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Government freezes "the oil and gas law," and proceeds to have a new draft Sat Jun 06 2015 23:12 | (Voice of Iraq) - Baghdad Government freezes "the oil and gas law," and proceeds to have a new draft. The federal government has cancelled all previous versions and formed a committee to form a new draft which is consistent with reality and current conditions. Ruled out of the Oil and Energy Committee in the House of Representatives pass the oil and gas law during the next few days, attributed to the political differences, but it confirms that the preparation of the new draft will then negotiate with all political blocs. And it spins a sharp disagreement about who holds the export and marketing of oil, while the federal government believes that the export of oil must be cross-SOMO, demanding that the Kurdistan region will be done through a private company. He says Razak Mahabs, a member of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary told the "long", "The Oil and Gas Law of the contentious between the political blocs, specifically between Kurdish blocs and the central government laws," pointing out that "there is a paper political agreement was drafted during the formation of the government states the adoption of this law. " The Commission on oil and energy in the House of Representatives confirmed, earlier, it is working on legislation oil and gas law for the service-producing provinces. The move drew to the enactment of laws to cover all provinces in petro-dollars, noting that work on the legislation the law of the Iraqi National Oil Company. He adds Mahabs "There is a committee set up within the government, headed by Haidar al-Abbadi undertook a review of all the controversial bills in the forefront of the oil and gas law," stressing that "this law is under study within the Council of Ministers."