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Law No.2 of 2022 on the Emergency Support for Food Security and Development.

Country/Territory
Iraq
Document type
Legislation
Date
2022
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Livestock, Energy, Food & nutrition, Cultivated plants, Water, General
Keyword
Subsidy/incentive Financing Social protection Special fund Poverty Desertification Fertilizers/nutrients Food security Irrigation Pesticides Hazards Animal feed/feedstuffs Drugs Animal health Plant production Waterworks
Geographical area
Asia, Middle East, Near East and North Africa, Persian Gulf, Western Asia
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force on the date of its vote and its approval by the House of Representatives.
Abstract

This Law consisting of 18 articles aims at allowing the government to transfer public funds to meet the urgent needs of Iraqis for food security, alleviating poverty, achieving financial stability in light of the global emergency developments, by providing services to citizens, raising their standard of living, creating job opportunities, maximizing the benefit from State resources, advancing development, resuming work on projects that have been stalled due to lack of financing, and proceeding with new projects. To this end, the Ministry of Finance created an account and allocated 25 trillion Iraqi dinars ($17.14 billion) for staple food supplies, gas and electricity, as well as payment of public servant salaries. Part of the amount will be destined, among others, to (i) finance the development of the Municipality of Baghdad (30%); (ii) develop regions of governorates that are not organized in a region and distributed according to population ratios and poverty for each governorate; (iii) the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs for programs of social protection and people with special needs; (iv) Ministry of Agriculture for providing support in the following: seeds of wheat, barley, rapeseed, forage barley and yellow corn, fertilizers, feed purchase, combat desertification, pesticides, veterinary medicine, irrigation systems, and agricultural planes, payment of previous dues for seeds; (v) Ministry of Petroleum; (vi) The Ministry of Construction and Housing to rebuild areas destroyed following terrorist attacks; (vii) Ministry of Water Resources; (viii) Ministry of Education.

Full text
Arabic
Website
moj.gov.iq