A joint committee to discuss common positions on the draft oil

29/08/2012 03:21


BAGHDAD / Bri Center for the Iraqi Media Network - confirmed the Parliamentary Joint Committee (Legal and energy) to hold a second meeting next Wednesday to discuss the possibility of unification of positions on the draft law of oil and energy serve as a basis for discussion.

The decision of the Commission on oil and energy and a member of the Joint Committee Qasim Muhammad's (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network) that "the joint committee, which includes six members of the oil and the likes of the Legal Committee ended its first meeting today and agreed to hold a second meeting next Wednesday."

He is scheduled to "meeting concluded the need to continue talks for the purpose of the agreement on the choice of a draft oil law among drafts before or blending between drafts and exit one be a basis for discussion," he noted that "the Commission is not looking dilemmas between the central government and the provincial government on the management of oil" .

There's oil and energy committee three drafts of the parliamentary oil and gas laws are drafted in 2007, the draft Government and the Committee a draft of the proposed law.

Article (111) of the Constitution reads as follows: "Oil and gas is the property of all the Iraqi people in all the regions and governorates," while Article (112) reads as follows: "

First: The federal government will administer oil and gas extracted from current fields with the governments of the producing regions and provinces, to be distributed and imports fairly commensurate with the population distribution in all parts of the country. "


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Iraq: a tentative agreement on the adoption of a draft law of oil and gas in 2007
29/08/2012 14:44



Arbil August 29 / August (Rn) - Rapporteur of the Commission on oil and gas in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, on Wednesday, an agreement in principle between the presidencies of the Council of Ministers and the Iraqi parliament on adoption of a draft law of oil and gas for the year 2007 for approval by the House of Representatives, adding that the Kurds supported that choice.

Zubair oil field The Committee for the Unification of the three bills proposed oil and gas emanating from the Iraqi parliament, had held its first meeting today to discuss the selection of one of those bills.

It is said that there are three bills currently in the Iraqi parliament, was presented first project in 2007, but due to the failure to reach a consensus on it hung in the House of Representatives, and the second project was presented by the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary, either third project has been sent to the House of Representatives in 2011 by the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani, however, none of these projects have not yet attained ratification by Parliament so far.

According to Mohammad Qasim told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), that "there is an agreement in principle between the presidencies of the Council of Ministers and the Iraqi parliament representatives of two major blocs within the House and two a coalition and Iraqi rule of law, on adoption of the draft law of oil and gas for the year 2007 for approval by the House of Representatives, a selection of cast support of the Kurds. "

Mohammed added that "this agreement would facilitate the work of the Commission for the Unification of the three bills proposed oil and gas."

The oil and gas file, one of the main outstanding problems between the Kurdistan Regional Government, and the federal government, in the absence of a law regulating oil and gas affairs in Iraq.

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2007 bill to become basis for Iraqi oil and gas law
29/08/2012 13:30

Tanki Nawt ERBIL, Aug.29 (AKnews) - Most of the political blocs at the Iraqi Council of Representatives have agreed that the 2007 oil and gas bill should become a basis for drafting the oil and gas law, said coordinator of oil and gas committee.

A committee assigned by the presidency of the Council of Representatives is due to choose one from the three proposed bills as the basis for the law.

One bill was proposed in 2007 but lack of political consensus suspended it. The second bill was proposed by the oil and gas committee and the third was suggested in 2011 by the Council of Ministers.

The created committee, tasked with choosing one of the bills, met today for the first time, said Qasem Mohammed, a Kurdish member at the oil and gas committee as well as the created committee.

The MP said according to the committee's information in the recent meeting between the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Speaker of the Council of Representatives Osama al-Nujaifi, the two officials have agreed that the 2007 bill should become the basis for the oil and gas bill.

Thus the two major blocs, the National Alliance (NA) and the Iraqiya List, have voiced their agreement over the bill through their representatives: PM (from NA) and the council speaker (from Iraqiya), Mohammed said.

The MP added "as Kurds, we also deem 2007 bill appropriate."

This concord will help the 12-member committee (six members of the legal committee and the rest from the oil and gas committee) in choosing one of the bills, Mohammed said.

The UN will watch the committee while performing its mission so that there are no interventions, according to Mohammed.

He added so far there are no objections against the committee, led by MP Adnan Janabi.

By Rebin Hassan
LL / AKnews


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