The Iraqi Council of Ministers took a number of decisions related to health, investment and heritage, in a second session this week.
A statement by the Office of Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani said that the latter presided over the 26th regular session of the Council of Ministers, the second during this week, in compensation for the session that was postponed due to the Eid al-Adha holiday.
The session witnessed the discussion of all general topics in the country, and the follow-up of service and economic files, especially those related to the implementation of the government program, and the paragraphs on the agenda were also discussed, and the necessary decisions were taken on them.
During the session, the Prime Minister directed the formation of a committee from the Investment Authority, the Advisory Commission in the Office of the Prime Minister, the Coordinator of Provincial Affairs, and the Legal Department of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, to study the proposed amendments to the investment system.
The Sudanese also directed the ministries to activate the memorandums of understanding signed with Turkey during the visit of the President of the Turkish Republic, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to Iraq.
Within the framework of government treatments for the electricity file and the development of direct solutions, the contract of the Ministry of Electricity with private sector companies to prepare an additional amount of energy was approved, due to the summer peak load, and in the method of (Take and pay), in accordance with the equation proposed by the Ministry of Electricity, and for a period of 3 months, extendable according to the need of the system, and according to financial powers.
As well as approving the exception of the oil products distribution company, for the purpose of contracting with a carrier company to transport operational fuel to private sector stations; so that fuel can be initiated as soon as possible, and to start processing electric power for the national system and based on the government’s approach to completing backward projects, and to prevent the waste of public money, the Council of Ministers approved the following:
First / Changing the name of the project (rehabilitating the original unified Khalidiya water project with a capacity of 250 m3 / h in the Governorate of the World Bank Emergency / additional financing), to become (rehabilitating the original Unified Al-Khalidiya Water with a capacity of 250 m3/ hour, and expansion with a capacity of 200 m3 / hour in Anbar Governorate / Emergency loan – additional financing), with increasing the total cost of the project.
Second / Introducing a component (completing the establishment of scientific departments in the Agricultural Technical College / University of Mosul), and increasing the total cost of the project.
In order to complete the requirements of the strategic joint sea water project, the recommendation of the Ministerial Council for Energy (24054 i) for the year 2024 was approved as follows:
1. Exclusion of the tenders for the Seawater Joint Project and the ILF Project Consultant Tender (CSSP) from the contracting methods stipulated in the instructions for the implementation of government contracts (2 of 2014) and exclude them from the application of the standard document.
2. Exclusion of tenders for the joint sea water project and the tender of the project consultant (CSSP) of ILF and consultants from the instructions to facilitate the implementation of the federal general budget for the years (2023 -2024-2025).
3. The draft included in the aforementioned paragraphs (1 and 2) by the Council of Ministers resolution (23700 of 2023). Within the framework of the government’s special work to care for heritage monuments, the Council approved the recommendations of the Joint Committee for Heritage Schools set out in the letter of the Ministry of Education on November 27, 2023, as follows:
1. Referring my school (Al-Futwa, and Quraysh) to demolition and reconstruction, in the traditional form and style specified by the Joint Committee.
2. Including schools (Kazimiya primary, Al-Mafid Primary, Kadhimiya preparatory school for boys, and Kadhimiya preparatory schools for girls) with maintenance and restoration work.
3. Coordinating the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance to provide the required amounts for (12 schools) included in the plan to develop the holy city of Kadhimiya, by conducting the required transfer in accordance with the Federal Budget Law for the fiscal years (2023 – 2024 – 2025).
In the course of the government’s policy under the auspices of all components in Iraq, the Council voted on the following: First: Approving the recommendation of the Ministerial Council for Social Services (24018 KH) on the transfer of ownership of real estate, details of which are listed in below to the Office of the Christian, Yazidi and Sabean Endowments as follows:
1. Transfer of real estate ownership (2/6716 Al-Katoun – Diyala / Mandaean Sabean Sect), (10/2 Sekak and Paf / Miyadadiya – Diyala, the cemetery of the Mandaean Sabean sect), (1/ 473 especially Timari- Kirkuk Mandaean Sabean sect) without an allowance, based on the provisions of the Law of the Diwan of Endowments of Religions (58 of 2012).
2. Transfer of real estate ownership (2/456 Al-Khar / Baghdad Mandi Sabean Sect), (48/24 Abu Tararid Al-Diwaniyah, the cemetery of the Sabean Mandaean sect), (34/3 Al-Zubair / Basra, the cemetery of the Mandaean Sa’an sect) without an allowance, based on the provisions of the law on the ownership of Arss and buildings (3 of 1960).
3. The Minister of Construction, Housing and Municipalities is responsible for the transfer of ownership of the two properties (180/54990/ Nasseriya, the cemetery of the Sabean-Mandaean sect), (123 Al-Shukhou market / Nasiriyah, the cemetery of the Mandaean Saean sect) without an allowance, based on legislative decision (693 of 1973).
4. Transfer of ownership of the property (13/430 Al-Karkh / Baghdad) in an allowance, based on the provisions of the Law on the Sale and Rent of State Funds (21 of 2013) amended.
Second: The transfer of ownership above, as established above, shall be bound by the conditions of endowment land, with the obligation to uses of land without changing them.
Third: The Ministry of Finance shall, within (30) working days, a maximum of the date of issuance of this decision, submit a study to the Council of Ministers to settle the rights resulting from the two properties numbered (3/6578 Ministerial / Baghdad Social Acquaintance Club), and (1/Hirkuk, the cemetery of the Sabean-Mandaean sect), and indicate the extent of transferring their ownership to the aforementioned office.
In support of the government’s work in the private sector, paragraph (4) of the recommendation of the Board of Advisors was approved, on addressing the problems and obstacles of work in the private industrial sector, which includes taking the necessary measures to grant a period of (6) months to all industrialists whose charge previous debts to any government entity, for review and settlement of debts and benefit from the Council of Ministers resolution (23188 of 2023), and the non-payment of debts within a period of (6) months is not considered an obstacle to promoting their transactions. This decision will be implemented from the date of its issuance.
In the field of health care and its projects, the Council of Ministers approved the instructions for the Ministry of Health on June 27, 2024, with the exception of the province of the implementation of Nineveh Governorate, and granted the Governor of Nineveh the authority to direct invitation directly to an advisory office for the purpose of auditing and approving designs, and supervising the implementation of the project (Ibn Sina Teaching Hospital), implemented within the emergency support budget.
Approval of what was stated in the Ministry of Health’s letter on the settlement of the amounts of the Iraq-specific commitment agreement with the Cofax facility, which was canceled in exchange for paying the fees for termination of the agreement with the manufacturers (GAVI), as all amounts due to Iraq are paid in one go within 20 days of informing (GAVI) of this, provided that the payment is 78.5% of the total amount due, equivalent to 6.546 million dollars, according to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization voluntarily.
The Council of Ministers approved the recommendations of the Diwan Order Committee (23603), which was formed under the guidance of the Prime Minister, in light of what was raised at the session held on June 4, which included reviewing the fees of lawyers stipulated in the Lawyer Law (173 of 1965) amended, to become as follows:
First: Retaining the text of paragraph (2/I/a) of Article (63) of the lawyer in force as contained in the text.
Second: Amend the paragraphs (B, C, D) of the aforementioned text in (I) to read as follows:
B. With at least (25 thousand dinars) only, and not more than (150 thousand dinars) in the lawsuit of unlimited value, and the criminal case in which the civil right is claimed.
C. An amount of (5%) of the value of the allowance sentenced in exprociation lawsuits, provided that it is not less than (25 thousand dinars) only, and not more than (150 thousand dinars).
Dr. With at least (25 thousand dinars) only, and not more than (75 thousand dinars), it is borne by the State Treasury of the assigned lawyer in accordance with the provisions of Article (144) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (23 of 1971).
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