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Delay in approving the oil and gas law for «adapts» with new agreements
Note specializes in financial affairs that the political blocs deliberately delay in approving the oil and gas law until reaching officials in Baghdad and Erbil to consensus, consistent with paragraphs of the law, in the sense to make those agreements are "ruler" and not the law, which varies in the corridors of the House of Representatives since 2007.
But the Kurdish deputies pointed out that the second legislative term will see the adoption of a significant number of broken laws, especially the oil and gas law, to end all oil disputes.
He said Ares Abdullah, head of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary in a press statement on Tuesday, said that "before the committee a lot of laws to legislation, particularly with regard to oil and gas", as a priority for the Commission's work will be to resolve the oil and gas law, who was deported from the previous parliamentary session did not begin ".
Kurdish lawmaker shows that there are laws of the jurisdiction of the Commission exclusively, and other laws involved in the discussion and examination of several parliamentary committees, in reference to the need for consensus between the blocs to pass such laws, especially that the committee chairs also been affected by the quota system.
And the relocation of "Platts" news Italian, on Tuesday, sources in the oil market, "The Italian oil company Eni has booked temporarily ship tanker of crude oil with a capacity of 80 000 tonnes of Iraqi crude oil in the Turkish port of Ceyhan, from Kirkuk crude in the first shipment to be exported after agreement between Baghdad and Erbil. "
The sources added that "shipment of Kirkuk crude is the first of its kind, which are marketed through the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), while not getting the hang of the Italian oil company Eni on this subject."
Bassem Jamil Anton, financial controller and a representative of the private sector, said in a telephone interview with "the world" yesterday that "all agreements should be subject to the laws approved by the House of Representatives, and the decisions of the terms of those agreements are compatible with the legislation of laws."
He warned Anton that are "enactment of the oil and gas law, is commensurate with the terms of the agreements between Baghdad and Erbil," and urged legislation of the law quickly, and then on the basis of which enter into contracts and agreements, which avoids parties other problems in the future in the event of changing governments.
He also warned add exceptions to the law, be compatible and the agreements concluded by the legislation, "saying the law in the case of the" ink on paper. "
Notes Anton keep oil and gas law, the House of Representatives table since 2007 and until now, because of political differences between the central government and the province was the reason the law was passed.
It stresses the need to exploit the speaker remarkable convergence between the political blocs and the three presidencies in the "approval of the law", because of the service for the Iraqi people.
He concluded that this law is supposed to be a collection of politicians do not point a point of contention.
He was Vice Chairman of the Legal Committee Mohsen al-Sadoun said, last Saturday, said that "the legal committee in coordination with other relevant committees will begin during the next Legislative Council, to discuss important laws, which will be in the forefront of the oil and gas law to end the oil disputes between local governments and the provinces and the federal government."
Sadoun said that "the initial oil agreement signed between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government in line with the Iraqi constitution, a step toward proving good faith between the parties to remove past differences."
Adel Abdul Mahdi, the oil minister and he had said during hosted in Parliament last week, that "the responsibility not to enactment of the oil and gas borne by all stakeholders law," explaining that "the absence of law and regulations and controls made it difficult to resolve the oil export issues by the province."
With the Kurdistan Regional Government announced in the same week to reach a comprehensive agreement with the Baghdad government on outstanding problems between the two sides, particularly with regard to the export of oil, and the transfer of funds from the Iraqi budget for the region.
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