Dozens of laws waiting for approval during the new legislative term

06/18/2012 0:00

House of Representatives ended the half the length of his constitutional and entered its third year
BAGHDAD - Al Sabah

With the entry of the House of Representatives in its third year after the expiration of half the length of his constitutional, some believe that what the parliament is not achieved much, despite a law passed 86, while the remains of dozens of laws and legislation awaiting the end of the concerted efforts and political crises for approval, especially as many of them late because of the lack of agreed upon by the main parliamentary blocs.

It was the beginning of a parliamentary source has said the "morning", said the chairman of the parliament approved about 90 left legally to the new legislative term, which begins next Thursday.

Source said: "The most prominent of these laws are: a general amnesty, the Federal Court , oil and gas law, inspectors general, parties, Judicial Council, in addition to the laws of several ministries.

"In this regard, MP Kazem Al Shammari said:" The work of the House of Representatives is the result of numerous efforts between the Presidency and the members of the Board House of Representatives and the political blocs and their leaders and those with the people they were able to accomplish certain tasks. "he said in a statement the" morning "that" the work of the House of Representatives was not satisfactory during the legislatures of these two chapters that he became a victim of political crises, and that he did not break it did not make him walk a line fixed it, but influenced by the work done by the blocks of political crises, "he said, adding that the House interject himself in many of the problems and did not play a role in the unification of the class, but sometimes he was part of these crises.

Shammari said that "the next term will not be the best event of the courses that preceded it and keep the performance of the House of Representatives is not in the form required which must possess in building a country needs to enact laws that help to promote the fact who suffers from it.

"The House of Representatives opened its second 2010 - 2014 the first session held in 14/6/2010 under the chairmanship of the oldest member, Fuad Masum, and the presence of Vice-President and Prime Minister and his deputies and former House Speaker and his deputies, ministers and members of the House of Representatives and former head of the Kurdistan National Assembly and Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq and members of the diplomatic corps accredited to Baghdad. as MP Hassan al-Asadi told the "morning" that "the performance of House of Representatives in the second legislative term is much better than the first quarter, but with this, the Council's performance, even in its second level is not required.

"Asadi said, adding," There is an absence of many of the laws of interest to citizens ", noting that "there are some laws that have been legislation which speaks of international treaties, while the absence of significant laws affect the lives of citizens."

He confirmed the existence of "weakness of the regulatory level, we find the House of Representatives to host the officials do not exceed the fingers of the hand and interrogations are not, but twice, we find here the problem of the supervisory role of the Council of Representatives.

And Asadi said," There is lack of follow-up by the Presidency and that at the legislative level there is no priority to the Presidency in its work, but it must be said that the House is one of the basic institutions of the State, but he did not take his role very well and, unfortunately, part of the problems may have affected the political process in his work, "he says.

He continued:" The criticisms leveled by the Iraqi street to the House of Representatives is correct, because in some of the duty of Parliament is to manage the political process, but it failed in some sectors of the state and this endures because the role of Parliament the oversight was not the required level, and some of the other criticisms were not in place as if there is weakness in the services provided to citizens and this borne by the executive branch.

However two years on the first session and closing of the second legislative term of the electoral cycle Second, the number of laws passed during this period that saw the large number of the sessions was called "consultative" and the other without a quorum because of political differences, of 86 law, however, that there is more than 200 law still waiting for approval. in turn, said MP Qais Cdhir that "the work of the House of Representatives in the previous chapters is not perfect, but compared to the conditions experienced by the House of Representatives and political crises that gripped the country, it is quite a bit."

As for the laws that were raised and the agenda of the Parliament in this period are very good level, and the talk of the helter-skelter, which confirmed that he discussed the important laws, and we look forward in the next two chapters legislatures to be the best level of performance.

Cdhir added that "there are many of partisan parties and some parties in the government trying to influence the work of the House of Representatives through the presentation of minor negatives experienced by without worrying Pallaijabiat carried out by the end of this release is a hand to these entities in order to incite the Iraqi street House of Representatives in order to resolve this and it is not possible in this period, "he says.

He continued:" I do not know who called calls to dissolve parliament and it does not come by Amani some blocs or parties, but if the House of Representatives wanted to solve should be a decision of the Council itself.

"The following laws passed during the years 2011 and 2012:

"Law of the Vice-President of the Republic, the law of the federal budget of the Republic of Iraq for the financial year / 2011, the law of ratification to cancel the contract to develop and produce Ahdab oil field, the law of the Republic of Iraq ratified the amendment to the Convention on the crude oil pipeline, signed in August 27, 1973, decision to abolish the law of the Revolution Command Council dissolved No. (349) for the year 1991, the law setting aside of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council No. (100) for the year 1995, the law on ratification of the Convention on the settlement of claims between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the United States, Act to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure No. 23 of 1971, the law of the opinion, the law of the First Amendment to the law of private investment in refining crude oil No. (64) for the year 2007, the law on ratification of the letters The exchange of notes and minutes of discussions on the Japanese loan to the Government of the Republic of Iraq signed on February 21, 2010. "according to the website and the House of Representatives, the Parliament has also approved the" Law of the development of administrative structures, integrate and modify the association , the chosen law, the law setting aside of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council (133) for the year 1985, the law setting aside of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council (800) for the year 1989, the law setting aside of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council (96) for the year 1994, the law on ratification of the Arab Convention to facilitate the transmission of cultural production between the Government of the Arab Republic of Iraq and the Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science, Law service and retirement of the forces of the Internal Security Act, the Higher Institute for the diagnosis of infertility and assisted reproduction techniques, the law of ratification Cooperation Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the International Organization for Migration, the law of the rights of journalists, the law of the Ministry of Education, Literacy Act, the law of cancellation Revolution Command Council dissolved No. (427) for the year 1991 and the number (293) for the year 1992, Law of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the law of salaries and allowances of the presidency. "

As voted for: "the law of salaries and allowances of the Council of Ministers, the law of salaries and allowances of the House of Representatives, the law setting aside of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council No. (55) for the year 1999, the law of the Integrity Commission, Office of Financial Supervision Act , the law of the Iraqi Housing Fund, the law of Iraq cancel a reservation to Article (9) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against women contained in Law No. (66) for the year 1986, the law of the First Amendment to the Law of the customs tariff number (22) for the year 2010, the law amending the law the Iraqi High Criminal Court, the law of the monthly grant for patients with immune deficiency. "

Parliament also approved the "Law on the Ministry of Commerce, Law of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, law on ratification of the Framework Agreement on Trade Preferential System among the member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference, the law of the Second Amendment to the Law on the Ministry of Water Resources No. (50 ) for the year 2008. "site said the House of Representatives was to vote on:" Iraq's accession to the Law of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism of 1999, the law of accession of the Republic Iraq to the Convention of the Organization of the Islamic Conference on Combating International Terrorism, Law accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, the Law of the abolition of the Revolutionary Command Council resolutions numbered dissolved (1194) for the year 1983 and (456) for the year 1985, the law of the dormitories Support Fund at the Ministry of Higher Education, Law provisions of the nomination for the post of President of the Republic, the law of recovery of funds Fund of Iraq, support the law of small income-generating, the law of the Fourth Amendment to the law of maintenance of irrigation and drainage No. (12) for the year 1995, the law of reward faculty members, educational, Law of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Act, exempting capital reserves for the mixed sector companies, the law of decorations and medals, the law of accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Convention against Doping in Sport, Law of the Republic of Iraq's accession to the Protocol on the Privileges of the International Seabed Authority and Immunities of the anti-smoking law, the law setting aside of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council (190) for the year 1994, the law on ratification of the Convention on the economic and trade cooperation and technical cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the law of the federal budget of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year 2012, the law of the Republic of Iraq to join the Arab Charter for Human Rights issued by the Arab League in 2004, the law against trafficking in human beings , the law of the Republic of Iraq ratified the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages, law on ratification of the Convention on the Promotion and Protection of Investment between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the French Republic, the decision to cancel the law of the Revolutionary Command Council (degenerate) No. (196) for the year 1999, the law ratifying the Convention on trade and economic cooperation, scientific and technical and cultural cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the law of the First Amendment to the Military Penal Code No. (19) for the year 2007, the law of the First Amendment to the Law of the University Service No. (23) for the year 2008, the law of the Republic of Iraq ratified the International Convention on the institution of the Organization of the International Agency for Renewable Energy Act, the decision to cancel the dissolved Revolution Command Council No. (196) for the year 1984. "also passed through the House of Representatives year 2012: "the law of ratification Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the European Union regarding the strategic partnership in energy, the law of the Republic of Iraq's accession to the Treaty with regard to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, the law of accession of the Republic of Iraq to Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the law of the Republic of Iraq's accession to the Convention Establishing the Organization of Plant Protection in the Near East, law on ratification of the Convention on Technical Cooperation in the field of animal health between the Government and the Government of the Republic of Iraq Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the law of ratification of the Convention on Technical Cooperation in the field of quarantine and plant protection between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Law of the Ministry of Construction and Housing, law on ratification of the Statute of the Arab Environment Facility, the law of ratification of the Statute for the Islamic Union of Telecommunications, the law of socialist integration of the bank (Bank of Iraq now) Rafidain Bank, Provident Fund Act Customs Act, the extension of service of judges, law cancel the decision of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council No. (206) for the year 2000, the law exempting farmers and peasants borrowers of the benefits arising from previous loans discharged, Registration Act and the adoption of pesticides, the law of the regulation of agricultural materials. 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