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Controversy of powers flares up between customs and ports
Iraq 04/03/2023
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Saad Al Sammak
Customs officials described Paragraph III of Cabinet Resolution (23150 of 2023) to develop the customs clearance program as controversial and aimed at extracting their incentives.
While specialists in customs integrity affairs called for delay in applying this paragraph, and warned of a hidden conflict between the Ports and Customs Authority regarding the issue of powers.
Customs employees announced their rejection of the overlapping of powers and their denial of incentives to work with sonar devices by organizing a protest demonstration in front of the Ministry of Finance, threatening to enter into an open-ended sit-in until their demands are met to stop the entry and participation of the Ports Authority in customs transaction procedures, while employees of customs centers and directorates across the country expressed their solidarity with their colleagues. at the Authority's headquarters.
A number of employees told "Al-Sabah" the reasons for their demonstrations, as they indicated that the Ports Authority's struggle with customs focused on attempts to implement job replacement for employees of the ports as a substitute for customs employees in committees for detection, estimation, auditing, fees, and intervention in the precise specialization of the work of customs employees. They explained that the sonar document issued by them is one of the main paragraphs in completing the customs transaction in accordance with the customs law, so the responsibility for analyzing and collecting information for what appears on the screen of the device rests with the competent customs employee.
They indicated that more than (50) percent of the incentives given to customs employees who work with low salaries were deducted, and they relied on these incentives that went to the employees of the outlets, calling on the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, to do justice to them and stand with them in restoring their rights and livelihoods and putting an end to the interventions that you carry out. Border Crossings Authority in their work.
For his part, the customs expert, Muhammad Reda Al-Ali, called for the need to wait with the implementation of Paragraph III of Resolution (23150) for the year 2023 regarding the return of ownership of all kinds of sonar devices to the Ports Authority, whose role is supervisory, not executive.
And he indicated that combating corruption in customs helps to achieve it by following the monitoring and follow-up mechanisms for information from the supervisory authority represented by the Border Crossings Authority and the security services, in a way that supports the concept of the legal framework that defines the relationship between internal control of customs and the bodies of other countries responsible for combating corruption or prosecuting the corrupt, such as the Crossing Authority. and the Anti-Corruption Authority and the police.
Al-Ali noted the importance of the amended (Arusha) statement of the World Customs Organization on good governance and integrity in customs, as it included 10 principles that must be included in any national program for customs integrity, and the sixth principle of it stipulates audit and investigation, as it can be done by implementing a set of monitoring mechanisms. Appropriate oversight, internal and external audit programs, balancing these mechanisms, and deterrence mechanisms designed to discover incidents of corruption and take disciplinary or judicial measures against the workers involved in it.
For his part, Dr. Kazem Al-Fartousi believes that there is a hidden conflict of powers between the Border Crossings Authority, customs and ports, the shipping company, taxes, health and the environment.
He stated that the conflict over powers is concentrated between the Ports and Customs Authority, since the ports began their work in accordance with Law No. (30) of 2016.
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