Time: 13/1/20 5:02pm
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The House of Representatives voted at its twenty-eighth session, which was held under the chairmanship of Hassan Al-Ka’bi, the first deputy of the Speaker and in the presence of 187 deputies today, Monday 13/1/2020, on the law of accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Land Transport Agreement and a number of articles of the Health Insurance Law And it ended the first reading of two draft laws.
The media department of the Council stated in a statement, {Al Furat News} received a copy of it, that at the beginning of the session, the Council voted on a draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Land Transport Agreement of 1975 submitted by the Foreign Relations, Services and Reconstruction Committees, with the aim of facilitating international land traffic for transport operators and their agents Through the movement of goods subject to customs seals by a simple and cost-effective system and reducing delays at border crossings and the passage of shipping containers and vehicles in international trade for the purpose of joining the Land Transport Agreement of 1975.
The council resumed voting on the proposal of the health insurance law submitted by the Health and Environment Committee, while postponing the vote on a number of articles of the law until it was agreed upon in coordination with the executive authorities.
In another matter, the council finished the first reading of the proposal of the Sports Clubs Law submitted by the Youth and Sports Committee, which came in implementation of Article 36 of the Constitution of Iraq for the year 2005 and in line with the changes taking place at the world level in sports clubs and to open the way for them to benefit from the laws related to investment, privatization and sports professionalism And intellectual property rights and television transfer rights, in order for clubs and sports institutions to take the required role in the sports movement and in the social and cultural life and in order to adopt and prepare athletes and develop their physical and mental capabilities and in order to spread the principles Olympic between members of the community and athletes.
The Council completed the first reading of the proposed sports federations law submitted by the Youth and Sports Committee based on the changes that occurred in the work of sports federations worldwide and the requirements for updating its law and implementation of laws related to professionalism and sports investment and the National Olympic Committee and to provide an appropriate space for federations to carry out their work and implement their goals and effective participation in international sports organizations In order to prepare athletes and develop their physical and mental capabilities for their international and regional competition and to consolidate the Olympic principles and spread them among athletes, in order to ensure the advancement of the irrigation movement Yeh in the country in order to organize and accommodate diversity and plurality and proliferation became facing the sports movement in the country.
After that, it was decided to adjourn the session to tomorrow, Tuesday 14/1/2020, finished