The World Government Summit 2025 in Dubai witnessed the launching of the first edition of the Global Government Regulatory Forum, in the presence of ministers, government officials, members of the academia, and regulations experts, a report from state media said.
The regulatory forum aims to provide an integrated platform that showcases the best and latest work models related to enacting regulations and evaluating their impact on various sectors.
Her Excellency Maryam Al Hammadi, Minister of State and Secretary General of the UAE Cabinet highlighted in the forum’s opening speech the pivotal role of regulations in governments’ work.
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Al Hammadi also stressed the importance of the continuous development and updating of the legislative systems and showcased some of the UAE’s accomplished milestones in modernizing its legislative system during the past four years, which explains the UAE’s leading global standing in developing and updating government regulations and public policies, the report added.
In his keynote address at the forum, HE Syed Rifat Ahmed, Chief Justice of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, discussed the future of regulations in governments and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on countries’ efforts and programs to support technological changes. His Excellency touched base on the experience of the Republic of Bangladesh in adopting various regulatory models.
The Global Government Regulatory Forum spanned a full day and included four sessions. The first session of the forum Can Legal Systems Be Both Flexible and Sustainable?, and featured His Excellency Abdullah bin Awad Al Nuaimi, UAE Minister of Justice, and His Excellency Dr. Umed Sabah Othman, President of the Diwan of Council of Ministers, Government of Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Their Excellencies discussed innovative legal systems such as hybrid legal systems that rely on both Common and Civil Law, countries that apply civil law with some influences and tools from common law.
The second session of the Global Government Regulatory Forum was The Regulatory Sandbox: A Pillar for Innovation and Shaping the Future of Legislation, which addressed the importance of experimental funds in empowering governments and accelerating legislative modernization and development programs to keep pace with changes, especially in the field of modern technologies, artificial intelligence, and financial technology, and the role of regulatory sandboxes as dynamic tools to enhance innovation while managing risks in rapidly developing sectors such as financial technology, health technology, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and others.
The forum’s third session discussed Artificial Intelligence: Between Caution and Impulse, and was attended by His Excellency Professor Blade Nzimande, Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Republic of South Africa, and His Excellency Maqsoud Cruse, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Institution, UAE.
The fourth and last session of the forum, which focused on Regulatory Impact Assessment: Core Methodology for Enhancing Legislative Efficiency, highlighted models for measuring the impact of regulations on various targeted sectors.
Scott Jacobs, Managing Director, Senior Expert in Legislative Regulation at Jacobs, Cordova & Associates, and Daniel Trnka, Deputy Head of Division, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), shared their experiences and models of work in developing and evaluating regulations, the goals that governments will achieve as a result of applying the best models for Regulation Impact Assessment (RIA), and the contribution of such models to improving the efficiency of the legislative ecosystems.
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