Cairo: A new draft law would impose fines of up to 5 million Egyptian pounds ($205,000) on people who make false weather forecasts through media or provide weather information without a permit.

The Egyptian cabinet approved a law that aims to deregulate the Egyptian Meteorological Authority and imposes fines starting at 100,000 Egyptian pounds on anyone who publishes meteorological data, information or studies and attributes authorship to the EMA. Gives false credit with.

The law also targets those who purchase equipment, meteorological stations, or stations specifically designed to measure solar radiation or ozone without first obtaining EMA approval or in defiance of technical requirements set by the relevant authority.

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According to the law, the court will have the right to confiscate the tools, equipment and instruments used to commit the crime in favor of the EMA.

The draft law gives the EMA the power to grant fieldwork authorizations or permits and provide all kinds of meteorological services locally, regionally and globally, according to standards approved by the World Meteorological Organization.

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It specifies that the organization in question is in charge of disseminating information through various types of media.

The Authority contributes to the encouragement of scientific research in the field of meteorology, in addition to participating in the study and investigation of accidents resulting from climate change.

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The draft law specifies that the EMA is in charge of representing Egypt in international organizations, bodies, associations, conferences and meetings related to meteorology, in addition to keeping track of scientific progress in the field.

Under Presidential Proclamation No. 2934 of 1971, the EMA was established.