Parliamentary committee ruled out approve oil and gas law during the current legislative session (HCL)
Parliamentary committee ruled out approve oil and gas law during the current legislative session (HCL)
10.01.2013 8:29
{Baghdad: Euphrates News} ruled out of the oil and energy parliamentary approval of the law of oil and gas during the current legislative session.
Said committee member Susan Saad told {Euphrates News} on Tuesday that “the oil and gas law is purely political, so it is impossible passed during this legislative session.” It showed that “its Committee worked hard that there will be a compromise between the two governments central and Kurdistan region in order to pass this law, but the large number of joint committees between the two sides caused disable approval, as is not so far settle the matter by agreeing on the points of contention in the law. ” The decision of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary Qasim Muhammad Qasim has been ruled out is the other approving the law of oil and gas during the the current parliamentary session in the absence of a national consensus between the political blocs. Kassem said in an earlier statement that “the law of oil and gas is one of the important laws of the country which is a bone of contention between the political blocs so still hang in the House of Representatives as a result of the intransigence of the blocks and not to show flexibility towards it, explaining that approval needs to be a national consensus by the parliamentary blocs, stressing that in the absence of agreement blocs to pass this important law, it will leave to the next parliamentary session. The oil and gas law one of the most important laws in the country, being organized wealth of oil and gas and distributes powers between the federal government and local governments in the provinces and the region, where the central government insists that the contracting process and oil extraction and exploration in her hand, while calling for local governments to grant these powers. ended
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