Tishwash: Issue No. (4814) of the Iraqi Gazette was published on 2/17/2025.
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– Law No. (1) of 2025 “Amending Personal Status Law No. (188) of 1959.”
– Law No. (2) of 2025 “Second Amendment to General Amnesty Law No. (27) of 2016”.
– Law No. (3) of 2025 “Cancelling the decisions of the (dissolved) Revolutionary Command Council and returning the properties to their owners.”
– Law No. (4) of 2025 “First Amendment to the Federal General Budget Law of the Republic of Iraq for the Fiscal Years (2023-2024-2025) No. (13) of 2023.”
– Regulation No. (3) of 2025 “The first amendment to the Civil Airports Wages System No. (6) of 2018 issued by Cabinet Resolution No. (67) of 2025.”
– Instructions No. (1) of 2025 “Implementing the Second Amendment Law to Amnesty Law No. (27) of 2016, effective from the date of voting on it in the Iraqi Council of Representatives on 1/21/2025.”
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Resolution No. (1)
Based on what was approved by the House of Representatives based on the provisions of Clause (First) of Article 21
Article 73, paragraph (Third) of the Constitution
The President of the Republic decided on 2/11/2025
Issuing the following law:
No. (1) of 2025 law
First Amendment to the Federal General Budget Law of the Republic of Iraq
For the fiscal years (2023-2025-2025) No. (13) of 2023
Article 10 – The text of Paragraph (c) of Clause (Second) of Article 12 of the Federal General Budget Law of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal years (2023) 2024-2025 No. 13 shall be cancelled.
Year 2023 and shall be replaced by the following:
A1: The Federal Ministry of Finance shall compensate the Kurdistan Regional Government from the sovereign expenses for the costs of production and transportation of the quantities of oil produced in the region that are received by the State Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) or the Federal Ministry of Oil in accordance with paragraphs (b) of this clause, provided that the calculation is made C
10. The Federal Ministry of Finance shall compensate the Kurdistan Regional Government from sovereign expenses for the costs of production and transportation of the quantities of oil produced in the region that are received by the State Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) or the Federal Ministry of Oil in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) of this clause, provided that the fair estimated costs of production and transportation for each field separately are calculated by a specialized international technical consulting body determined by the Federal Ministry of Oil in agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources in the region, within a period of (60) sixty days from the date of entry into force of this law, and in the event of failure to reach an agreement within the aforementioned period, the Federal Council of Ministers shall determine the aforementioned consulting body.
The technical advisory body referred to in (1) of this paragraph shall submit the estimated cost of production and transportation to the Federal Ministries of Finance and Oil.
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The Kurdistan Regional Government, and it is approved for the purposes of this law, and the compensation stipulated in (1) of this paragraph shall be calculated based on the aforementioned cost per barrel multiplied by the number of barrels received in accordance with paragraphs (a, b) of this item, and the Federal Ministry of Finance shall undertake to pay the amounts to the Kurdistan Regional Government.
Immediately commence the delivery of oil produced in the region to the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) or the Federal Ministry of Oil in accordance with paragraphs (a, b) of this clause, and the costs of production and transportation shall be compensated by the Federal Ministry of Finance as advances at a rate of $16 per barrel, to be settled later after the specialized technical advisory body referred to in paragraph (1) of this paragraph completes its work and retroactively from the date of commencement of delivery pursuant to this amendment.
Article 2 – This law shall be implemented from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Abdul Latif Jamal Rasheed president link
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Tishwash: Federal Reserve Praises Development of US Dollar Cash Distribution System in Iraq
The Central Bank announced, today, Sunday, the details of its meetings with the US Treasury and the US Federal Reserve.
The Central Bank stated in a statement received by / Al-Maalouma / agency, that “the first quarterly meetings for the year 2025 with the US Treasury and the US Federal Reserve, which were held in Dubai with the participation of international auditing and consulting firms (EY, K2 Integrity, Oliver Wyman), ended and the meetings were crowned with praise for the steps taken by the Central Bank of Iraq and the Iraqi government to reform the banking sector.”
He added that “the most important steps that have been taken are the development of the cash distribution system for the US dollar in Iraq, which they considered the most controlled and controlled system in the world, which limits manipulation and smuggling of the US dollar.”
The Central Bank explained that “the consulting firms (EY and Oliver Wyman) reviewed the plans to reform the public and private banking sector and upgrade it in line with international standards and to facilitate the involvement of Iraqi banks in the international financial relations network. international correspondent banks in the Iraqi banking sector.” link
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Tishwash: Regional Oil: The Path to Resuming Exports and Its Next Stages: New Hopes on the Road to Economic Recovery
Former member of the Natural Resources Committee in the Kurdistan Parliament, Jihad Hassan, commented today, Monday (February 17, 2025), on the statements of the Minister of Natural Resources in the regional government regarding the resumption of the region’s oil exports.
Hassan said in an interview with Baghdad Today, “This is an economic step that will revive the economy of the region and Iraq in general, and the matter was dependent on Baghdad and Ankara, as the region has been ready for a long time to export oil without any obstacles.”
On the other hand, the expert and advisor on oil affairs, Govind Sherwani, confirmed that “the President of the Republic signed the amendment to Article 12 of the budget law related to the allocations for production and transportation of the region’s oil, and this issue was the obstacle to resuming exports.”
In an interview with Baghdad Today on Monday (February 17, 2025), Sherwani said, “The law will come into effect after its publication in the Official Gazette, and with regard to the technical aspect, a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Oil visited the region to review the technical aspects.”
He added, “It is expected that within a week or the end of this month, the technical arrangements will be completed, and export will become possible. It is certain that the previous quantities, which are 400 thousand barrels per day, will not be, because these arrangements and the rehabilitation of the oil wells that were left for two years require a long time, and it may take more than 3 months to reach the previous rates.”
He pointed out that “the beginning will not be less than 250 thousand barrels exported daily, and it is possible that within a month or two, exports will return to 400 thousand barrels, and this is a new resource to raise the public treasury, especially since this oil can be marketed to European markets without any obstacles.”
At the beginning of 2025, new developments came in the amendment of Article 12 of the budget law, which paved the way for the resumption of oil exports from the Kurdistan Region. This step is considered an important solution to a legal problem that was hindering oil exports, and provides the region with an opportunity to enhance its economic revenues by exporting oil to global markets, especially European ones.
Despite the technical challenges facing the process of resuming exports, such as rehabilitating oil wells that have been out of service for two years, experts expect that the export process will begin in limited quantities, with the possibility of gradually increasing them in the coming months link
