CABINET WATCH- New ministerial committee to regulate public companies’ contracts: The Madbouly Cabinet signed off on setting up a ministerial committee tasked with creating a system to regulate public sector companies’ contracts and agreements during its weekly meeting on Thursday, according to a statement. The committee will be headed by the prime minister, and will be responsible for putting in place a strategy to create and develop the new system. During the meeting ministers also:

• Ratified decisions taken by the Supreme Committee for Compensation (which was set up to oversee the disbursement of compensation to contractors and other suppliers and public service providers);
• Approved amendments to the National Railways Authority law;
• Approved decisions from the cabinet’s engineering committee to increase direct order agreements for housing and education projects.