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Item 13 of Decision 4 of 2007 licenses the industrial radiation protection officer in Qatar in two limbs, for large and for small institutions, with different conditions.

Items 15 and 16 of Decision 4 of 2007 license the radioactive material carrier and the maintenance technician in Qatar, and neither contains an experience condition.

Item 17 of Decision 4 of 2007 licenses the scientific research devices supervisor in Qatar: a diploma naming five specialities, the protection course and two years.

Item 14 of Decision 4 of 2007 licenses the field radiation protection officer in Qatar on four conditions: a diploma, the officer course, five years and the medical exam.

Decision 4 of 2007 sets five conditions for a nuclear gauge supervisor licence in Qatar: the degree, two courses, two years of practical experience, and the medical exam.

Item 10 of Decision 4 of 2007 licenses the operator of nuclear gauge calibration devices in Qatar on four conditions, and one word of its academic condition is in doubt.

Item 8 of Decision 4 of 2007 licenses the portable nuclear gauge operator in Qatar on five conditions: a certificate, two courses, one year, and the medical examination.

Item 9 of Decision 4 of 2007 licenses the fixed nuclear gauge operator in Qatar on three conditions only, with no gauges course and no experience condition in the item.

Decision 4 of 2007 sets two paragraphs for a well logging operator licence in Qatar, one for practices before the Law and one after. Both read condition by condition.

Item 6 of Decision 4 of 2007 licenses the assistant well logging operator on four conditions, with no experience condition and no split into two paragraphs.

The four conditions Decision 4 of 2007 sets for a well logging supervisor licence in Qatar: a degree, a specialist course of four weeks, five years, and the medical exam.

Which training each of the three well logging licences in Decision 4 of 2007 names, where the four-week figure sits, and how a logging crew in Qatar is planned around it.

The five conditions Decision 4 of 2007 sets for an industrial radiography supervisor licence in Qatar: degree, Level III, protection course, five years, medical exam.

Item 3 of Decision 4 of 2007 licenses the assistant industrial radiographer on four conditions, with no experience condition in either track.

Decision 4 of 2007 splits industrial entries into practices before the Law and after it, and adds a trainee licence. What the split decides and what it does not.

Decision 4 of 2007 sets two tracks for an industrial radiographer licence in Qatar, one for practices before the Law and one after. Both read condition by condition.

Articles 95 and 96 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: keeping unauthorised persons out, the annual inventory report, and four reporting triggers that must not be merged.

Article 94 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: a quality assurance programme endorsed with the licence application, independent checks of its effectiveness, and eight contents.

Article 97 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: a waste emergency plan approved by the regulator, trained response teams, prior coordination, and when plans may merge.

Articles 98 and 99 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: the mandate to issue non-ionising radiation instructions, and the rule that international standards fill the silences.

Articles 78 to 81 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: three sources of transport rules, the seven contents of the transport instructions, and the exemption below clearance.

Articles 90 to 93 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: discharge within authorised limits, applying to dispose, segregation where waste arises, and twelve features of a store.

Articles 86 to 89 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: keeping generation lowest, five waste classes with their figures, three reuse prohibitions, and returning sealed sources.

Articles 82 to 85 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: six duties of the licensee, a separate waste licence, an independent waste management officer, and the ban on foreign waste.

Articles 71 to 73 of Qatar Executive Regulation 4/2003: procedures that cap potential exposures, three factors when siting a source, and a site evaluation.

Article 76 of Qatar Executive Regulation 4/2003: plans approved by the Ministry, three rings, seven contents, and public information prepared before the accident.

Article 74 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: maintenance and testing for a source whole life, by documented methods. Article 75: readiness and three duties for large sources.

Article 77 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: three cases in which the annual occupational maximum may be exceeded, ceilings as multiples of it, and duties owed to the worker.

Articles 64, 68 and 69 of Executive Regulation 4/2003 cover keeping sources under control, the source register, and what every user of a source must be told.

Articles 61, 62 and 70 of Qatar's Executive Regulation 4/2003 make competence a legal condition: a management system, quality assurance, and licensed supervision.

Article 67 of Executive Regulation 4/2003 sets six duties for organising protection inside a facility, including five written instructions and appointing an RPO.

Articles 63, 65 and 66 of Executive Regulation 4/2003 assume people will err: design against error, build precautionary layers, and keep the engineering standard current.

Article 53 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 places responsibility for public exposure and environmental contamination on the licensee. Article 54 sets the limit with no number.

Article 56 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 lists seven requirements for protecting the public, and Article 55 takes patient companions out of the public dose limits.

Article 57 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 forbids releasing radioactive material beyond approved limits, Article 58 puts environmental monitoring on the licensee.

Articles 45, 46 and 47 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: five quantities every licensee must determine, five calibration requirements, and a quality assurance programme.

Articles 48, 51 and 52 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: what a medical licensee must keep, what he compares his doses against, and the examination that costs a licence.

Articles 49 and 50 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003: the three events a medical licensee must investigate at once, and the five things the investigation has to produce.

Article 39 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 puts eight duties on the licensee for medical exposure, and Article 40 sets the justification test for every patient exposure.

Article 41 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 sets seven requirements for diagnostic exposure, and Article 44 bans vertical fluoroscopy units in chest and internal clinics.

Article 42 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 covers nuclear medicine, breastfeeding and children, and Article 43 covers radiotherapy, including telling the patient the risks.

Article 34 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 lists ten obligations on the licensee towards workers, including treatment at his expense and a report within twenty hours.

Article 35 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 requires four registers, kept confidential for not less than thirty years and shown to the authority a month after year end.

Article 27 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 bars under-eighteens from radiation work above a threshold, except training under supervision. Article 28 covers pregnancy.

Qatar's Regulation 4/2003 states no dose limits in figures: Article 30 gives them to the Committee. Articles 31 and 32 require a written monitoring programme instead.

Article 29 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 requires every licensee to name a Radiation Protection Officer and sets six supervision rules, all addressed to the licensee.

Articles 33 and 37 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 require individual monitoring for every worker who normally works in a controlled area, and quality-assured dosimetry.

Before anyone is put on radiation work in Qatar, Article 25 requires their qualifications verified and their medical fitness examined. What that means for an employer.

Qatar's radiation inspectors hold judicial officer status and may arrive without notice. The seven grounds for a round, what you must produce, and the limits on it.

Article 26 of Qatar Regulation 4/2003 requires the areas around sources to be split into controlled and supervised, sets the threshold, and attaches four duties.

Justification, optimisation and dose limits - the three tests Articles 4, 5 and 6 of Qatar's Executive Regulation apply before and after a licence is granted.

Article 16 of Qatar's Executive Regulation sets a different lead time for every licence type, from two weeks to four months. Article 17 lists the documents each needs.

A refused radiation licence in Qatar can be appealed within one month. A licence can be cancelled on five grounds. And a licensed source cannot be lent to anyone.

Article 6 of Qatar's Law 31/2002 and Article 7 of its Executive Regulation set out five categories of activity that may not be carried out without a licence.

Qatari law divides radiation licences into personal and institutional — and the institutional licence runs in three stages: site, facility, then practice.

Qatar's Executive Regulation allows registration in place of a licence on five conditions, and sets a one-month decision period with a reasoned refusal.

Six continuing obligations on the licensee, inspectors with judicial police status, and the penalties Qatari law sets out in figures.

Why a disused source cannot simply stay in the store, the routes available for dealing with it, and how to avoid the problem when the source is first bought.

What acceptance, performance and constancy testing measure, who signs the report, and how a QA programme protects patient and department alike.

A plain checklist for a clinic with one or two X-ray units in Qatar: licence, responsible person, room, dosimetry, records and common findings.

The scenarios a facility must plan for, what to do in the first half hour, who to notify and in what order, and what belongs in the emergency kit.

How passive and active dosimeters differ, why one does not replace the other, and how to choose for a medical, industrial or field operation.

Which detector suits which job, what a calibration certificate actually tells you, and the daily check that decides whether the reading can be trusted.

Why radium concentrates in pipe scale and sludge, where it appears in oil and gas facilities, and when it becomes a regulated matter.

Enclosure versus site radiography, how the barrier distance is calculated, the equipment that must be present, and who is responsible for what.

What a contractor or soil laboratory in Qatar must have in place to own and use a portable nuclear density gauge, and what to do if one is damaged or lost.

Package types, labels, the transport index, vehicle and driver requirements, and what to do at the roadside when something goes wrong.

Who counts as a radiation worker, the internationally adopted dose limits, how personal dosimeters are used, and the records a facility in Qatar must keep.

When a shielding report is required in Qatar, what an acceptable report must contain, how the calculation is done, and the mistakes that cause rejection.

Licensing a radioactive source in Qatar, step by step: the approvals in order, the documents the file needs, and where applications stall.

Qatar's Decree-Law 31/2002 requires every radiation licence holder to appoint a radiation protection officer. Who must, and the penalty if they do not.