Agricultural Research and Water Resources Center (Regulation No. 13 of 1981)

REGULATIONS REGULATION No. (13) OF 1981 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND WATER RESOURCES CENTER In the Name of the People, The Presidency of the Republic In accordance with the provisions of Para (a) of Article 57 of the Interim Constitution, and clause (Firstly of Article (9), and Article 18 of Scientific Research Council Law No. (172) of 1980. The following Regulation is hereby promul gated : PART ONE THE AIMS OF THE CENTER AND MEANS OF THEIR REALIZATION Article 1 It is called the (Center) for the purpose of this regulation, which aims at preparing the researches, basic and aplicable studies aiming at developing and growing the water resources and agricultural wealth, and achieving the food secu rity for the country. Article 2 The Center endeavours to realize its aims stipulated in this regulation by the following means: Firstly - To achieve and enlarge the scientific co-operation with the State Office and the Socialist Sector concerned with the Centre competence, the matter which rescues the maximum benefit from the results of the research and studies in both sides. Secondly - To encourage and support the move ment of the agricultural and scientific research in the country. The Official Gazette No. (14) 6 Thirdly - Introducing the scientific consultations in the field of its competence to the State Offices and the socialist sector and other sides. Fourthly - Gathering and coordinating the in formation, data, references and different necessary documents to march with the technological development in the scope of the center competence. Fifthly - Coordination with the scientific affairs office in the center of the council, regar ding the establishment and developing of the cultural and scientific relation ships with the similar Arab and interna tional authorities outside the country, including the scientific covenants con tract and exchanging the specialists and experts in order to march with the modern scientific and technological developments and exchanging the infor mation and experiences. Sixthly - Arranging the conferences and semi nars, scientific meetings and study association and training courses by coordination with scientific affairs office in the center of the council in order to develop the specialized cader and grow ing the scientific attention in the coun try, and participating in the similar activities inside and outside the country. Seventhly - Affording the necessary cader of researchers and their assistants, and the ever endeavouring to develop their expertizes and knowledge. Eighthly - Affording the necessities and requi rements of work in Center, such as, fields, laboratories and workshops and supply them with the necessary app aratus and equipments. Ninthly - Issuing the magazines and bulletins and scientific reports by coordination and cooperation with the Scientific Archives Center. 7.4.1982 REGULATIONS PART TWO Article 3 Firstly - Board of Directors, is the highest power in the Center, that directs and supervises over its works and put the general policies for it within the plan of the Scientific Res earch Council and the policies of the scien tific research. Secondly - With a decision from the head of the Scientific Research, the Council is consisted of : A. Director General of the Center - Head. B. Director General of the general body for the applicable agricultural research in the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform - Member. C. A representative for the Ministry of Irrigation with the grade of director general in the least whom the Minister of Irrigation nominates - Member. D. Two of the staff teachers in the Iraqi universities in the level of assistant professor in the least whom the Minis ter of the Higher Education and Scien tific Research nominates - Members. E. A representative for the State Organi zation for Food Industries in the Mini stry of Industry and Minerals in the grade of director general in the least, whom the Miniser of Industry and Minerals shall nominate - Member. F. An expert in the agricultural develop ment whom the director general of the Center shall nominate - Member. G. Two of the heads of the scientific divis ions in the Center whom the Director General of the Center shall nominate Members . Thirdly - The term of the membership in the board of directors is three years renewable. The Official Gazette No. (14) 7 Article 4: In order to achieve the purposes of the Center, the board of directors may practise the following competences and powers :~ Firstly - Studying and confirming all initial plans of the Center in the light of the instruc tions of the Scientific Research Council supervising and following up their execution after confirming their final form. Secondly - Studying and confirming the general policies in the scientific, financial and administrative scopes of the Center. Thirdly - Evaluating the final results for the research projects which the Center prepares and following up its execution. Fourthly - Discussing and confirming the annual report of the Center, and treating the problems and hindrances which stand in the way of the Center work. Fifthly - Preparing the material and human necessities for the Center which enables it to execute its plans and programs. Sixthly - Evaluating the researchers working in the Center, promoting them in accor dance with the rules of the researchers service in the Scientific Research Council and the instructions of the scientific promotion. Seventhly - Creating sections for the divisions stipulated in this regulation, and recom mending to create new divisions or cancelling or combining some divisions. Eighthly - Consenting to construct laboratories or scientific stations subordinate to the Center in the different governorates of the country. Ninthly - Proposing the drafts of laws, regula tion and instructions concerning the Center activity. 7.4.1982 REGULATIONS Tenthly - Issuing the internal instructions con cerning the scientific, financial accoun ting, administrative affairs, and the personnel affairs in the Center. Eleventhly - Recommendation to join the country with the Arab and international agree ments and deciding the participation in the conferences, seminars, and studying association concerning the activity of the Center, by approval of the compe tent authorities and forming the coope ration between the center and the Uni versal Institute in its specialization. Twelfthly - Proposing the creation of the titles of the jobs and adding them to the attached schedules with the rules of service in force by what suits the nature of the Center works. Thirteenthly- - Studying the suggestions regar ding the development and enlarging the works of the Center, and issuing the decision concerning them. Fourteenthly - Discussing any of the subjects concerning the works and activities of the Center, and issuing the necessary decision thereto. Fifteenthly - Doing all procedures and legal acts to realize the aims of the Center in accor dance with the law provisions. Sixteenthl'y - Entitling some of its powers to the Director General of the Center accord ing to the law. Article 5 Firstly - The board of directors shall meet once amonth at least by an invitation of its persident. The invitation shall be served to the members, three days before the appointed date, enclosed with the agenda. Secondly - The Director General of the Center shall have to invite the board of direc The Official Gazette No. (14) 8 tors to meeting at any time which four of the members ask thereto. Thirdly - The Chairman of the Scientific Resea rch Council shall have to ask the board of directors to meeting, and he may attend any of its meetings. Then he will have the Presidency of the session and vote the decisions. The decision of the majority by which the Chairman of the Scientific Research Council had voted shall be considered certified and should be executed. Fourthly - The Quorum shall be considered valid if most of the members attend includ ing the Director General of the Center, decisions shall be issued by the majority of the attendants votes. In case of equal votes, the side of which the Director General voted shall have a casting vote. Fifthly - The decisions of board of directors shall be sent to the Chairman of the Scientific Research Council to be cer tified before its execution and it will be considered testified if it is not ob jected within fifteen days from the date of its coming to the center of the Coun cil. If the Chairman of the Scientific Research Center objected 'any of the decisions of the board of directors, it shall be shown again to the board of directors. If it insisted on his decision, the subject will be submitted again to another meeting for the board of direc tors headed by the Chairman of the Scientific Research Council, and the decision of the boards of directors in this regard, shall be final. Sixthly - The Chairman of the Scientific Resea rch Council shall have to entitle the board of directors the power to execute some of the decisions without showing it to be testified, provided that it should 7.4.1982 REGULATIONS be limited in the letter of entitlement of the essence of these decisions . Seventhly - The board of directors shall appoint one of the Center staff to carry out the works of the center who undertakes the preparation of the usual and excep tional meeting agenda, and serving them to the Chairman and members of the board of directors, and arranging the minutes, and submitting them to the Chairman of the Scientific Research Council to be testified. Eighthly - The Chairman of the board of direc tors may direct the invitation to whom he sees of experience and specialization who works in the Center, or outside the Center, to attend the meetings of the board of directors in order to be pleased with their opinions. PART THREE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE CENTER Article 6 Firstly - The Director General is the highest chief of the Center. The decisions and orders are issued in his name, and he represents the Center or his deputy, before courts or committees and boards, state offices, the socialist and mixed sectors the natural and juristic persons, and everything concerns the Center. He is responsible in front of the Chair man of the Scientific Research Council for all works and activities of the Center. Secondly - The Director General of the Center shall carry out the following duties : A. Supervising over preparation of the first plan project of the Center including the scientific Research plans and the financial, investing and importing plans, and the plan of personnel, and executing them after confirming it in its final shape. B. Executing the decisions of board of directors. C. Preparing the suggestion of the annual balance of the Center with in the annual balance of the Scien tific Research Council, and sub mitting it to the board of directors to confirm it in advance to be unified with the balances of the other Centers attached to the Scientific Research Council. D. Introducing the reports to the Cen ter of Scientific Research Council and the board of directors once every three months about the pro cess of the Center works, and pro posing the solutions to treat the problems facing it. E. Supervising the works of the Center, and ever endeavouring to develop them, and improving the performance of those working therin. F. Limiting the employment level and the employment qualification for the officials of the sub-divisions of the divisions in the Center, and repeating the distribution of the persons working therein in accor dance with the dividings mentioned in this regulation. G. Practising the authorizations enti tled legally for him, or by the board of directors. H. Creating units for the sections in the divisions of the Center. 1. Entitling some of his authoriza tions to the other officials in the Center in what secures the flowing of the work. . , ...J-. The Official Gazette No. (14) 9 7.4.1982 REGULATIONS PART FOUR DIVISIONS OF THE CENTER Article 7 The Center is composed of the following divisions, which they all join the Director Gene ral of the Center directly: Firstly - Vegetarian production division; it under takes preparation of the field, indus trial, fodder, vegetables and fruit crops researchs, and activities of the plant nourishment, manure, bringing up, multiplication and research of plants protection and mechanization of the agricultural production and densing it, and studying the agricultural environ ment, and developing the vegetable cover and pasture lands in what secures the increasing of the production of vegetables and improving its quality. Secondly - Division of Date-plams and Dates. It aims to develop the planting of the date-palms and improving the quality of the dates through programming of researches in the scope of multiplication of date-palms and growing it and com bating its blights, and improving its production and raising the dates indu stry and lifting the value of dates economically in addition to preparing studies and researches in the enviro nmental plantations being with it. and resolvi~g the problems of the date-palms and dates and keeping this wealth. Thirdly - Division of Animal Production. It undertakes developing and grow ing the animal wealth, by carrying out the programmes of researches in the scopes of bringing up and improving and nourishing and management and animal health, and storing, marketing and manufacturing the animal produc tion and improving their quality. It includes the economical animals like sheep, cows poultry and others. Fourthly - Water Resources Division. It shall undertake procedure of the research to develope water resources and studying its suitability for agricultural purposes and following up its process, studying the different water needs for the agricu ltural production and how to exploit water and the ideal employing for using. It includes also the researches in irriga tion and plans engineering fitted for subterranean and surface water. Stud-, ies of climate and rain and other which affect those resources. Different hydro logical studies. Fifthly - Soil and Land Reclamation Division. It shall carry out the researches which lead to improve the qualifications of soils kinds and their suitability and lifting their production. They include the topographical and morfological soil research and its chemical, physical and biotical characters, and applicable res earch which help in reclamation of different lands and keeping its fertillity. Sixthly - Administrative Division. It shall under take the administrative works concer ning the Center activities, including the preparation of personnel (Cadre) plan and organizing the persons affairs who work in the Center, administrating the mail affairs and storing, presenting the different administrative services, and doing all accounting works concerning the expenses and revenues of the Center. Seventhly - Private Services Unit. It shall under take the arrangement of appointments, meetings and contacting of the Direc tor General of the Center and assisting him in arranging the programmes and minutes of board of directors, the com mittees which the Director General The Official Gazette No. (14) 10 7.4.1982 REGULATIONS heads or participates in arranging the mail affairs and confidential keeping, supervising over the correspondences of the Director General. PART l<'IVE GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 8 Firstly - A scientific consultative board shall be compared in the Center presided by the Director General and membership of the heads of divisions and other dividings joining the Director General directly. Secondly • The staff of the scientific research working the Center divisions and other dividings joined with the Director General of the Center, shall elect rep resentatives on their behalf in the com mittee stipulated in item (Firstly) of this Article, in a rate of one represen tative per each dividing, by the direct secret ballot annually, provided that the elected member should be in a scientific research rank at least. Thirdly The committee stipulated in item (Firstly) of this Article, shall meet twice a month. The Director General of the Center may have to invite the committee to exceptional meetings. Fourthly - This committee shall discuss the scien tific financial and administrative mat ters on which the Director General sub mit, and discuss the different plans and policies of the Center, and introducing the recommendations in this regards. Fifthly - The Director General of the Center shall have to invite the one whom he thinks of experience and competence who works in the Center to attend the meetings stipulated in item (Firstly) of this Article. Sixthly - The Director General is not responsible for the recommendations of the commi ttee stipulated in item (Firstly) of this Article. Article 9 Firstly - The divisions stipulated in the items (Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, Fourthly, and Fifthly) of Article 7 of this regula tion, shall be presided by an official with a scientific researcher rank at least. He shall be assigned by a decis ion from the Chairman of the Scientific Research Council nominated by the Director General of the Center. Secondly - The administrative division stipulated in item (Sixthly) of Article 7 of this regulation, shall be presided by an official with an international university certificate, and has qualifications and characteristics which enable him to take the responsibility, and shall be assigned by a decision from the Chairman of the Scientific Research Council with a nomi nation from the Director General of the Center. Article 10 The regulation of Date-Palms and Dates Research Center No. (62) of 1968 shall be can celled. Article 11 Instructions may be issued to facilitate the execution of the provisions of the Regulation. Article 12 This Regulation shall come into force as from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. Made at Baghdad this 11th day of Jamadi Al-Awal of 1401 and the 17th day of March 1981. Saddam Hussain President of the Republic (Published in the Alwaqai Aliraqiya (Ar. Edit.) No. 2826 of- 20.4:1981). The Official Gazette No. (14) 11 7.4.1982 . -------~