National Expert Group calls to activate dormant sectors

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BAGHDAD - Hussein al-Tamimi Tgb
She called the National Expert Group, which includes a selection of officials and economic advisers and bankers in government and the private sector in Iraq, to ​​adopt urgently a government program to reform the Iraqi economy, based on the foundations reached by the team that form under it Diwani last January year. It is said that the national group of experts formed under it Diwani No. 14 of 2015, and boasts nine of the economists, bankers, consultants and Iraqi businessmen.

He called team representing the private sector, which is headed by the Director of the Office of the Prime Minister Mahdi Keywords and membership includes a group of economic advisers to the formation of a government of technocrats whose members enjoy scientific eligibility and professional competence, integrity and sincerity, away from quotas and speed up development of its decisions into effect a private Maitalq including the support of the private sector and promotion and encouragement to take its role in supporting the national economy, and maximizing state resources and rationalize government expenditure and investment promotion, and the drafting of urgent political and economic measures package in accordance with the program that commitments made by the government, and according to articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq

For the year 2005.

He appealed to the National Expert Group in his statement, Prime Minister Dr. Haider al-Abadi that includes government reforms he intends to carry out the program, economic reforms package is its motto, the market economy system, and support the private and sector, which is an important of the Iraqi people part has been neglected to a large degree, as should be given full confidence to the national turn in the face of the financial crisis the country is facing now.

The statement stressed the importance of including government reform plan, workable future programs, as the team called in his statement to proceed with the destruction of government reform process for the application of the procedures and policies package to support the private sector, which approved of the team sustained action exceeded 6 months and all seven axes decisions ( Agriculture - industry - tourism - trade - insurance - finance - services), the curtain comes down on the ugly quotas which produced departments inefficient system.

He also urged to develop a road map for reform to lift the government apparatus, financial and economic, in particular, making the outgrowth of the deficit and the bureaucracy
And sagging.

He noted also that the deterioration of oil prices and the decline of imports by Iraq financial Accordingly, disclosure revealed deadly gaps experienced by unilateral Iraqi economy, because of a no-brainer for private sector development, to be of help in calamities and crises, noting that the country's economy turned into a rentier economy consumer only his main concern insurance of employees and retirees covered by the salaries and social welfare law they
Millions.

He said the national group of experts that the way out of this crisis is the backing and support of the private sector, to diversify funding sources and encourage investment in the various sectors and activate the dormant and lagging economic sectors, retrenchment and enlighten public opinion, the measures taken by the government in order to cross the crisis.

He warned the national team of experts that any Aotbata failed to tackle the financial crisis happening once the country, will lead to serious repercussions on the living conditions of Iraqis to the public, as well as the negative impact on the security situation


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Government reforms to Dr. Haidar al-Abbadi (an objective presentation of the achievements and challenges)
The package of measures and policies to support private sector axes
First: ensure a strong participation of the private sector in economic activities in the fields (agriculture, industry, tourism, commerce, insurance, finance, and services) through (59) oriented implemented a series of actions and activities, and the ceilings fixed time between (1-5) years work was done in the year 2015 (13) oriented ones, and the details set forth in the Appendix (1). And include in below orientations of the government in the sectors mentioned and as follows:

1. In the agricultural sector

• encourage freedom of marketing of agricultural products and the creation of a sophisticated marketing centers with the establishment of factories to manufacture in excess of immediate need, as well as finding foreign markets.
• re-work projects run both types of poultry (eggs and meat production) through integration projects starting production of chicks and then breeding, fattening and then marketing to specialized massacres.
• Encourage dairy cattle-breeding through the establishment of small enterprises and projects of public interest with associations and investment companies.
• re-expansion of the cultivation of industrial crops such as cotton, sesame, sunflower and peanut field.
• encourage fishing in the territorial waters and on the road to victory Association specialized fishing in the Gulf.
• encourage local agricultural production with a comparative advantage as to help provide hard currency for the country to make up for food imports.
• Encouraging the marketing of wool and leather to domestic factories and overseas.
• Work on expanding the use of modern techniques in agriculture for the purpose of increasing the production units and improve its quality by focusing on protected agriculture, as well as improved seeds and the use of organic fertilizers.
• Encouraging the establishment of a civil agricultural banks for the purpose of providing funds for the establishment and development of agricultural projects.
• Encourage associations and companies to expand into breeding projects
Bees.

2. In the industrial sector

• Choose industries that used in its local raw materials for the purpose of reducing the leakage of hard currency such as construction and food industries (cement, plaster, bricks, blocks, tiles, and petrochemical and other).
• Choose and rehabilitation industries that attract a larger number of hands working to reduce unemployment with the modernization of these industries to reduce costs.
• Focus on comparative advantage industries which add to GDP the highest value competitive.
• Support for small and medium industries, especially the big feeder industries to create more jobs.
• Focus on producing fertilizers and micronutrients fertilizers and agricultural industries, organic fertilizers factories, factories dates, tomatoes, fruit plants, textile mills etc ...
• activate the role of the manufacturing industries that fall in other industries, and that can be exported, especially petrochemical industries.
• Action syndicated credit portfolios with the Industrial Bank and private banks through allocations from the annual budget. And the development and modernization of the mixed sector and expand
Contributions.
• activate and expand the free zones existing, new and regarded as an important pillar of the Iraqi economy (1-5 years).
• expansion of agro-industry in terms of feed (Fish, ruminants, poultry) including feed Albelt and green.
• encourage large investments industries such as cement and facilitate their work to attract other investors.
• the sale of raw materials and fuel to private industry at a reduced price and the actual provision of its fuel needed.
• facilitate the entry of technical manpower and experts to Iraq to the industrial sector and the granting of entry and residence attributes without delay for the purpose of installation and operation of modern factories.
• subjecting all goods entering Iraq to customs duties of competing products Iraqi production of special quality
High.
• simplifying the import of raw materials, machinery special procedures across customs departments.
• adoption of the ratification documents for goods exported to Iraq by the chambers of commerce and industry in the country of origin without complications.
3. In the services sector

• Open foreign investment door for the implementation of the strategic and vital projects as projects of ports, especially the port of Faw, new airports and expansion as an airport of international Middle Euphrates and projects fast railway lines Highway 2 and the road; where an essential projects for the completion of the dry canal across Iraq, as well as the implementation of the Baghdad Metro Line Ring Railway around Baghdad and the establishment of an investment Hotel in Baghdad international Airport and the establishment of a fourth building
For travelers.
• promote private sector partnership in the management of the transport sector facilities such as management and operation of the docks, airports and river transport through co-operation or the private sector to manage those facilities.
• Investment rest stops on the highway traffic (if security conditions improve.)
• Study the possibility of privatization of the two companies plenary passenger transport and road transport.
• orientation to the national and foreign direct investment to add new productive energies on the basis of direct investment or partnership between the public and private sectors, with the study of foreign investor demand for sovereign ensure due to the challenges facing the country in the stage
Current.
• expansion of private sector participation in municipal services.
• reconsider municipal services wages Avatar.
• Support and develop the government and private university education.
• Linking vocational and technical education with market needs
the work.
• Support your private education, which constitutes 11 percent of basic education by encouraging competition with public education, and encourage the private sector to open private schools and private kindergartens are not covered by compulsory education.
• encourage the private sector to invest in the health sector.

4. In the tourism sector

• take advantage of the comparative advantage of the tourism sector in the financing of the general budget and the adoption of the World Tourism Organization standards.
• Develop and organize religious tourism of all religions and sects.
• simplify the establishment of tourism companies procedures.

5. In the area of ​​finance

• Establish a fund.
• Establish a development bank.
• portfolio of credit for small and medium enterprises.
• Work to implement the decisions of the Supreme Supervisory Committee to restructure the Rafidain and Rasheed, and work on restructuring and other government banks and approve government banking law
And its application.

6. In the insurance field

• Encourage workers to save the acquisition of insurance policies on the life savings in order to withdraw liquidity and control inflation in the country.
• Expand insurance covers that offer security standard of living for workers in the public sector and the private sector, for example, the document multiple benefits insurance, offering workers living guarantees for workers
And their families.
• intensify vocational training for workers and workers in the insurance sector and to support them and encourage them to develop insurance and professional abilities.
• independence of the Office of Insurance for the Iraqi Ministry of Finance and devote his position quasi-governmental institution.
• supporting the role of the Iraqi re-insurance to the importance of its role on the insurance sector and the national economy company, and the weakness of the current positions supporting the local insurance companies.

7. In the field of trade

• Enhancing the role of trade in contributing to the gross domestic product and securing financial resources for the Treasury Alathaah through consequent fees
And taxes.
• activation of Iraq's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) because of its benefits for the commercial sector, the most important quality of goods entering Iraq and get rid of the double taxation.
The second axis: ensure orientations proposed development policies adopted for the next phase in the fields (agriculture, industry, tourism, services) through (33) approach implemented through a set of actions, activities and ceilings specified time, between (1-10) years work was done in 2015 on (15) oriented ones, and the details set forth in the Appendix (1). And include in below orientations of the government in the sectors mentioned and as follows:

1. In the agricultural sector

• Do not bulldozing orchards or exploitation of arable land for housing.
• reclamation of agricultural land viable for quench and available on water quotas.
• Protection and development of natural pastures and marshes expansion of forests and prevent desertification.

2. In the industrial sector

• Apply Industrial Investment Law No. 20 for the year 1998 to exempt manufacturers in Baghdad, the capital of the secretariat of the fees
And municipalities.
• Allow open civil quality laboratories of specialists to relieve the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control.
• formation of an industrial higher council with the Ministry of Industry and unions to resolve the intractable, headed by the minister of industry problems to follow up on the problems facing the sector and to overcome
Obstacles.
• Minimizing the inspection teams action to put pressure on existing projects and harassment arguments
Flimsy.
• requiring government departments to buy the national product emulator for a foreign government and private factories without discrimination.
• formation of a committee to follow up on the pharmaceutical industry and solving its problems, headed by Minister of Industry and membership of parliamentarians and general managers of Health and the Association of pharmaceutical producers of pharmacists and drug experts and captain resolve intractable issues in the manufacturing problems.
• the need to go in the electric power industry the means to achieve higher economic savings volumetric and most sustainable and least expensive in terms of operation.

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