The head of the National Oil Corporation sent a correspondence to the Acting President of the Accounting Office in Tripoli, in which he referred to his correspondence about the Office’s prior control over the contracts of some parties,  specified exclusively in Article 24 of Law No. 9 of 2013 regarding the reorganization of the Office, including the contracts of oil companies.

The Corporation said that the Office’s claim of prior control over the contracts of oil companies is not legally valid based on the absence of a legal text, and that the legislative oversight legacy in Libya since its independence did not grant the regulatory bodies of all their names the competence to pre-control over the contracts of oil companies with explicit exemption or by not stipulating them or by administrative arrangements taken in particular, as Sanalla explained in several points, the opinion of the law administration.

Sanalla concluded his correspondence to Al-Messallati by calling for an immediate cessation of addressing oil companies regarding the issue of prior control over their contracts, and that his position is different in this regard.

Taken from Sada Website