Damascus-Sana
The People's Assembly, at its nineteenth session of the twelfth regular session of the second legislative session, held today under the chairmanship of Parliament Speaker Hamouda Sabbagh, approved a new draft law on organizing the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce and Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the governorates submitted to the Council by the Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection to replace the law No. 131 of 1959.
Council members approved articles 41, 47, 62, 94, 95 and 96 of the draft law of the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce after reformulating them by the Council’s Economic and Energy Affairs Committee, which the articles were referred to for consideration with a view to digging deeper into their study, reformulating them again and returning them to a vote on them.
Article 41 in its new form specifies the conditions for candidacy for membership in the Board of Directors, including that the member is a Syrian Arab who is twenty-four years old at the time of submitting the nomination application, that he has legal capacity, and that he is not convicted of a heinous crime or misdemeanor unless he has been rehabilitated and has passed on His affiliation with the Chamber is not less than four consecutive full years in addition to the election year, and he must be innocent towards the Chamber and not be a member of the Board of Directors of another Chamber.
The amended Article 47 included the powers of the Board of Directors, including “overseeing the implementation of the goals and objectives of the Chamber, setting, issuing and amending the administrative, organizational, financial, and accounting regulations and regulations of the Chamber’s employees and choosing a bank licensed in the state or more to deposit the Chamber’s funds in it.” Also, the amended Article 62 determined what the allowances are, including “affiliation The membership fee, the certificate of origin or source, and the union membership fee.
According to the amendments made by the specialized committee, articles 95 and 96 were merged with Article 94, and it includes penalties, including imprisonment from one to two years and a fine of 100 thousand Syrian pounds to 300 thousand pounds against anyone who submits false data or documents to register in the room or manipulates documents to exchange her money and is punished With imprisonment from one to three years and a fine of 200 to 500 thousand pounds, each member or candidate performs any fraud in the electoral process or manipulates the results of the elections in addition to being deprived of them and from being nominated in subsequent electoral cycles.
After the approval of the council members on the amended articles mentioned above, the council approved by majority the majority of the articles of the new draft law regulating the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce and the joint Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the governorates and became law.
The new law aims to regulate the work of the Chambers of Commerce and the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce and comes in line with the new Syrian constitution and contributes to framing its work and developing the business environment and expanding the services of member rooms and contributing to the development process and preparing the necessary studies on the state of markets and the flow of goods and the extent of their quality in addition to following up the study of price movements and fluctuations .
The Council also approved the draft law that includes amending some articles of the Local Administration Law issued by Legislative Decree No. 107 of 2011 and its amendments that have been proposed by the Ministry of Local Administration.
Among the amended articles in the law is article 102, which has become stipulated in its new form: "It is not permissible to arrest members of local councils during the period of their meetings or to implement penal provisions against them, except after obtaining permission from the local council."
With Article 124 in its new form, the decision to cancel the membership is taken in a session attended by the absolute majority of members of the Council and with the approval of two-thirds of the members present and the member who took a decision to cancel his membership objecting to this decision before the Cabinet with regard to members of the provincial council and members of city councils of governorates centers and before the minister in relation to the rest Local councils The decision issued by these references is subject to appeal before the administrative court.
After the approval of the aforementioned two articles, the members of the parliament approved the majority of the bill and became law.
The session, which was attended by the Ministers of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection, Dr. Atef Naddaf, the local administration and the environment, Eng. Hussein Makhlouf and the state for the affairs of the People's Assembly, Abdullah Abdullah, was elevated to 11:00 tomorrow, Thursday.
Wasim Adawi