Cabinet updates Decision Support Center regulations, allows remote board meetings

Saudi Arabia's Cabinet has amended the regulations governing the Decision Support Center, clarifying its role in providing information to top state bodies and allowing its board to hold meetings and vote remotely.

Cabinet Decision No. 437, dated 23/5/1448H and published in Umm Al-Qura on Friday, revises paragraph (4) of Article (3) to specify that the center's mission is to help provide necessary information to the Royal Court, the Cabinet, the Council of Political and Security Affairs, and the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, enabling them to fulfill their duties.

The decision also removes paragraph (6) from the same article and adds a new seventh paragraph to Article (8), allowing the center's board, when needed and at the discretion of its chair, to hold meetings and vote on decisions remotely using technological means.

The new provision permits the board to make decisions by circulation among its members, provided that all members are consulted, a majority approves, and the decision is presented at the next meeting for inclusion in the official record.

The amendment was made at the center's request to revise Articles (3) and (8) of its regulations, originally issued by Cabinet Decision No. 337 dated 9/8/1437H, and after reviewing the minutes of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs and the recommendation of the Cabinet's General Committee.