Requirement One Recommendations Pertaining to Civil society institutions ment to enable them to function according to their articles of association. Text of the Recommendation and Summary of the Response of the Concerned Entities: Issue the legal tools necessary to urge business owners to maintain an appropriate and proper work environment that is suitable for the health status of those suffering from specific diseases, and that their health status is not taken as grounds for discrimination, exclusion or marginalization. 4) Text of the Recommendation: 1) Text of the Recommendation: Issue a new law regulating civil society institutions and their work, reflecting the suitable developments in human rights, and enhance it with all the guarantees that secure the exercise of the right to organize in line with the international human rights instruments, in order to strengthen the independence of these organizations, provide financial and human resources through clear and specific controls, and grant powers to these civil organizations to enable them play their role in the society. Requirement Two Recommendations Pertaining to the Environment 1) Text of the Recommendation: Put more efforts into educating the civil society institutions and the public about the executive authority concerned with environmental issues and violations with the need to spread awareness about the entity concerned with receiving reports and complaints pertaining to environmental violations and the necessary procedures in this regard. 2) Text of the Recommendation: Amend Article (43) of the Law on Social Associations and Clubs, Cultural and Private Bodies Working in the Field of Youth promulgated by Decree-Law No. (21) of 1986 to ensure lifting the participation ban on some citizens in the membership of the boards of directors of civil organizations being inactive members in dissolved political associations.  Summary of the Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture’s (previously Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning) response: The concerned entity stated that awareness is one of the pillars of waste management in the Ministry and that public awareness workshops take place annually to raise awareness of the importance of sorting and segregating waste at source and recycling as well as to introduce the Department’s waste recycling projects. 3) Text of the Recommendation: Provide more logistical support to civil society institutions through the provision of adequate financial support to ensure their sustainability, together with designating specific locations to be their headquarters for a token pay- 36