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.