Damascus-SANA
Today, the People's Assembly resumed the work of its sixteenth session of the eighth regular session of the third legislative session, headed by Hamouda Sabbagh, Speaker of the Parliament.
The Council continued discussing the articles of the new draft law on fees, insurance and judicial expenses, as it approved by the majority a number of articles after both the Chairman of the Parliament’s Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, which prepared the report on the project, and the Minister of Justice, Judge Ahmed Al-Sayed, responded to the members’ questions and inquiries regarding the articles.
At the beginning of the session, the Council referred draft laws that included “creating a fund to finance the national project to convert to modern irrigation to replace the fund established by Legislative Decree No. 91 of 2005,” and exemption from fines for delay in payment of irrigation fees, rent allowances, and similar wages for state-owned real estate in the event that these are paid. Fees and allowances within a period of 6 months, encouraging companies to become anonymous public shareholding companies, and amending some articles of Law No. 62 of 2006 regarding the protection of desert lands to the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee to discuss their constitutional permissibility and to prepare the necessary reports on each of them.
The session, which was attended by the Minister of State for People's Assembly Affairs, Abdullah Abdullah, was adjourned to 12:00 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday.
Louay Hossamo and Wassim Al-Adawy
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