Chairman of the Executive Council Resolution No. (23) of 2018 Concerning Additional Competencies of the Department of Culture and Tourism

المادة 1 — في تنفيذ أحكام هذا القرار، يلي ¶

الكلمات والعبارات تُعني المعاني المقابلة لها إلا إذا طالب السياق بغير ذلك:
التراث الثقافي
الإدارة
: الطريقة التي يتم بها الرقابة والإدارة على التراث الثقافي من خلال تحديد وحماية ودراسة وتوثيق واحتفاظ وصيانة وتعزيز واستخدامه بشكل مستدام في الحاضر أو المستقبل.

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الممتلكات الثقافية
: كل الممتلكات المتحركة والثابتة ذات الأهمية للتراث الثقافي للإمارة ومواطنيها، مثل المباني والمعمار والفنون والآثار والتاريخي والديني واليومي والمعالم، والآثار الأثرية والمواقع الأثرية والمعالم، والهياكل المتبقية من التاريخ الطبيعي والجيوولوجي والبيئي والprehistoric، والفنون والوثائق والكتب، وغيرها من الأشياء ذات القيمة الثقافية.
المرافق السياحية
: أي شخص طبيعي أو معنوي عام أو خاص يقوم بأنشطة سياحية.

المادة 2 — In order to achieve its objectives, the Department shall assume the following ¶

additional competencies:
1. Organise exhibitions, conferences and events related to culture and
cultural heritage.
2. Establish and manage public libraries, manage the National Library
based in Abu Dhabi city, sponsor the intellectual and artistic activities
by managing lecture halls, conferences and cultural performances,
organise seminars as well as intellectual, scientific, artistic and
professional meetings, and publish studies and researches in the field of
the Department’s competencies.
3. Preserve archaeological, heritage and historical sites and buildings and
prepare inventory lists for the movable and immovable cultural heritage
properties.
4. Conduct excavation works in the field of archaeology and restoration of
archaeological artefacts, issue the licences required for archaeological
excavations, and supervise the work and activities of the scientific
missions in the field of archaeology.
5. Establish, manage and develop museums and supervise and preserve

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cultural artefacts kept in museums and warehouses.
6. Pursue the violations and infringements on the cultural heritage in the
Emirate, in cooperation with the concerned entities.
7. Monitor the public and private Cultural Property in the field of cultural
heritage.
8. Make all the efforts aiming at observing the national history by collecting
its various documents, registering its heritage, scrutinizing, studying and
publishing it.
9. Encourage and develop tourism in the Emirate, promote and market the
Emirate as a tourist destination, and promoting the tourism investment
opportunities therein locally, regionally and internationally.
10. Lay down the tourism development plan for the Emirate based on the
studies prepared by the Department to this effect and oversee its
implementation.
11. Oversee the activities of Exhibitions in the Emirate, issue the licences
required for such activities and monitor them.
12. Issue the specifications guide for the classification of tourist facilities
and classify them in accordance with the procedures developed thereby.
13. License the tourist transport companies and institutions while observing
the technical specifications determined by the concerned entities.
14. Regulate tourist guide services and others working in the tourism
sector, supervise their qualification and training, and issue their practice
licences.
15. Hold seminars, conferences, exhibitions and festivals aiming at
promoting the Emirate as a hub for specialised international exhibitions,
and promote and stimulate tourism or investment in the tourism sector
inside or outside the Emirate.
16. Establish and manage tourist promotion offices inside and outside the
State.

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17. Any other competencies or duties assigned to the Department by the
Executive Council.

المادة 4 — تُعتبر هذه القرار سارية المفعول من تاريخ إصداره وتنطبق عليه جميع أحكامه ¶

نشرت في الجريدة الرسمية
أصدرتها في أبوظبي
في: 20 فبراير 2018
تتوافق مع: 4 جمادى الآخرة 1439 هـ
محمد بن زayed آل نهيان
الوالي
رئيس مجلس الوزراء