The House of Representatives votes on one law, rejects another, and ends reading two laws {extended}
The House of Representatives votes on one law, rejects another, and ends reading two laws {extended}
11/09/2020 17:10:48
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The House of Representatives voted in its twentieth session, which was held under the chairmanship of Hassan Karim Al-Kaabi, First Deputy Speaker, today, Monday 11/09/2020, and in the presence of 182 deputies, on one law, and the vote was rejected On the last, as he finished reading and discussing two laws.
Al-Kaabi called at the beginning of the session, according to a statement by the Media Department of the Council of Representatives, that the Euphrates News received a copy of it, to the commitment of the representatives to attend the sessions of the Council to proceed with the required legislation, pointing to the publication of the names of the absentees and the deduction of a sum of money for each absence according to the internal system.
During the session chaired by Bashir Haddad, Vice President of the Council, the Council voted on the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Convention on Loading Lines for the year 1966 and the amended protocol to it for the year 1988 amended in 2003 and submitted by the Committees on Foreign Relations, Services and Construction in order to adhere to unified principles and rules regarding Limits of loading ships operating on international voyages and for the protection of life and property at sea.
The Council also voted not to approve the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Convention for Search and Rescue at the Sea for the year 1979 submitted by the Committee on Foreign Relations in order to improve measures, procedures and national arrangements related to search and rescue operations following the occurrence of maritime accidents and to develop adequate plans to address such cases and circumstances.
While the Council postponed the vote on the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Convention on Limits of Liability on Maritime Requirements of 1976 in its form amended by the 1996 Protocol, including the limits of liability amended therein, and the draft law on ratification of the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty Arbitration between Investors and States and submitted by the Relations Committee External.
The council also postponed the vote on the draft law ratifying the agreement to accelerate cooperation in the economic field and energy affairs between the government of the Republic of Iraq and the government of the Republic of South Korea submitted by the committees on foreign relations, oil, energy, wealth, economy and investment.
In the same regard, the Council completed the first reading of the draft law ratifying the basic cooperation agreement between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNIDO submitted by the Foreign Relations and Services and Reconstruction Committees in order to promote industrial development in developing countries to establish a new international economic order to promote development and cooperation in the industrial field At the global, regional, national and sectoral levels.
The Council began to read the report and discuss the draft law of the Council of Ministers and Ministries submitted by the Legal Committee.
Representatives’ interventions focused on the demand for a thorough study of the draft law, as it contradicts the parliamentary system, robs it of its powers, and gives the executive authority and the prime minister more powers other than the constitution, in addition to the violation of its provisions against many laws of ministries and bodies.
In turn, the Legal Committee assured that it takes the proposals and opinions of the ladies and gentlemen deputies into consideration in order to complete the drafting of the bill.
For his part, Al-Haddad directed to continue discussing the draft law of the Council of Ministers and the ministries in order to mature the ideas and proposals presented regarding the law.
After that, it was decided to raise the session to next Wednesday 11/11/2020,
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