Risk Management Report - UAE - Emirates
Risk Management
Issue 1010
- 18 Feb 2016
| 1 minute read
At the top of each emirate are the rulers’ courts and their crown
princes. In practice, only the rulers of Abu Dhabi and Dubai make unilateral decisions and issue emiri decrees; most of the smaller emirates use legislation crafted at federal level. Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah all have executive councils (Dubai’s is relatively informal). Abu Dhabi and Sharjah have national consultative councils, whose usefulness (like the Federal National Council)
has been questioned. For family trees of all seven families, see GSN 1,000.
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