Parliament votes on the printing press and ends the reading of eight laws

Parliament votes on the printing press and ends the reading of eight laws


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Friday 14 June 2019
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Parliament votes on the printing press and ends the reading of eight laws
Baghdad / Al-Sabah
The House of Representatives voted in its 23rd session, chaired by Speaker Mohamed Halboussi last Thursday, in the presence of 186 deputies, to amend the law of civil presses and the decision of deputies and ended the reading of 8 laws while he began reading the Federal Court Law and discussed the file burning of agricultural crops, while Halabousi urged the government to end the file of the agency by June 30.
A statement issued by the media department of the parliament stated that at the beginning of the session, the president of the council recalled in a statement the passing of five years of the greatest challenge in the history of Iraq when thousands of extremists and criminals gathered and took criminality as a way to disseminate their ideas. He praised Al- Sistani, who inspired the Iraqis to fight for the homeland and changed the equation and the Iraqis were able to victory over terrorism in four years.
The Council then voted on a parliamentary resolution that includes the recommendation of the Council of Ministers on 13 June of each year as a national occasion to recite the Fatwa of Jihad and the establishment of popular mobilization to confront the organization of "Da'ash" terrorist and the Council of Ministers to complete the draft law holidays and events based on Article 12 of the Constitution Including paragraph 1 of this resolution.
During the meeting, Vice President of the Council Bashir Haddad discussed the issue of burning agricultural crops in a number of governorates. The interventions of the ladies and gentlemen focused on the importance of the government's responsibility to protect farmers' crops and farmers and marketing centers. Some governorates and the issuance of a parliamentary decision obliges the government to compensate the affected farmers and the families of the martyrs as a result of attempts to extinguish the fire and open an investigation regarding it and announce the results of the investigation and its causes, as well as a public hearing in the presence of the Minister of Agriculture Hosting representatives of the national security, and calling on the government to assume its responsibility in protecting the local product and the exhaustion of all security services and civil defense in the provinces.
For his part, the representative of the government in the House of Representatives Turhan Mufti that the areas that were burned amounted to 40 thousand acres out of 150 thousand acres, some were burned by an actor and other parts were because of the request for electricity, adding that the government is serious to compensate the affected after counting areas according to schedules prepared Stakeholders.
The Council voted on the appointment of Hamid Naim Khudair as Secretary General of the Council of Ministers and Mohammed Abdul Redha Abdul Majeed as Director of the Prime Minister's Office on the basis of a decision of the Council of Ministers and recommend to the Council of Representatives to ratify their appointment, and in the interest of the Council to proceed to end the file management of the joints of the State Acting and abide by Article 58 of the Act General budget for the year 2019.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives also urged the government to end the file of the positions by proxy and commit to a maximum of 30/6 to resolve it. The President of the Council also noted the need to send the names of the candidates to complete the government cab and vote on the ministers of defense, interior, justice and education. In the same regard, the Council completed the vote on the First Amendment Law of the Civil Printing Law No. (5) of 1999 submitted by the Committee of Culture, Information, Tourism and Antiquities due to the dissolution of the Ministry of Information and the Freedom House for printing after 9/4/2019. And to amend the amounts of fines and penalties imposed on violators of the provisions of the law in accordance with the current economic conditions and determine the competent authority to implement the law.
The council postponed the vote on the wording of a resolution on the end of the work of the Board of Commissioners of the Information and Communication Commission of the Committee on Culture, Information, Tourism and Antiquities to a meeting (Saturday).
On another matter, the Council proceeded to read a report and discuss the draft law of the Federal Supreme Court submitted by the Legal Committee. The Council completed the reading of a report and discussion of the draft law on the ratification of the Convention on the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of financial evasion in respect of income tax and capital between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the United Arab Emirates. The Council completed the first reading of the draft law of accession of the Republic of Iraq to the " The Council completed the first reading of the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. The Council concluded the first reading of the draft law Or the Republic of Iraq to the Paris Convention annexed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.
The Council also completed the first reading of the draft law on the ratification of the Convention on the Exemption of Holders of Diplomatic Passports and the Official Service of the Entry License between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Republic of Serbia. The Council completed the first reading of the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the 1995 Grain Trade Agreement. The council completed the first reading of the draft law amnesty from tax sanctions in order to give the taxpayers a chance to resolve their position and settle their crimes and to resolve the tax crimes of the financial authority and the payment of tax amounts in the hands of the taxpayers.
The meeting was then adjourned to Saturday (15/6/2019).

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