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Parliamentary Finance: This is the problem of the draft amendment to the budget law and this is the date for the tables to arrive
12/1/2024
The Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed some details of its joint meeting with the agents and senior cadre officials in the Ministry of Oil, to discuss oil revenues and the draft amendment to the general budget law related to production costs in the Kurdistan Region's fields.
The head of the committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, said in a statement to media representatives, including the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / today, Sunday, that "the meeting focused on the technical aspects of the oil revenues file, especially with regard to the extent of the region's commitment to the agreed-upon decision of the consulting company, the time frame required to complete the requirements of this estimate, and the estimated production costs and criteria for calculating them."
He explained that "there is an urgent need to end the management of this file according to legal foundations that achieve justice, which requires studying and reviewing the new amendment draft," indicating that "the agents of the Ministry of Finance will be hosted in a new meeting to explain the mechanism for paying these amounts that are considered sovereign expenses."
He added, "The draft amendment relates exclusively to Article 12, Second C, and does not include any other article in the General Budget Law," indicating that "the problem with the draft amendment to the new budget law is the extent to which companies contracting with the region adhere to the results of arbitration and the decision of the consulting company, which may indicate a discrepancy between the companies' vision and conviction in determining the price and costs of production and the decision of the consulting company," noting the necessity of having an obligation to the provisions of the law and their implementation, and we do not want to add other new provisions, but rather limit ourselves to binding governing provisions."
Regarding the general budget tables, he explained, "The tables are supposed to reach the House of Representatives before the end of this year."