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Abu Dhabi, 19th January 2024: The United Arab Emirates is hosting the 57th meeting of the permanent technical committee for civil retirement and social security authorities in the GCC region, which will be held in Dubai from 22nd to 24th January 2024 at the Marriott Hotel Al Jaddaf, Dubai.


Representatives and participants from civil retirement and social security authorities from across the GCC region will be attending the meeting to discuss Technical Committee governance work, updating the unified system for extending protection, initiatives to update the comparative study of civil retirement and insurance systems in the GCC countries, electronic connectivity amongst authorities, as well as training and qualification initiatives. 


The meeting will highlight latest developments in international cooperation initiatives, the development mechanisms for collecting contributions between authorities, and the promotion and marketing processes for the Civil Retirement Funds Award, as well as the unemployment project and other new initiatives.


An introductory meeting will be held on the sidelines, bringing together business owner representatives and GCC citizens working in the UAE and delegations from countries participating in the protection extension meeting, to raise the level of insurance awareness about the system, while discussing opportunities and challenges related to the registration and end-of-service gratuity for UAE-based GCC citizens, and the latest decisions and developments in the laws by which they are subject to. The meeting will be held on Wednesday 24th January 2024 at the same hotel from 10:00am to 1:00pm.


It is worth noting that the unified system for extending insurance protection system for GCC citizens was issued by a decision released from the Supreme Council of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the GCC region in its 25th session, which was held in Bahrain in December 2004, where the decision confirmed the extension of the social insurance umbrella through a mandatory form for GCC citizens working outside their countries in any of the GCC countries, stipulating that each country is committed to extending this umbrella to its citizens who work outside their country (in other GCC countries) across the government and private sectors.


Under the system, GCC citizens working in any of the GCC countries are insured by employers in the government and private sectors, provided that the provisions of the pension and social security law in their countries apply to them, and that the employee is required to have one of the GCC nationalities, and to work with an employer who is subject to the provisions of the Civil Retirement Law in his/her country, so that upon ending his/her service, a retirement pension or an end-of-service gratuity is granted based on the rules and provisions of the laws by which they are subject to in the employee’s home country.