This original policy summary was written for the guide. The authority, city, policy, deadlines, and requirements are fictional, and the text is a language model rather than legal advice. It illustrates contemporary Modern Standard Arabic (formal/administrative) for readers who need to identify what a term means, who must act, what is published, and where an exception stops.
A policy summary is not a contract copied into shorter sentences. It translates an operative scheme into a public-facing account while preserving scope. Stable definitions prevent reference from drifting; يجب على and على...مصدر assign duties; direct passives foreground regulated material; إذا and شريطة أن state conditions; and administrative collocations package recurring procedures without hiding the responsible body.
The underlying drafting contrasts are treated in Legal and Treaty Style, while the directive system is mapped in Imperatives in Regulations and Legal Instructions.
The complete policy summary
خلاصة سياسة تجريبية لإتاحة بيانات المرافق العامة
لأغراض هذه السياسة، يقصد بعبارة البيانات التشغيلية المعلومات المتعلقة بمواعيد الخدمة وأوقات الانقطاع ومؤشرات الأداء، ولا تشمل العبارة أي بيانات تكشف هوية الأفراد.
يجب على كل إدارة أن تحدث سجلها مرة كل ثلاثين يوما، وأن تحيله إلى وحدة البيانات للمراجعة وفقا للإجراءات المعتمدة.
تنشر النسخ المعتمدة على الموقع الإلكتروني العام بصيغة قابلة للقراءة الآلية خلال مدة لا تتجاوز عشرة أيام عمل.
ويستثنى من النشر وصف الثغرات الأمنية. كما تستثنى البيانات التي يمكن ربطها بشخص محدد، باستثناء الملخصات الإحصائية المشتقة منها بعد إزالة عناصر التعريف.
يجوز تأجيل النشر مدة لا تتجاوز خمسة عشر يوما إذا ثبت أن النشر الفوري سيعطل معالجة حالة طارئة، شريطة أن توثق وحدة البيانات سبب التأجيل ومدته.
وتراجع السياسة بعد اثني عشر شهرا من بدء تطبيقها، ثم ينشر تقرير موجز عن نتائج المراجعة.
Faithful translation
Summary of an Experimental Public-Utilities Data-Access Policy
For the purposes of this policy, “operational data” means information relating to service schedules, outage times, and performance indicators. The term does not include any data that reveal individuals' identities.
Every department must update its register once every thirty days and refer it to the Data Unit for review in accordance with the approved procedures.
Approved versions are published on the public website in a machine-readable format within no more than ten working days.
Descriptions of security vulnerabilities are excluded from publication. Data that can be linked to a specific person are also excluded, except for statistical summaries derived from those data after identifying elements have been removed.
Publication may be delayed for no more than fifteen days if immediate publication is shown to impede the handling of an emergency, provided that the Data Unit documents the reason for and duration of the delay.
The policy is reviewed twelve months after implementation begins, after which a concise report on the review's findings is published.
A definition fixes reference
لأغراض هذه السياسة، يقصد بعبارة البيانات التشغيلية المعلومات المتعلقة بمواعيد الخدمة وأوقات الانقطاع ومؤشرات الأداء.
li-ʾaghrāḍi hādhihi s-siyāsa(h), yuqṣadu bi-ʿibārati l-bayānāti t-tashghīliyyati l-maʿlūmātu l-mutaʿalliqa(h) bi-mawāʿīdi l-khidmati wa-ʾawqāti l-inqiṭāʿi wa-muʾashshirāti l-ʾadāʾ.
For the purposes of this policy, operational data means information relating to service schedules, outage times, and performance indicators.
The opening frame limits the definition to this policy; it does not claim that البيانات التشغيلية has one universal meaning. Passive يقصد بـ is conventional (formal/legal/administrative) because the document, rather than a personal speaker, establishes the term. The delayed content المعلومات is nominative, and its feminine-singular participle المتعلقة agrees with a non-human plural.
The coordinated iḍāfas define three included domains. Because the list follows one participle and one preposition بـ, each member belongs inside المعلومات المتعلقة بـ.... Repeating the defined term later is safer than substituting an attractive synonym such as البيانات الخدمية, which might appear to create a second category.
ولا تشمل العبارة أي بيانات تكشف هوية الأفراد.
wa-lā tashmalu l-ʿibāratu ʾayya bayānātin takshifu huwiyyata l-ʾafrād.
The term does not include any data that reveal individuals' identities.
This exclusion belongs inside the definition. Explicit subject العبارة prevents the null subject from being misread as “the policy” or “the information.” In the relative clause, feminine-singular تكشف agrees with non-human plural بيانات. The policy therefore excludes identifiable data before later specifying a narrow exception for anonymized summaries.
Obligation names the duty-bearer and governed action
يجب على كل إدارة أن تحدث سجلها مرة كل ثلاثين يوما، وأن تحيله إلى وحدة البيانات للمراجعة وفقا للإجراءات المعتمدة.
yajibu ʿalā kulli ʾidāratin ʾan tuḥadditha sijillahā marratan kulla thalāthīna yawman, wa-ʾan tuḥīlahu ʾilā waḥdati l-bayānāti lil-murājaʿati wafqan lil-ʾijrāʾāti l-muʿtamada(h).
Every department must update its register once every thirty days and refer it to the Data Unit for review in accordance with the approved procedures.
Impersonal يجب على assigns the duty to كل إدارة. Both coordinated verbs fall under أن, so تحدث and تحيل are subjunctive. Their feminine-singular null subject is the individual department selected by كل; attached ـها and ـه keep الإدارة and السجل distinct.
The deadline phrase uses decade ثلاثين followed by singular accusative يوما. وفقا للإجراءات المعتمدة is a bureaucratic collocation meaning that the approved procedures govern the review. It does not mean merely “according to what someone said.” This sentence is dense, but each phrase has one clear role: actor, two duties, frequency, recipient, purpose, and procedural standard.
A direct passive foregrounds the regulated material
تنشر النسخ المعتمدة على الموقع الإلكتروني العام بصيغة قابلة للقراءة الآلية خلال مدة لا تتجاوز عشرة أيام عمل.
tunsharu n-nusakhu l-muʿtamadatu ʿalā l-mawqiʿi l-ʾiliktrūniyyi l-ʿāmmi bi-ṣīghatin qābilatin lil-qirāʾati l-ʾāliyyati khilāla muddatin lā tatajāwazu ʿasharata ʾayyāmi ʿamal.
Approved versions are published on the public website in a machine-readable format within no more than ten working days.
Unvocalized تنشر could be active “she/it publishes” or passive “are published.” The fully vocalized reading تُنْشَرُ and nominative النسخ establish the direct passive. This is legitimate here because the affected documents and public result are the policy's topic; the preceding sentence already assigned preparation to departments and review to the Data Unit.
Non-human plural النسخ takes feminine-singular المعتمدة, while preposed passive تنشر is also feminine singular. مدة لا تتجاوز... sets an outer limit, not an approximate goal. In عشرة أيام عمل, masculine يوم selects gender-polar عشرة, and أيام عمل is a compact institutional iḍāfa.
Two nested exceptions must not collapse into one
ويستثنى من النشر وصف الثغرات الأمنية. كما تستثنى البيانات التي يمكن ربطها بشخص محدد، باستثناء الملخصات الإحصائية المشتقة منها بعد إزالة عناصر التعريف.
wa-yustathnā mina n-nashri waṣfu th-thagharāti l-ʾamniyya(h). kamā tustathnā l-bayānātu llatī yumkinu rabṭuhā bi-shakhṣin muḥaddad, bi-stithnāʾi l-mulakhkhaṣāti l-ʾiḥṣāʾiyyati l-mushtaqqati minhā baʿda ʾizālati ʿanāṣiri t-taʿrīf.
Descriptions of security vulnerabilities are excluded from publication. Data that can be linked to a specific person are also excluded, except for statistical summaries derived from those data after identifying elements have been removed.
The first direct passive يستثنى introduces one excluded category headed by masculine وصف, which licenses singular masculine agreement. A second sentence deliberately repeats the passive as feminine singular تستثنى before non-human plural البيانات. Relative التي resumes those data, and attached ـها is the object of nominalized ربط.
Keeping باستثناء inside the second sentence narrows only the identifiable-data branch: statistical summaries derived from those data may still be published after identifiers are removed. Participle المشتقة and attached منها make the summaries' source explicit, while بعد إزالة عناصر التعريف states the safeguard. A single coordinated sentence would leave readers wondering whether the exception also permits publication of security-vulnerability descriptions.
Permission, emergency condition, and documentation safeguard
يجوز تأجيل النشر مدة لا تتجاوز خمسة عشر يوما إذا ثبت أن النشر الفوري سيعطل معالجة حالة طارئة، شريطة أن توثق وحدة البيانات سبب التأجيل ومدته.
yajūzu taʾjīlu n-nashri muddatan lā tatajāwazu khamsata ʿashara yawman ʾidhā thabata ʾanna n-nashra l-fawriyya sayuʿaṭṭilu muʿālajata ḥālatin ṭāriʾa(h), sharīṭata ʾan tuwaththiqa waḥdatu l-bayānāti sababa t-taʾkhīri wa-muddatah.
Publication may be delayed for no more than fifteen days if immediate publication is shown to impede the handling of an emergency, provided that the Data Unit documents the reason for and duration of the delay.
يجوز grants limited permission; it does not impose a delay. The permission is bounded by duration, evidentiary condition إذا ثبت, and positive safeguard شريطة أن. Heavy أنّ after ثبت makes النشر accusative; light أنْ after شريطة makes توثق subjunctive.
The final coordinated objects سبب التأجيل ومدته prevent a vague administrative record: both reason and duration must be documented. Attached ـه in مدته refers to masculine التأجيل, not to feminine حالة. This is exactly the kind of antecedent a policy should make easy to recover.
Review and publication close the accountability loop
وتراجع السياسة بعد اثني عشر شهرا من بدء تطبيقها، ثم ينشر تقرير موجز عن نتائج المراجعة.
wa-turājaʿu s-siyāsatu baʿda thnay ʿashara shahran min badʾi taṭbīqihā, thumma yunsharu taqrīrun mūjazun ʿan natāʾiji l-murājaʿa(h).
The policy is reviewed twelve months after implementation begins, after which a concise report on the review's findings is published.
The two direct passives preserve process focus: policy review, then public reporting. ثم encodes sequence, not mere addition. In اثني عشر شهرا, the unit portion carries the oblique form required after بعد, while singular شهرا is the specification. Attached ـها in تطبيقها refers unambiguously to السياسة.
The phrase تقرير موجز عن نتائج المراجعة is more transparent than a long chain such as تقرير نتائج مراجعة تطبيق السياسة. The preposition عن exposes the report–results relation, while the iḍāfa نتائج المراجعة remains short and familiar.
Comprehension and production
- List the defined term, its three included domains, and the category excluded from it.
- Identify the duty-bearer, the two required acts, the reviewer, and the governing procedure.
- Explain why تنشر and تراجع must be read as passives here despite their unvocalized ambiguity.
- Draw the scope of the general publication exclusion and the narrower statistical-summary exception.
- Which expressions impose a duty, grant permission, set a condition, and require a safeguard?
For production, draft a six-sentence summary of a fictional library-laptop policy. Define one term, assign one duty with يجب على...أن, state one direct passive rule, create a narrowly scoped exception, give a conditional permission with يجوز...إذا, and require written documentation with شريطة أن. Mark every deadline precisely.
Common Mistakes
Using future tense as an obligation
❌ ستحدث كل إدارة سجلها مرة كل شهر.
Insufficient if the intended force is a binding duty—future sa- can describe a plan or prediction.
✅ يجب على كل إدارة أن تحدث سجلها مرة كل شهر.
yajibu ʿalā kulli ʾidāratin ʾan tuḥadditha sijillahā marratan kulla shahr.
Every department must update its register once each month.
Reading an unvocalized passive as an active with no subject
❌ تنشر النسخ المعتمدة، أي إن النسخ تنشر شيئا آخر.
Incorrect reading in this policy—the approved versions are the affected subject of passive tunsharu.
✅ تنشر النسخ المعتمدة بعد أن تراجعها وحدة البيانات.
tunsharu n-nusakhu l-muʿtamadatu baʿda ʾan turājiʿahā waḥdatu l-bayānāt.
The approved versions are published after the Data Unit reviews them.
Letting an exception float over two rules
❌ يمنع نشر كلمات المرور ووصف الأعطال وإحصاءات الاستخدام إلا بعد إخفاء الهوية.
Ambiguous—the condition logically fits usage statistics but cannot make passwords publishable merely by anonymization.
✅ يمنع نشر كلمات المرور ووصف الثغرات. ويجوز نشر إحصاءات الاستخدام بعد إزالة عناصر التعريف.
yumnaʿu nashru kalimāti l-murūri wa-waṣfi th-thagharāt. wa-yajūzu nashru ʾiḥṣāʾāti l-istikhdāmi baʿda ʾizālati ʿanāṣiri t-taʿrīf.
Publishing passwords and descriptions of vulnerabilities is prohibited. Usage statistics may be published after identifying elements are removed.
Leaving the defined term to drift
❌ تعرف السياسة البيانات التشغيلية، ثم تسميها لاحقا المعلومات الخدمية والمواد العامة.
Poor controlled drafting—unexplained synonyms may appear to create different categories.
✅ تستخدم الخلاصة عبارة البيانات التشغيلية بالمعنى المحدد في الفقرة الأولى.
tastakhdimu l-khulāṣatu ʿibārata l-bayānāti t-tashghīliyyati bi-l-maʿnā l-muḥaddadi fī l-fiqrati l-ʾūlā.
The summary uses the term operational data in the meaning defined in the first paragraph.
Key Takeaways
- A policy definition fixes reference for this document and should include any category-changing exclusion.
- يجب على...أن names the duty-bearer and governs subjunctive actions; future marking alone does not impose a duty.
- Direct passives appropriately foreground documents, policies, and institutional results when responsibility is otherwise clear.
- Exceptions and conditions must be placed so their scope has one defensible reading.
- Administrative collocations are useful only when they preserve actor, deadline, procedure, and accountability.
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