Fatwa and Legislation: Enhancing legal awareness in government entities is a cornerstone for consolidating transparency and governance
The Deputy of Fatwa and Legislation emphasizes the importance of enhancing legal awareness in government entities to consolidate transparency and governance through seminars of the Cultural Season.
Translated by Qiyas from الأنباء — Original source
Kuwait’s Deputy Director of the Fatwa and Legislation Department, Advisor Haitham Al-Ruwaid, affirmed on Tuesday the department’s commitment to enhancing legal awareness among specialists and staff in government entities, thereby reinforcing the principles of transparency and governance.
This statement was made by Advisor Al-Ruwaid in an interview with the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on the sidelines of a dialogue seminar titled “The New Public Tenders Law: A Legal Reading of the New Amendments and Their Impact on Government Contracting Procedures,” which is part of the second legal cultural season organized by the Fatwa and Legislation Department.
Al-Ruwaid stated that the Fatwa and Legislation Department, through this seminar and other similar events scheduled during its cultural season, aims to enhance legal awareness and empower specialists and all relevant stakeholders, particularly those working in government entities subject to the Public Tenders Law, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the law’s amendments and achieve its objectives of ensuring flexibility in application, as well as efficiency, transparency, and fairness.
He noted that under the patronage of the department’s head, Advisor Salah Al-Majid, the Fatwa and Legislation Department will continue its second cultural season by hosting its second seminar, which sheds light on the provisions of Law-Decree No. 94 of 2026 amending certain articles of Law No. 49 of 2016 concerning Public Tenders. This decree includes amendments related to regulating the procurement and tendering processes conducted by government entities.
He added that practical implementation of the law revealed several difficulties and operational issues that had negative repercussions on workflow, prompting these amendments to simplify procedures, address the challenges arising from practical realities, and enhance the flexibility of relevant entities in dealing with actual circumstances. This aims to serve the interests of work and ensure that public tender procedures are executed swiftly, efficiently, transparently, and fairly, as clarified in the explanatory memorandum of the aforementioned law.
The legal cultural season of the Fatwa and Legislation Department, which runs until February next year, explores various topics related to legal and legislative affairs through its different seminars, as part of an effort to disseminate legal culture.
The second seminar of the Fatwa and Legislation Department’s second legal cultural season was dedicated to discussing the new Public Tenders Law (“A Legal Reading of the New Amendments and Their Impact on Government Contracting Procedures”). It examined the features of the new law, the main challenges it faces, the limits of coordination mechanisms between government entities, and the primary impact expected from this law on the government contracting system.
Last September, Law-Decree No. 94 of 2026 was issued to amend certain provisions of Law No. 49 of 2016 concerning Public Tenders. The decree aims to simplify procedures, address difficulties and operational issues arising from practical realities, and enhance the flexibility of relevant entities in dealing with actual circumstances, thereby serving the interests of work and ensuring that public tender procedures are implemented swiftly, efficiently, transparently, and fairly.
