Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Parliamentary Finance: Amending the budget will end the dispute over the oil file, 10 DEC

 Parliamentary Finance: Amending the budget will end the dispute over the oil file

Finance Committee: Budget amendment will end dispute over oil file

The Parliamentary Finance Committee, headed by Representative Atwan Al Atwani, hosted the head of the Federal Financial Supervision Bureau, Mr. Ammar Subhi Khalaf, and the senior staff, to discuss the draft of the first amendment to the Federal General Budget Law.

Al-Atwani stressed, according to a statement by the Parliament’s media, a copy of which was received by {Euphrates News}, “the committee’s keenness to approve the amendment in a realistic and implementable manner, in a way that ends the existing dispute between the federal government and the regional government regarding the oil file.”

He also pointed out that the completion of the committee's work on this amendment is dependent on the presence of the Ministry of Finance to clarify the legal basis for disbursing financial dues to foreign oil companies operating in the region.

For his part, the Chairman of the Federal Financial Supervision Bureau reviewed the schedule of financial dues between the federal government and the region, stressing the documentation of these dues in the Bureau’s reports, with the addition of notes regarding the delivery of the region’s oil and non-oil revenues to the federal government.

The Chairman of the Financial Supervision Bureau stressed the need for the amendment to include clear mechanisms for liquidating financial advances before the end of the year to avoid their accumulation. He stressed that the agreement based on this amendment is good and implementable, with the need to address the observations referred to.

The senior staff of the Financial Supervision Bureau also provided a briefing on the progress of the procedures for localizing the salaries of the region’s employees, indicating that the localization rate exceeded 80% in the banks accredited by the Central Bank of Iraq, with the end of the year set as the final date for completing the biometric cards to ensure that the problem of duplicate salaries is addressed.  link


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