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Managing Federal Public & Private Records Entities Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Records Management & Archival Science Session 1 September 4, 2023 Welcome back, Sultan Syllabus & Expectations Let’s t...

Managing Federal Public & Private Records Entities Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Records Management & Archival Science Session 1 September 4, 2023 Welcome back, Sultan Syllabus & Expectations Let’s take a look at the syllabus together Students are expected to enjoy this course…people learn better about subjects and activities they enjoy doing Public Institutions Introduction Can you name any public institutions…? Aren’t you a member of the public…? What does “public” mean? What is the opposite of public…? Image from NCCPE website ‐ UK I. Some Basic Definitions Institution: an organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose. Google I. Some Basic Definitions Public Institutions: institutions created, controlled, and operated by the government. Let’s look at the picture…we can tell this is a government building, how? II. Types of Public Institutions What are the types of public institutions? We know there are public and private institutions because that’s the name of the course… II. History of UAE Institutions Let’s go travel back in time… What do you Know about Trucial Emirates? II. History of UAE Institutions Founded in 1971 Federation of 7 emirates What does “Federation” mean? II. History of UAE Institutions Federation is the coming into one Unity of multiple parts Federation: a country consisting of a group of individual states that have control over their own affairs but are controlled by a central government for national decisions. (Oxford Learner’s Dictionary) III. The Federal Government With the establishment of the UAE, we have one federal government What other elements became one?  III. The Federal Government One country One cabinet One constitution National Council National anthem Federal ministries One capital One government One currency A president One Central Bank A vice president The Supreme One army Federal Court  III. The Federal Government The Supreme Federal Council (Is this an institution…?) The UAE Constitution (Is this an institution…?) Why…? What is the difference? IV. The Constitution The political system of UAE is a constitutional federation The constitution was ratified in July 18, 1971 The constitution contains 152 articles distributed among 10 parts IV. The Constitution The constitution has 10 parts: 1. The Federation and its aims 2. Social and economic basis 3. Public freedoms, rights and duties 4. Federal authorities 5. Federal legislations 6. The Emirates 7. Allocation of legislative, executive and international jurisdiction between the federation and the emirates 8. Financial affairs 9. Armed and security forces 10. Concluding articles IV. The Constitution We will focus now on part 7 of the Constitution Allocation of legislative, executive and international jurisdiction between the federation and the emirates Definitions Legislative: making laws Executive: putting laws into effect Jurisdiction: (within their jurisdiction = within their legal authority) V. Part 7 of the Constitution Part 7 of the constitution delimits the boundaries between Federal and Local authorities (Articles 120‐125) V. Article 120 The Federation shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the following affairs: 1) Foreign affairs 2) Defense and federal armed forces 3) federal Security 4) Security, order, and governance in the capital 5) Federal employees and judiciary 6) Federal finance, taxes, fees, and dues 7) Federal public loans 8) Postal, telegraphic, telephone, and wireless services 9) Building of federal roads 10) Aeronautic control and issuance of airplane and pilots licenses 11) Education 12) Public health and medical services 13) Exchange and currency 14) Measures, dry measures, and weights 15) Electricity services 16) Federal nationality, passports, residence and immigration 17) Federal property 18) Consensus and statistics related to federal matters 19) Federal information V. Article 121 (added in 2004) The Federation shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the following affairs: 1) Labor relations and social security 2) Real estate and expropriation in the public interest 3) Extradition of criminals 4) Banks 5) Insurance of all kinds 6) Protection of agriculture and animal wealth 7) Major legislations 8) Protection of intellectual, technical and industrial property and copyright 9) Printing and publishing 10) Import of arms and ammunitions 11) Other aeronautic affairs 12) Delimitation of territorial waters 13) Organizing free‐zone areas V. Article 122 “The Emirates shall have the jurisdiction in all matters not assigned to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federation in accordance with the provisions of the two preceding articles.” VI. Federal and Local Governments It is from part 7 of the UAE Constitution that we have the delimitation of jurisdiction between federal and local governments. In the next session, we will learn about local institutions VII. Federal Institutions According to Article (45) of the UAE Constitution, there are five Federal branches. They are: 1) The Supreme Federal Council 2) The President and Vice President 3) The Cabinet 4) The Federal National Council 5) The Federal Judiciary VII. Federal Institutions Questions 1) Who are the members of The Supreme Federal Council? 2) Who are the President and Vice President of UAE? 3) Who are the members of the UAE Cabinet? 4) What is the Federal National Council? 5) What is the highest court in UAE? VII. Federal Institutions Answers 1) Rulers of the 7 emirates 2) Ruler of Abu Dhabi and Ruler of Dubai, why? 3) The Federal Ministers 4) The Parliament 5) The Supreme Federal Court