Financial transformative bill approved in Egyptian Senate on a provisional basis


On Sunday, the Consultative upper house of Egypt had approved a new general unified financial law but the decision was only made provisionally. The Senate passed the law in order to upgrade the system drafting the state’s annual budget.

Through this, the government will focus on giving equal weightage to economic reform plans and as per the speaker of the Senate Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razek, the law will also work towards enhancing the objectives of the government which are majorly put forward with respect to the socio-economic development agendas.

According to the deputy speaker Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka, “These two pieces of legislation were passed a long time ago and so have become unable to keep pace with the latest changes in the area of drafting state budgets and using digital and mechanised systems in this respect.”

One of the core reasons why this bill or law was introduced in the Senate was because the government wanted to merge two pieces of legislation among which, one represents the annual state budget and the other one is the government accounting, into a single bill and direct it towards easier management of the financial matters.

Majority of the top Egyptian officials said that the new bill will cater to the smoothing of economic processes of the country. The government is planning to bring out the best kind of reform with economy and structuring in mind and world on its amalgamation with modern international methods.

Senator Ilhab Zakaria said that he hopes that the government will focus on proper imposition of the law by following detailed regulations and conducting training courses for state employees so that it figures compulsory implementation. “I think that executive regulations are in many cases more important than the law itself,” said Senate Speaker Abdel-Razek.

The recently drafted law will be used to improve the financial performance of Egypt, especially on the internal level asserted by the Senate’s Financial, Economic, and Investment Affairs Committee.

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