The Prime Minister is following the position of preparing new building requirements and measures to stop building violations

Dr. Mustafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, chaired a meeting via video conferencing technology, to discuss the position of establishing new construction requirements and administrative and legal procedures to address building violations, and work to stop them, with the participation of the Dr. Muhammad Shaker Al-Marqbi, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, and Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Major General Mahmoud Shaarawi, Minister of Local Development, Mr. Mahmoud Tawfiq, Minister of the Interior, Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Assem Al-Jazzar, Minister of Housing, Public Services and Urban Communities, Mr. Al-Qusayr, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, and officials of the Authority Engineering By the Armed Forces and the competent authorities.

The Prime Minister opened the meeting by referring to the work of the commission in charge of studying the requirements of the new building, which aims to ensure full governance of the building permit issuance system, and to determine the places where construction will be allowed. and others in which the building will be frozen for residential purposes.

The Prime Minister affirmed that the new system for obtaining building permits and defining building requirements, with which the building permit will become a binding contract between the state and the licensee, and immediate legal measures will be taken in the event of breach of the conditions for the granting of the license.

Madbouly ordered that a meeting be held no later than 15 days from now, to present the committee’s proposals and recommendations, which was used in its work by the universities of Cairo, Alexandria and Ain Shams.

The meeting dealt with a review of the map of the building system in the Arab Republic of Egypt, which defines the functions and tasks of the authorities interested in this file.

During the meeting, Major General Ihab Obeid, Vice President of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority, presented a report on the status of the determination and execution of planning and construction requirements in the capitals and major cities of the governorates . A comprehensive inventory was examined at the level of the Lower Egypt and Canal governorates, as well as the Upper Egypt governorates, for the number of buildings in violation and the type of each violation.

The presentation also included a statement of strategic and detailed plans at the level of the Lower Egypt and Canal governorates, as well as the Upper Egypt governorates. The opinions of the governments on the problems of the strategic and detailed plans were presented, to work on their study and respond to the pertinent demands. The unified contract form to be standardized for different buildings and units has also been revised, and its issuance begins with a statement of the validity of the site in terms of planning and construction requirements, and the issuance of a building permit.

The representative of the Engineering Authority also presented the number of cases of encroachment on agricultural land in the governorates of the Arab Republic of Egypt, in which construction is prohibited, with the exception of lands on which projects intended for the agricultural or animal production.

The declaration of planning lines was also presented at the level of the Lower Egypt and Al Qanat governorates, as well as the Upper Egypt governorates, including the modification of urban districts for cities, towns, estates and villages, and the finalization of plans. Detailed and urban space for all centers and cities in order to limit construction on agricultural land.

Major General Sherif Saleh, Director of the Department of Military Studies, reviewed the work of the spatial change system in terms of monitoring violations 24 hours a day, indicating that within a month from now the automation of the system will be completed in all the governorates of Egypt, such as Qalyubia and Minya, allowing monitoring and reporting. Moment-to-moment for all infringement cases on the ground, allowing swiftness to address and eliminate them from the start