He is 19 years old and the most important of 150 suspended laws.. Will the powers give up the "golden paper" in oil and gas legislation?
7/28/2024 Politics
The Parliamentary Oil and Gas Committee expressed, today, Sunday, its "optimism" about the imminent approval of the Oil and Gas Law, which has been suspended for 19 years, noting that its delay came because it is a political pressure card used throughout the past years in forming successive governments.
Committee member Nazim Al-Shabli told Sumaria News that the oil and gas law is the most important suspended law, noting that it was “used as a political pressure card in forming governments.”
However, Al-Shabli expected that “the most serious government in this file is the Al-Sudani government,” noting that “clear committees have been formed between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government, but until now the government has not sent the final version to the House of Representatives or the Oil Committee.”
Al-Shabli expressed the hope of the Oil Committee that "the relevant committees will resolve the issue and send it to Parliament, as the law has benefits in regulating oil exports and stopping smuggling or selling oil outside SOMO," believing that "this issue will be resolved in the coming days."
He stressed that "the delay in the law came because it is a political card, especially since the region wants the law and considers it to be in its interest, in addition to the fact that it has old obligations and contracts with foreign companies, in addition to the continuation of smuggling."
About a year has passed since the formation of the committee to draft the oil and gas law, after a 19-year delay in the law that regulates the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil regarding the management of oil in Kurdistan and the rest of the provinces," while the law is considered one of the most important laws that have been suspended for years, amounting to more than 150 laws. LINK
