Expert: the economy needs the participation of commercial organizations in policy-making
Confirmed its role in increasing growth rates
BAGHDAD – Fulayyih Heidar al-Rubaie
Stressed economic expert on the importance and role of organizations and trade associations in the process of enactment and the legislation of laws for the regulation of the work of the private sector, stressing that the establishment of these formations is one of the directions right and ambitious and civilization that is consistent with the economic developments taking place in most countries of the free world that has become very necessary for integration into the economic life International for its role in the acquisition of membership organizations, global business, such as the WTO and the International Monetary Fund and free trade agreements, stressing that what is required of these organizations at this time is to address the leadership of the business in Iraq through a serious contribution to economic policy of the state and participate in the legislation of laws and trade regulations and played an active role in monitoring and implementation of these laws.
But he also said that “this role depends on the capacity and efficiency of the leaders of these organizations and the amount of understanding of the state institutions and officials for this role, in contrast to what is happening at the present time to ignore and disregard for economic organizations natural in the real contribution and participation in the formulation of laws and trade legislation.”
Importance of the free economy
Ali Aziz, the only Speaking (morning): The Iraqi arena after 2003 saw the emergence of economic organizations are many and varied disciplines and trends covered a large area of private economic activity to a total of at the present time more than sixty formation between the Union and the Organization of Society and the Association of economic non-governmental throughout Iraq and the number of its members more than two million members in all provinces in the country.
This was consistent and compatible with the Declaration directed the new state to adopt the theory of a free economy and guaranteed by the Constitution of the country’s new and who considered the private sector commander of the economic activity and limiting the role of the state planning and policy-making, supervision and follow-up and provide support and support for the private sector and to ensure market stability and contribute to advancing the development and construction to forward.
The division of economic organizations
And only that these organizations are divided according to the nature of its work into several groups, represented the first of which organizations head large and long established exceeds the number of its members tens of thousands, ranging in levels into several grades according to the efficiency and financial capability. Membership which vary between wage earners and small traders down to the traders adults and practiced a wide variety of businesses of importers, exporters and wholesale buyers, marketers and retailers then wholesalers single for the various types of goods, while a second group organizations elitist with a limited number of members of senior businessmen and contractors shall not exceed the number of members in each 500 members, and features of these organizations relations excellence with senior state officials and decision-makers which, including the National Business Council and Business Association and others, and refers only to the third group includes organizations specializing exercise specific types of economic activity and the appropriate number of members with the size of workers in this activity as a link food retailers and assembly industry and the Association of Banks and the Association of Women business and others, The Fourth, organizations, economic development with a limited number of members and is working on the preparation of studies and research in the field of rehabilitation and training of its members to learn the English language and computer, including the Iraqi Economy Development Center and Economic Development Association and the Association for the Development of the Iraqi economy, etc., and noted expert that the fifth group is in the unions and chambers of commerce in common with other countries, and includes members interested in trading with these countries, including the Chamber of Commerce, Iraq – U.S. and Iraqi chambers of commerce – the Iranian and Turkish Business Council, the Iraqi French and others, while the group included six unions and business organizations and other miscellaneous Kalmkhalchin Alcomerkyin, accountants, auditors, contractors and associations common industrial – commercial and others.
The drafting of commercial laws
He said only that these organizations, an extensive presence among the segments of trade, and play an important role in guiding this activity and provide various administrative Katsoad members identities of tariff and written support to government institutions to engage in the bidding and pledges and auctions, and other or written support to the embassies and foreign institutions for the purpose of obtaining visas to these countries for business or for participation in exhibitions and conferences that are held in which, as well as having important roles in solving disputes and problems occurring among its members and others in the areas of business and arbitration.
He pointed to the importance of taking these organizations undertook to participate in the drafting of commercial laws that are often surprised by these organizations, like other members of the family business and then begins its role in responding to these laws, legislation and regulation activities opposition to the application of non-compliance and appropriateness of reality and also received the Law of the customs tariff and instructions for testing standardization and quality control and others, which caused a sensation by the family business still Achkaladtha list so far, prompting the government demand to these organizations to intervene to persuade members of the usefulness of the application of this legislation, and also that the relationship is between the government and its organs on the one hand and between the private sector representative Bnizath different tense relationship based on suspicion and mistrust and suspicion between the two sides because of the accumulated cultural background of the staff of the government and the inherent over the decades of central control of the state.
He said only that the shift from the approach the Socialist to approach the free (set by the Constitution and the state-sponsored nominally) in economic theory at the level of practical application needs to cultural background and social based on a true understanding of the variables of the new state policy and the way their performance and that is for the private sector a leading role in building the modern state and prosperity of its economy, and forms of this new relationship is to build a healthy relationship and true with civil society organizations in general and particularly the economic ones and improve their performance to build a prosperous society and to achieve prosperity
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