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A new draft of the oil and gas law to parliament
Oil field in Kirkuk
12.08.2011
Samira Ali Mandi
Despite the importance of a oil and gas, Iraq still does not have a law regulating this vital sector. The push to postpone the adoption of this law for four years, the Energy Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives to submit a draft of a new law, hoping to contribute to raising the level of Iraq's production of crude oil, and solve many problems, most notably the dispute between the KRG and the federal government on oil investment in the region .
Iraqi Council of Representatives and during Thursday's meeting decided to postpone the first reading of the draft of the new law, and expect Congress to be discussed next week. The House of Representatives warned the government earlier this month that he would approve a new oil law has been delayed considerably if the government continued to impede the primary legislation, which sees investors basic guarantee of stability. The head of parliament Osama Najafi, saying that the Energy Commission representative proposed the new draft and if the government continued to postpone the law of oil and gas in Iraq Vsaamada parliament ahead with the adoption of the new draft law. Iraqi MP Mohammed Salman said that the Council decided during Thursday's session to postpone the first reading of the bill to receive the further discussions and exchange of views for approval, stressing that the law will pass the presence of consensus or political than others. The issue of oil contracts concluded by the Kurdistan Regional Government, where disagreement between Baghdad and Erbil over the past years, especially since the Iraqi government refused to recognize these contracts, which described it as a illegal, and hopes politicians and specialists to solve the new bill if passed these differences. Member of the Commission on oil and gas, MP for the Kurdistan Alliance bloc Bayazid Hassan explained to Radio Free Iraq that the draft new law to ensure joint management of the file of oil between the federal government, regions and provinces, pointing out that includes the formation of a tripartite committee comprising the Minister of Iraqi oil, and Chairman of the Commission on oil and gas representative, the Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region, to examine the contracts entered into by the Government of the Territory. Bayazid Hassan also pointed out that it was reducing the number of members of the Federal Council for Oil and gas in the new draft law, and that the fields oil-producing and discovered no longer belonging to the Iraqi National Oil Company as they were in the draft law before. agencies Arab News quoted Adnan al-Janabi, head of the oil and energy in the Iraqi parliament confirmed the importance of restructuring the Iraqi National Oil Company and the need for a federal law for oil and gas. The Iraqi government approved In 2007, a draft law of oil and gas in Iraq's new but has encountered opposition in parliament and was once again the government to enter some amendments. Ali Hussain Balou, Advisor to the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Region and Chairman of the Commission on oil and gas in the parliamentary session, the first explained the reasons for objection to the parliament on the law of oil and gas was developed by the Iraqi government. Iraqi MP Nahida Daini confirmed that the 60 deputies from different political parties signed a draft of the new law, and confirmed support for mass and the Kurdistan Alliance bloc to pass, and expected to be discussed next week. and MP from the coalition of the state of law Falh that the law will not pass If approved by the National Alliance, calling not to subject the law of oil and gas to the political debate. Ali Hussain Balou, adviser to the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region expected to see a draft law of oil and gas new objections by the Iraqi government, stressing that it has the consent of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In light of the conflicting statements and positions of representatives of the political blocs on one of oil and gas ruled out a political analyst, professor of political science at Baghdad University, Hamid stated that the law recognizes new oil and gas, despite its importance to Iraq's economy, if continued differences. more in the audio file below, which contributes a correspondent for Radio Iraq heat in Baghdad, Khalid Waleed
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