Meeting of GCC committee for civil retirement begins
Date: 16/09/2012      Time: 01:35:00 PM
 
GCC technical experts started a meeting here on Sunday discussing issues related to the joint electronic system for registration of citizens, namely those with retirement benefits, and means of securing data of the common system. The session is the 27th meeting of the GCC permanent technical committee of the civil retirement and social security, due from September 16 to 18. It is hosted by the Omani Public Service Pensions Fund. The meeting is designed to discuss application of the common system to insurance protection of the private data concerning the GCC citizens, namely numbers and statistics of the pensioners. The meeting will discuss minutes of the fourth meeting of the joint team of technicians and representatives of the permanent commission, that had been hosted by Riyadh, and recommendations of the 9th regular session that had been held in Kuwait. GCC states hold regular meetings for coordination in various fields. They seek to unify regulations and applied systems, such as data storage electronic programs. The GCC which comprises Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Bahrain, was founded in the early 80s for coordination in diverse sectors.