According to the International Exhibition of Iranian Stone, the impact of the law on mining is one of the issues that has always been of interest to private sector activists. This section has often complained of weakness, transparency and interference with the rules. On the other hand, the deputies say that we do not have a legal weakness, but a problem in implementation.

Given that the country's oil revenues are currently declining due to sanctions and falling oil prices due to the global corona outbreak, many believe that if we want to rely on the mining sector, we must seriously address the problems in this area.

Comprehensive legislative system

Ezatullah Akbari Talarpashti, elected representative of Tehran's people in the 11th Islamic Consultative Assembly, pointed to the need to pay attention to the mining sector and said: "The impact of mining on GDP growth is very small, but if we have the right planning and the private sector enters this field." We will see a tremendous leap in the field of mining. He stressed: "For this important issue, we must eliminate the excuse of weak budget and financial problems."

A member of the Industries and Mines Commission in the fifth and eighth terms of the Islamic Consultative Assembly stated that the government should enter the exploration sector: "The basis of mining activities is exploration, that is, if we do not have exploration, extraction does not make sense." Let's be optimistic in other areas of the mine as well.

"Because of the importance of exploration, when I was elected chairman of the Industries and Mines Commission in the eighth parliament, I increased the budget for exploration by about 50 times," he said. The budget of this sector should be increased and the government should pay special attention to it.

In response to the question that some activists of the mining sector speak of the weakness of the transparency of the law, the representative of the people of Tehran in the parliament stated: In various areas, we must focus on comprehensive systems; This means that we have a comprehensive system of production, distribution, customs, banking, taxation, insurance, export and import. We need to create these systems and let everyone work together so that we do not see turmoil.

Akbari Talarpashti stated: The comprehensive system refines the laws, removes the annoying laws and sets the required laws; Therefore, if a comprehensive system is created, there will be a tremendous leap in the field of industry and mining, and this will make it impossible for us to see that tariffs and customs go one way and banks and insurance go the other way.

The elected representative of the people of Tehran in the 11th Majlis of the Islamic Consultative Assembly stated about the question of what is the first plan of the Majles for the growth of the mine: We are looking to develop comprehensive systems. Today in the world we are witnessing a war of incentives in the field of industry and production, but this is not the case in Iran and the incentives are very weak. If, like other countries, we increase incentives, we can pave the way for industry and mining. In the end, the leap in production is not just about words, but also about laws and regulations.

Amend some rules

Sayed Nematullah Haghighi, a mining company exploration expert in the private sector, said: "One of the biggest concerns of mining activists is the issue of legislation." In my opinion, the legislature should pay more attention to the mining sector.

Referring to the issue of oil, he said: "We have to accept that after the situation for oil, this mineral no longer has much of a place to meet the country's foreign exchange needs, and in the next decade it will certainly not be able to regain its position; Thus, paying serious attention to the mining sector and accepting that the mine is part of the country's economy can keep us afloat in the face of sanctions.

Referring to the role of the mine in providing liquidity to the country, the exploration expert said: "The mining sector is one of the economic sectors that has suffered the least damage in the face of sanctions." Therefore, we must consider the mine as one of the economic sectors of the country that can create jobs and is one of the most important sectors of foreign exchange supply in the country.

Haghighi continued: the parliament should emphasize the capability of the mining sector and change the laws. In this process, the legislature must establish supportive laws in the field of mining business. Given that miners have many problems in the field of mining, what the Eleventh Assembly can do is supportive legislation.

Referring to past laws in the country, the miner said: "The rules and regulations that were set in the mining sector in the 1940s were very strong, but unfortunately so much has been added to that note and parallel laws and regulations that no executive power is available." Not for them. In the field of legislation, the parliament should pay special and special attention to the legal obstacles to the development of the mining sector and the opportunities for domestic and foreign investment so that we can develop the mining sector based on domestic and foreign capacity.

He stressed that the mining economy is not like state oil and that the public sector forms it; So if the mine develops, it will become a people's economy and it will no longer be subject to sanctions.

Haghighi finally said: "We have laws in the mining sector that are appropriate, but we also have laws in natural resources and the environment that are in conflict with the mining laws; Therefore, proper monitoring should be done in the rules and regulations of the mining area. Legislators need to reform the laws related to mining using the capacities of private sector institutions, the Mining Engineering Organization, the Mining House, and chambers of commerce.