Parliament calls for the formation of the Federal Council for Oil and Gas

Parliament calls for the formation of the Federal Council for Oil and Gas






10/14/2013 12:00 AM


Baghdad Shaima Rashid
called on the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary to speed up the enactment of a law of the Federal Council for Oil and Gas decode the interactions between the ministries of oil and electricity and problems with the provinces and the Kurdistan region, telltale on the positive role it is important to be undertaken by the Council in the development of strategic policies for energy.
Commission decision MP Mohammad Qasim, subject to the feasibility of the plans adopted by the ministries of oil and electricity in the area of investment formation of this Council, which is located on his shoulder functions of agreements and conclude contracts and manage file energy under the supervision of the two ministries together.
between Muhammad in an interview for "Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network," that the legislation of the law sword overlap between the ministries of oil and electricity between the provinces and the Kurdistan region, believing that the dispute constitutional on oil and gas will continue to be if not the formation of the Council.
, and added that the improvement in the electrical energy is only half the actual need for domestic consumption and industrial, indicating that access to the sufficiency need to convert File investment in energy from the Ministry of Electricity to local administrations.
, and The Ministry of Electricity has announced the commencement processing of Baghdad and the provinces energy rate (22-24) hours a day following the increase in actual production of energy and crossed the roof of the 11 thousand MW.
For his part, stressed member of the Commission on oil and energy Firat Shara on the importance of expediting the enactment of the Federal Council, returned him from the basic laws and strategic task, especially as it regulates the relations between the federal government and the province.
Shara said in his speech for the "morning": that "this law, like many of the laws Deferred that did not materialize because of Political differences between the blocks or because of a dispute between the Governments of the center and the province and which include oil and gas law, which is one of the important laws because it regulates the relations between the investing companies with oil firms and local governments with the federal government. "
and hinted Shara to the existence of serious intent adoption of this law and the formation of the Council, especially that the formation of this Council will contribute to the state approval to withdraw Alamtaadat between the provincial government and the local and federal governments, stressing that this law needs political consensus and continue dialogue and civilized civilized and then to reach a political consensus.
wished MP only converts this law to the next parliamentary session, and that is legislation during this session, noting that the election law took a lot of time at the expense of other laws, noting that in the event of adoption of the election law, there will be special attention to the federal law for oil.

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