional cooperation and participation in the Montreal Protocol meetings.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed operating budget for the department and present it to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Preparing periodic reports and submitting them to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.

Air Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Reviewing and updating the air quality and noise standards for the internal environment and the external air in a manner that is in line with the national conditions and the international and guiding standards for the countries of the Cooperation Council every five years.
• Determining and approving the sites for monitoring and following up the air quality in the national monitoring network or the supporting networks affiliated with the public or private authorities in the State of Kuwait, and determining the types of pollutants that must be monitored in each station in addition to the devices supporting the pollutant monitoring operations.
• Determining and approving the locations of noise monitoring stations in the national monitoring network or the supporting networks of the public or private authorities in the State of Kuwait, and taking measures to ensure that they do not exceed the limits mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Preparing a study every ten years indicating the extent of coverage of the national air quality monitoring network and the supporting networks of populated areas and the need to expand their scope.
• Follow up the air quality or noise data that is monitored through monitoring stations, monitor the air quality or noise and approve it, and take the necessary measures when their concentrations are higher than normal limits or the approved standards mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Reviewing air quality or noise reports for the internal environment and the external air received from public and private agencies and taking measures to ensure that the data do not exceed the permissible limits mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Review the section on air quality for environmental impact assessment reports that are received by the Environment Public Authority and work needed to ensure that pollutants or noise do not exceed the permissible limits and standards contained in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Prepare plans and programs for monitoring the air quality of the internal environment of public and private entities and audit their commitment to the permissible standards for air quality in the interior environment through detection, collection of samples, analysis, and review of the records of air quality in their internal environment.
• Study the complaints received by the department regarding air quality or noise and take the necessary measures to prevent pollutants or noise from exceeding the limits or the permissible standards mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• To suggest means to develop and improve the services of monitoring stations and monitoring air quality.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Prepare periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and present them to the director of the department.

Emissions Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Review and update the emission limits for air pollutants from fixed and mobile sources in a manner consistent with the national conditions and the international and indicative borders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, every five years.
• Reviewing air pollutant emission reports received by the Environmental Public Authority from public and private agencies to ensure that they do not exceed the limits mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Preparing plans and programs for monitoring air pollutant emissions sources and checking their compliance with the permissible limits for air pollutant emissions by reviewing their emissions records.
• Preparing plans and programs for monitoring the vehicle inspection centers and checking the procedures for periodic inspection of vehicles and the extent of the authorities' commitment to implement the executive regulations related to the emission limits of vehicles.
• A study of cases of exceeding air quality standards or noise received from the external air monitoring department after pollutants or noise have been attributed to their sources, and a necessary procedure to ensure that emissions or noise do not affect air quality in a way that exceeds the standards and emission limits mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Review the section on air pollutant emission for environmental impact assessment reports received by the Environmental Public Authority and work necessary to ensure that pollutants or noise do not exceed the permissible limits and standards contained in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Study the complaints received by the department regarding emissions or noise and take the necessary measures not to exceed pollutants or noise to the permissible limits or standards mentioned in the executive regulations of the Environmental Protection Law.
• To suggest means to develop and improve emissions monitoring operations from their fixed and mobile sources.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Climate Change Monitoring Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Follow-up to international agreements and protocols related to climate change, and international cooperation and coordination with its secretariat, and regionally with Gulf, Arab and international blocs, in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Participate in preparing and supervising the implementation of the national strategies and obligations of the State of Kuwait towards international agreements related to climate change.
• Cooperate with international bodies and organizations to take advantage of the programs, activities and support they provide under the framework of climate change agreements and the protocols attached to them, especially in attracting investments and projects that achieve sustainable development principles.
• Acting as the executive secretary in the country for the voluntary mechanisms and programs included in the conventions related to climate change and the protocols attached thereto.
• Developing the capabilities of state employees through holding courses and workshops, and preparing qualified negotiators to represent the State of Kuwait in international climate change conferences and negotiations.
• Spreading environmental and societal awareness of everything related to the subject of climate change through seminars and issuance of publications, scientific books and studies on climate change in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Express an opinion in the section on the impact of the project on climate change in studies of the environmental impact of industrial and development projects, and set appropriate conditions for them.
• Prepare the operational budget, prepare the annual executive plan for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities, work and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Ozone Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Follow-up to the international agreements and their protocols related to the protection of the ozone layer.
• Implementing the obligations of the State of Kuwait towards the international agreements concerned with the protection of the ozone layer and its protocols issued by the meetings of the state’s parties and the executive committees of the agreement.
• Preparing, developing, implementing and updating the national plan for the disposal of ozone-depleting substances in cooperation with the relevant authorities and regional and international organizations.
• Oversee and follow up on the plans of the implementing agencies operating under the United Nations programs related to the protocols concerned with the protection of the ozone layer and the funds financed for related projects.
• Preparing and developing the systems that would implement the obligations of the State of Kuwait in the phasing out of substances bound by the protocols concerned with the protection of the ozone layer and the procedures for prior control of their import and export operations.
• Preparing and developing the database of the State of Kuwait for ozone-depleting substances and substances restricted within the protocols concerned with ozone layer protection and related industries in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Providing technical and administrative support to the sectors used for ozone-depleting substances in order to prepare and implement projects to shift towards using ozone-friendly materials.
• Spread environmental awareness on all issues related to ozone layer protection.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Air Stations Maintenance Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Prepare specific and detailed technical specifications and requirements for the supply and installation of monitoring and monitoring air quality stations required by the External Air Quality Monitoring Section, according to the instructions of the internationally accredited organizations.
• Prepare technical specifications and requirements for calibration and maintenance of monitoring stations and monitoring air quality to ensure that they continue to operate around the clock with the required accuracy and according to the specifications specified in the manufacturing manual and the guidance of internationally accredited organizations concerned with that.
• Determining the calibration and maintenance programs for stations, spare parts, consumables, calibration gases, their numbers, quantities and their exchange dates.
• Receiving stations after supplying and installing them, as well as spare parts, consumables and calibration gases for calibration and maintenance operations and storing them, in addition to receiving and storing consumed parts that have been removed from the analysis devices in monitoring stations and following up air quality during periodic or emergency maintenance periods.
• Follow up the calibration and maintenance procedures implemented by the competent authority in this regard and ensure that the operations are carried out according to the instructions of the manufacturing manual to ensure the stations are working with the required image and accuracy around the clock.
• Participation of the state’s private and public entities in determining the technical requirements and specifications for the supply and installation of monitoring stations, monitoring air quality, and defining calibration and maintenance programs.
• Checking the records and calibration and maintenance procedures for the air quality stations and emission measuring devices of the public and private authorities to ensure that they operate in the required manner and accuracy.
• Checking the records and procedures for calibration and maintenance of air quality stations before and during the implementation of environmental impact assessment studies for projects received by Environment Public Authority.
• To suggest means to develop and improve the services of monitoring stations and monitoring air quality.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Environmental Activities Qualification and Follow up Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Determine the mechanism of work between the authority and the licensing authority represented by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Municipality of Kuwait to approve those offices and companies, while updating that mechanism periodically, and coordinating with the relevant authorities.
• Follow-up on the work of a committee (accrediting and qualifying laboratories and consulting firms working in the field of environmental consulting, or preparing environmental impact studies, environmental auditing or environmental services).
• Granting offices, consulting firms, environmental laboratories, and multiple activities operating in the environmental field a certificate accredited by the authority and its inclusion in the list of offices and consulting firms approved by the Environmental Public Authority.
• Setting the basis for the evaluation and classification of offices and environmental consulting firms to work in the areas of environmental consulting, studies of environmental impact assessment, assessment of the current environmental situation and environmental audit in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Update the accreditation booklet in accordance with the emerging requirements, provide it in a CD and sell it to those who wish.
• Study the data of applicants for accreditation or renewal, and make field visits to verify the validity of the submitted data, in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Submit the data of the applicants for accreditation, renewal or update to the competent authority, with a recommendation to this effect attached.
• Approving, renewing and updating the data of the relevant consultative offices, environmental laboratories, and multiple bodies working in the field of environmental consulting or preparing environmental impact assessment studies.
• Follow-up of collection of fees for the approval and renewal of environmental consulting offices, environmental laboratories and multi-activity bodies.
• Issuing a list of advisory offices and multi-agency activities that work in the field of environmental consulting, preparing environmental impact assessment studies, assessing the current environmental situation, or environmental auditing and environmental laboratories that are approved by the authority periodically.
• Qualification and classification of companies, offices, laboratories, centers and institutions engaged in any environmental activity.
• Follow-up offices, companies, institutions, centers, environmental advisory laboratories or any bodies practicing any activity, services or consultations in the environmental field, and coordinate with the departments of the Environmental Public Authority concerned with reviewing environmental impact assessment studies in order to evaluate the performance of those offices and companies.
• Preparing guidelines for environmental impact assessment studies for various projects, in coordination with the competent authorities, to assist consultative bodies when conducting studies.
• Review and follow up on the updating of the environmental advisory offices approved in the list of advisory offices on a semi-annual basis.
• Renewing environmental certificates for consulting offices or multi-activity bodies according to the required and specific conditions.
• Preparing studies and plans on the qualification and follow-up of offices, companies, institutions, centers and laboratories engaged in any activity, services or consultations in the environmental field.
• Preparing the department's annual work plan and budget and submitting it to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Prepare periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submit them to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.

Consulting Offices Qualification and Follow up Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Determine the mechanism of work between the authority and the licensing authority represented by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Municipality of Kuwait to approve those environmental advisory offices, updating that mechanism periodically, and coordinating with relevant authorities such as the Supreme Council for Planning and Development and the Kuwait Society of Engineers.
• Update the accreditation booklet in accordance with the emerging requirements, provide it in a CD and sell it to those who wish.
• Study the data of applicants for accreditation or renewal, and make field visits to verify the validity of the submitted data, in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Submit the data of applicants for accreditation, renewal or update to the competent authority, with a recommendation to this effect attached.
• Evaluating and classifying the consulting offices engaged in any environmental activity according to the scientific experience, the number and experience of environmental cadres working for the office, the number and type of studies carried out by the office, and the number and type of technical devices and equipment used by the office.
• Follow-up to the consultative offices operating in the environmental field, and coordinate with the departments of the Environmental Public Authority concerned with reviewing environmental impact assessment studies in order to evaluate the performance of those offices.
• Follow-up of collection of fees for the approval and renewal of consulting offices.
• Carry out field visits to the sites and headquarters of advisory offices working in the environmental field.
• Preparing studies and plans on the qualification and follow-up of consulting offices operating in the environmental field.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Environmental Laboratories Qualification and Follow up Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Determine the mechanism of work between the authority and the licensing authority represented by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Municipality of Kuwait to accredit these laboratories, updating that mechanism periodically, and coordinating with relevant bodies such as the Supreme Council for Planning and Development, the Society of Kuwaiti Engineers and Kuwait University.
• Update the accreditation booklet in accordance with the emerging requirements, provide it in a CD and sell it to those who wish.
• Evaluating and classifying the environmental laboratories involved in any environmental activity according to the scientific experience, the number and experience of the environmental cadres working with the laboratory, the number and type of studies carried out by the laboratory, and the number and type of technical devices and equipment used by the laboratory.
• Carry out field visits to the locations and headquarters of environmental laboratories.
• Follow up the collection of fees for the approval and renewal of laboratories and environmental centers.
• Study the data of applicants for accreditation or renewal, and make field visits to verify the validity of the submitted data, in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Submitting the data of applicants for accreditation, renewal or update to the competent authority, with a recommendation to this effect attached.
• Follow up the analytical laboratories working in the environmental field, and coordinate with the departments of the General Environment Authority concerned with reviewing environmental impact assessment studies in order to evaluate the performance of those laboratories.
• Preparing studies and plans on the rehabilitation and follow-up of environmental laboratories.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Multi-Activities Agencies Qualifications and Follow-up Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Determine the mechanism of work between the authority and the licensing authority represented by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Municipality of Kuwait to accredit these bodies, while updating that mechanism periodically, and coordinating with the relevant bodies such as the Supreme Council for Planning and Development and the Kuwait Society of Engineers.
• Update the accreditation booklet in accordance with the emerging requirements, provide it in a CD and sell it to those who wish.
• Evaluating and classifying the multiple agencies involved in any environmental activity according to the scientific experience, the number and experience of the environmental cadres working with them, the number and type of studies carried out by the entity, and the number and type of technical devices and equipment used by the entity.
• Study the data of applicants for accreditation or renewal, and make field visits to verify the validity of the submitted data, in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Submit the data of applicants for accreditation, renewal or update to the competent authority, with a recommendation to this effect attached.
• Follow-up of collection of fees for the approval and renewal of multi-activity entities.
• Follow-up of the multiple activities that work in the environmental field, and coordinate with the departments of the General Authority for the Environment concerned with reviewing environmental impact assessment studies in order to evaluate the performance of those bodies.
• Carrying out field visits to the sites and headquarters of the multi-agency activities operating in the environmental field.
• Preparing studies and plans on the qualification and follow-up of those bodies with multiple activities in the environmental field.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Waste Management Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Setting clear policies and adopting procedures to ensure permanent control of all activities related to waste department.
• Monitor the sources of waste and work to control them, and propose methods for dealing with these wastes in a manner that ensures the preservation of the environment.
• Follow up the implementation of international and regional agreements in the field of transport, management, handling and disposal of waste in general and hazardous waste in particular.
• Preparing and following up the implementation of the integrated national strategy for waste management in a country and setting timetables for monitoring its implementation with the concerned authorities.
• Evaluating the general situation of waste department in the country and setting timetables for its development.
• Define the sectors and fields that require preparation, development and improvement of procedures and requirements for waste in the country periodically, in cooperation with the departments of the authority and the relevant state institutions.
• Updating and developing the environmental recommendations and requirements necessary to preserve the health and safety of citizens from the risks of exposure to waste in coordination with the relevant departments.
• Exchanging information on methods of treating and disposing all kinds of waste.
• Work to train national cadres in the field of waste department.
• Coordination with the concerned departments to raise environmental awareness in the field of waste department.
• Strengthening national capacities in waste department.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed management budget for the department and present it to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Prepare periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the administration and present them to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.

Waste Disposal Facilities Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Follow-up on the implementation of the integrated national strategy for waste department in the State of Kuwait with regard to waste disposal facilities of all kinds, and set up time-tracking programs to implement them with the relevant authorities.
• Follow-up studies and developments in the field of recycling and treatment of all kinds, according to environmental law and international and regional agreements.
• Implementation of the Basel Convention for the transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous waste, by setting up mechanisms to follow up the export of hazardous waste across borders.
• Define methods of disposal of all kinds of waste.
• Expressing an opinion on the studies of the environmental impact of waste disposal facilities and setting the necessary environmental conditions for them in order to reduce pollution resulting from the disposal of waste by burning, burying, or any other types of waste disposal techniques.
• Make field visits to follow up on recycling companies and facilities and ensure that environmental requirements are applied.
• Setting lists for recycling companies and coordinating with the competent department to display them on the electronic page of the Environment Public Authority, and updating them periodically in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Coordination with the concerned authorities to follow up the methods of recovering closed buildings in the country or rehabilitating them.
• Obligation of the concerned authorities to dispose of municipal waste and complete the infrastructure for recycling work for this waste.
• Carry out field visits and inspection campaigns for waste disposal facilities of all kinds (incinerators, industrial and sanitation treatment plants, waste landfills, ... etc.) to verify the application of environmental requirements for waste treatment systems.
• Coordination with the concerned departments to raise environmental awareness in the field of waste department.
• Training of national cadres in the field of waste disposal.
• Strengthening national capabilities in the field of recycling, treatment and disposal of waste of all kinds.
• Updating environmental requirements and developing work mechanisms in the department to raise work efficiency.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Municipal Waste Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Following up on the implementation of the integrated national strategy for waste management in the State of Kuwait with regard to municipal waste, and setting time programs to monitor its implementation with the relevant authorities.
• Provide technical opinion with regard to all kinds of household waste (hazardous, non-dangerous), agricultural waste, slaughterhouse waste, sewage protectors as well as construction waste. Establish a mechanism for handling, storing and transporting this waste.
• Expressing an opinion on the studies of the environmental impact and setting the environmental conditions for dealing with all household waste (hazardous, non-dangerous), agricultural waste, slaughterhouse waste, sewage protectors as well as construction waste.
• Participate in inspection campaigns and periodic field visits to slaughterhouses, and verify the application of environmental requirements for dealing with waste.
• Coordination with the Kuwait Municipality to develop awareness systems and programs to encourage waste minimization and screening.
• Develop mechanisms to deal with household hazardous waste (expired medicines, batteries, etc.) in coordination with the relevant authorities.
• Setting systems and mechanisms for inventory, determining the quantities of household waste generated in the country, and determining treatment methods for disposal in coordination with the departments of the administration.
• Follow up of licenses for collection, transportation, waste disposal and the transport mechanism..
• Follow up with the bodies that generate waste and provide us with the details of the handling, storage, transport and disposal mechanism.
• Research and follow-up on complaints related to household and agricultural waste, slaughterhouse waste, sewage protectors as well as construction waste.
• Participating in accrediting advanced companies to work in the field of transporting municipal solid waste, agricultural waste, slaughterhouse waste, and construction waste.
• Coordination with the concerned departments to raise environmental awareness in the field of household waste department.
• Training of national cadres in the field of household waste department.
• Strengthening the national capabilities in dealing with all kinds of household waste (hazardous, non-dangerous), agricultural waste, slaughterhouse waste, sewage protectors as well as construction waste.
• Updating environmental requirements and developing work mechanisms in the department to raise work efficiency.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Industrial & Commercial Waste Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Follow-up to the implementation of the integrated national strategy for waste management in the State of Kuwait with regard to industrial and commercial wastes (hazardous and non-hazardous, solid and liquid, sludge, and asbestos) and set timetables for follow-up to their application with the relevant authorities.
• Provide technical opinion regarding industrial and commercial wastes of all kinds (hazardous, non-dangerous, solid, liquid, sludge, and asbestos), and establish a mechanism for handling, storing and transporting these wastes.
• Expressing an opinion on studies of the environmental impact of factories and development projects, and setting environmental requirements for systems for dealing with industrial and commercial wastes of all kinds.
• Provide environmental opinion in the reports on the removal of asbestos from existing buildings, and set their own environmental requirements.
• Participate in inspection campaigns and periodic field visits to factories and oil facilities, and other development projects, and verify the implementation of environmental requirements for dealing with waste.
• Establish systems and mechanisms for inventory, determine the quantities of industrial and commercial waste generated in the country, and define treatment methods for disposal in coordination with the department section.
• Follow-up of licensing for collection, transportation, waste disposal and the transport mechanism.
• Follow up with the bodies that generate the waste and provide us with the details of the mechanism of handling, storage, transport and disposal.
• Searching and following up complaints related to industrial and commercial waste of all kinds (dangerous, non-dangerous, solid, liquid, sludge).
• Participation in accrediting advanced companies to work in the field of transporting industrial and commercial waste of all kinds (dangerous, non-dangerous, solid, liquid, sludge).
• Coordination with the concerned departments to raise environmental awareness in the field of industrial and commercial waste department.
• Training of national cadres in the field of industrial and commercial waste department.
• Strengthening the national capabilities in dealing with industrial and commercial wastes of all kinds (hazardous, non-dangerous, solid, liquid, and sludge).
• Updating environmental requirements and developing work mechanisms in the department to raise work efficiency.
• Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the director of the department.
• Prepare periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and present them to the director of the department.

Medical Waste Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Follow up on the implementation of the integrated national strategy for waste department in the State of Kuwait with regard to medical waste and set time programs to follow up on its application in cooperation with the relevant authorities in the country.
• Provide technical opinion regarding medical waste in accordance with Resolution No. 6 of 2017 of the executive regulations for managing solid, medical, municipal, and solid wastes of all kinds (hazardous, non-dangerous, solid and liquid) and setting a mechanism for handling, storing and transporting these wastes.
• Expressing an opinion on studies of the environmental impact of health care facilities in the country and setting environmental requirements related to systems for dealing with medical waste of all kinds.
• Carrying out field visits and inspection campaigns periodically to health care facilities of the private and governmental sectors to follow up the implementation of environmental requirements for dealing with medical waste and provide us with the details of the mechanism of handling, storage, transport and disposal.
• Establishing systems and mechanisms for inventory, determining the quantities of medical waste generated in the country, and defining treatment and disposal methods in coordination with the concerned departments of the Environment Public Authority.
• Follow up of the licenses for collection, transportation and disposal of medical waste and the transportation mechanism in coordination with the concerned departments of the Environmental Public Authority.
• Searching and following up complaints related to all kinds of medical waste.
• Coordination with the concerned departments to raise the level of environmental awareness in the field of medical waste department.
• Training of national cadres in the field of medical waste department.
• Strengthening the national capabilities in the field of dealing with medical waste of all kinds.
• The work of updating environmental requirements and developing mechanisms in the department to raise the efficiency of work in the field of medical waste department.
• Preparing and submitting the department's annual work plans in line with the strategic waste department plan.
• Preparing and submitting periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department in the field of medical waste department.

Planning & Environmental Impact Assessment Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Reviewing studies of environmental impact assessment of development and industrial projects proposed by the government, private or joint sector and setting the necessary environmental requirements and requirements when giving environmental approvals for those projects.
• Coordination with the specialized technical departments of the authority to express an opinion on the projects presented to the department, in addition to coordination with the project owners on the projects under study.
• Carrying out field visits to the sites of development and industrial projects presented to the administration with the aim of monitoring and environmental monitoring of these projects to ensure implementation of environmental requirements and controls.
• Coordination with the various state agencies (government, private and joint sector) regarding the commitment to conduct environmental impact assessment studies.
• Preparing guidelines for environmental impact assessment studies for development and industrial projects in all project sectors.
• Determining and following up the collection of fees in return for reviewing the environmental impact assessment studies of projects presented to the department.
• Expressing the environmental opinion regarding the development projects included in the annual development plan for the State of Kuwait that are submitted to the Authority and following up the work mechanism followed regarding procedures for submitting studies for assessing the environmental impact of projects and preparing environmental requirements for them in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Follow up on environmental control plans and environmental monitoring reports that are prepared by the environmental consultancy offices for the benefit of the project owners.
• Coordination with the Public Authority for Industry to reduce procedures and reduce the documentary cycle of environmental approvals for industrial projects, activating the electronic link between them.
• Coordination with the Kuwait municipality and the Public Authority for Industry regarding the settlement of industrial crafts.
• Preparing environmental requirements for the sectors of development and industrial projects.
• Organizing the industrial and crafts areas in the State of Kuwait in coordination with the Kuwait Municipality and the Public Authority for Industry.
• Preparing periodic reports and submitting them to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.
• Prepare the annual work plan and proposed management budget for the department and present it to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.

Environmental Planning Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Study development projects and infrastructure projects that have a limited environmental impact and a clear environmental impact on the environment and that require detailed environmental return studies, reports or forms, while setting the necessary environmental requirements and requirements when giving environmental approvals on those projects, in coordination with the technical departments concerned with the authority.
• To express the environmental opinion regarding the allocation of the sites of the various projects that are received by government and private agencies.
• To make field visits to the sites of the projects presented to him with a view to expressing opinions on them, or to follow-up and environmental monitoring of these projects and to ensure the application of environmental requirements.
• Provide opinion and comments about the projects that are distributed in the subcommittee for public facilities and services emanating from the Kuwait Municipality.
• Follow up the collection of fees for reviewing studies or reports on the environmental impact of the projects presented to the department.
• Study the plans mentioned in the structural plan for the State of Kuwait in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Review periodic environmental follow-up reports for projects in the implementation phase that come from different sectors of the country to clarify the extent of compliance with environmental standards and requirements.
• Coordination with the specialized technical departments in the authority to study the projects presented to the department .
• Follow-up of the environmental management plan for projects and periodic monitoring programs for projects that are prepared by the environmental consulting offices for the benefit of the project owners.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Industrial Projects Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Providing opinion on industrial projects received from competent government agencies, according to their various existing and planned classifications, whether the installations have a significant, medium or limited environmental impact according to the sectors of the environmental and social impact assessment system in the State of Kuwait, and preparing environmental requirements for them before starting implementation of those projects or when making any modifications, additions or expansions to what is existing thereof.
• Review studies of assessing the environmental impact of industrial establishments and crafts to be settled in industrial areas, and granting environmental permits for these projects.
• Carrying out field visits to the sites of factories and industrial crafts in order to follow up the implementation of environmental requirements and controls issued in the guidelines of the Environmental Protection Law.
• Reviewing periodic follow-up reports for industrial projects with a significant environmental impact to follow up on compliance with environmental standards and requirements.
• Coordination with the various state agencies (government, private sector) regarding the environmental and social impact assessment system in the State of Kuwait and holding coordination meetings on it.
• Coordination with the technical departments of the Environment Public Authority to participate in expressing an opinion on the industrial projects presented to the department.
• Training students of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Kuwait University on the work carried out by the department.
• Activating the role of environmental control by inspecting the industrial environmental areas, whereby the department monitors and organizes the new industrial and crafts areas and the newly created pieces in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Express an opinion on the allocation of industrial zones and the settlement of industrial activities in those areas.
• Follow up on the environmental management plan for industrial projects and the periodic environmental monitoring program that are prepared by the consulting offices for the benefit of the project owners.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Prepare periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and present them to the Director of Administration.

Development Projects Section

Tasks and Specializations:

• Expressing an environmental opinion on the development projects of the various state agencies proposed by the government, private or joint sector that have an environmental impact (large - limited - medium) on the environment according to the sectors of the environmental and social impact assessment system in the State of Kuwait, and preparing environmental requirements for it before starting implementation Those projects or when any amendments or extensions are made to existing ones.
• Review studies of assessing the environmental impact of development projects proposed by the government, private or joint sectors, and granting environmental permits for those projects.
• Carrying out field visits to the development projects sites presented to the department with the aim of monitoring and controlling the environment for these projects and ensuring that the environmental conditions and controls set for the projects are applied by the concerned authorities, the investor or the companies implementing the projects.
• Reviewing periodic environmental follow-up reports for projects during implementation that come from different sectors of the country to clarify the extent of compliance with environmental standards and requirements.
• Coordination with the various state agencies (government-private-joint sector) regarding the environmental and social impact assessment system in the State of Kuwait and holding coordination meetings on it.
• Preparing guidelines for environmental impact assessment studies for development projects in all sectors presented to the department in order to assist the consultative bodies when conducting these studies.
• Follow-up of the collection of fees for reviewing the environmental impact assessment studies of the projects presented to the department.
• Follow up on the environmental management plan for projects and periodic environmental monitoring programs that are prepared by the environmental consulting offices for the benefit of the project owners.
• Coordination with the technical departments of the authority and expressing opinions on various topics.
• Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
• Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.

Assets Accounting Department

Tasks and Specializations:

• Recording the financial transactions for purchasing the assets according to the approved classification.
• Record the costs of transport, installation and operation on the original.
• Monitor the inventory and evaluation of fixed assets and record their data in the asset records.
• Adding capital projects under construction after completion to fixed assets.
• Record financial transactions for transferring assets between government agencies.
• Recording capital expenditures on fixed assets.
• Recording financial transactions related to selling assets and closing them in capital gains or losses.
• Recording financial transactions related to write-off of assets and closing them in items of accounting for fixed assets.
• Set settlement restrictions related to depreciation, amortization and entry into force of fixed assets.
• Preparing periodic reports on assets.
• Verifying the correctness of procedures for revaluing assets, preparing settlement restrictions related thereto, recording all capital expenditures according to the new productive age, updating the value of the asset according to the methodology and methods of valuation and amortization of approved assets.

Military National Service Office

Tasks and Specializations:

• Follow-up of the employment and legal status of taxpayers, conscripts and reservists in the ministry, authority or public institution in everything related to the implementation of the provisions of the National Military Service Law.
• Coordination and correspondence with the head of the National Military Service regarding all matters related to the job affairs of duty bearers, recruits and reserves, based on Article (25) of the executive regulations.
• Receive notifications and invitations to perform the national military service addressed to the concerned employees, and communicate them in writing and in person to the employee concerned and sign them, and if this is not possible, he will be handed over to his boss at work, according to Articles (12,12,11,10) of the executive regulations.
• Receive the correspondence of the National Military Service regarding the periods of absence and discontinuance from work and the disciplinary (memorial) disciplinary notes and follow-up, and arrange their legal effects in the competent authorities in accordance with Article (96) of the Army Law No. (32) of 1967 and Articles (10 and 49) paragraphs (1 and 55) of National Military Service Law, Articles (28,24,23) of the Civil Service Law, and Articles (81,60) of the Civil Service System.
• Inform the National Military Service and send a copy of the decision to send each employee assigned, recruited, or reserve in an official mission or course abroad and end it, or the reason for the postponement has disappeared according to Articles (31,20,19,18) of the National Military Service Law and Article (22) clause (5,4) of the executive regulations.
• Notify every taxpayer or reserve of the necessity to notify the National Military Service of any change in his place of residence and his work place within thirty days from the date of the change pursuant to Article (20) of the executive regulations.
• Working to implement the provisions of Articles (33,3) of the National Military Service Law regarding appointees and appointment regulations.
• Inform employees and their officials of the competence of the Intelligence and security branches and the military police, including officers, non-commissioned officers, and individuals, and the authority to control violations and crimes committed in violation of the National Military Service Law, in accordance with Article (47) of the National Military Service Law and Article (7) of its executive regulations.