Land hinder investment in Iraq
Journal July 10, 2017
BAGHDAD
- The Journal News
said the parliamentary Committee of Economy and Investment, said the land constituted a major obstacle to activating the investment in the country, indicating that the strengthening of the movement of investment in the country needs to activate a package of important laws.

The committee member Najiba Najib's «Journal News», that "land in the whole of Iraq is governed by a set laws are not consistent or inconsistent with the current reality and with the Constitution, which emphasizes the privatization of the private sector and encourage the industry and other sectors, which constitute an obstacle to investors wishing to set up investment projects" .

She added: "There are a number of measures taken by the government, in addition to a set of laws legislated by the parliament to address these problems, including the rent of agricultural land, as well as taking out land and orchards located within the municipal boundaries of the law."

She explained that "the Committee on Parliamentary Economy and Investment to await further package come to the parliament of the government's laws in order to take advantage of this form of land, which removes the legal and technical obstacles to the competent authorities for the establishment of industrial cities."

She stressed that "the investment law, which was enacted by the House of Representatives came to encourage the establishment of investment cities and how to find facilities from the relevant authorities in the governorates to establish industrial cities."

And it called for the need for a will to implement the laws issued "because the legislative and executive power both law enforcement and two meanings modified to serve these territories over the past decades subject to the laws are irrelevant and not suitable for this time."

Experts territory and confirms that are currently available for the establishment of industrial cities are on agricultural land are not valid for the establishment of such a city, and stressed the need to avoid this constraint, whether by the Ministry of Industry or the rest of the other productive sectors. https://www.aljournal.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AB%D9%85%D8%A7%D 8%B1-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82/