6/17/2015 0:00
BAGHDAD
held the Ministry of State for Provincial Affairs and the House of Representatives yesterday, deliberative meeting to discuss amendments to the law of the provinces No. 21 of 2008.
The meeting was in it, too, considering the issue of resolving the transfer of administrative and financial powers to the provincial councils, as well as discuss what has been accomplished by the committees responsible for the development of Amendments to this law the middle of next month in August.
He said the legal adviser to the Ministry of Qasim Khudair Abbas "morning": "The meeting aims to complete the work of coordinating committees tasked to discuss with the ministries and representatives of local councils based on the legal matter, and article 45 of the provinces 21 Law for the year 2008 rate ".
He said Abbas, that the Ministry of State represented by the Secretariat of the Supreme Coordination Commission and its Minister Secretary General of the Commission, meets every 60 days on a regular basis to discuss how the transfer of powers, noting that the launch was from the province of Basra, where the government announced there support for the question of enhancing decentralization as a realistic commitment and where the interests of the Blad.oaota this meeting, chaired by Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Ahmed Abdullah al-Jubouri, and was attended by a number of ministers and representatives of local government councils, as a prelude to resolve the committees charged with the transfer of administrative and financial powers from central ministries to local administrations and the completion of tasks middle of the month after next, in order to strengthen decentralized system approved in the government program.
According to Article 19 of the Act, the transfer of powers and financial competencies to the provinces is during a period of time up to 15 August next.
The government official, confirmed that "in view of the importance of the matter, we have begun the transfer of powers and the application of Article 45 of the Code of procedures provinces.
refers in this context, "it began the Ministry of State formation of committees to negotiate with eight ministries are municipalities, education, health, youth and sports, labor and social affairs, electricity and housing, in coordination with the representatives of local councils at the rate of one week for each ministry for trading and the signing of the transfer of powers and recommendations."
According to Abbas, that section powers have been transferred with immediate effect, as has been the diagnosis of 25 illegal material intersect with the Constitution and laws and the need for legislation, which may be postponed for a certain period by mutual agreement in order to avoid the intersection in powers between the President of the Provincial Council and Federal Minister, or the multiplicity of references and sources of the resolution.
As He stressed the need to take the provincial right to the new decentralized administrative system, adding that "most of the ministries have succeeded in transferring its powers was resolved with the mechanism will be in circulation for the transfer of the remaining powers."
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