President
Based on the provisions of the Constitution and as approved by the People's Assembly at its meeting held on the date of 21-16-1431 A.H., 3-6 2010 is my birth.

The following are issued:

Chapter I
Definitions

Article 1

The following terms shall be intended wherever, in this law, the meanings set forth in each of them:
Minister: Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform
Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform
Office: Cotton Desk.

Chapter II
Organization of cotton cultivation

Article 2

Cotton cultivation is subject to prior authorization by the Ministry.

Article 3

The Minister decided by decision of the Minister to establish the necessary measures to regulate the cultivation of cotton and develop its production and the varieties that are allowed to be cultivated in each region.

Chapter III
Organization of the work of the workshop

Article 4

a. No spiral laboratory may be operated without prior authorization from the Office.
b. The conditions for granting the permit shall be determined by decision of the Minister.
c. The dates for the expiration of the cotton orchid shall be determined by decision of the Minister or by the person authorized to do so.

Article 5

a. To be determined and organized by a decision of the Minister based on the proposal of the Bureau:
1. Clean cotton, exhaust and waste of cotton.
2. The plaster shall receive, classify and sort the cotton and its products and transport them from the plaster.
3. Transfer of exhaust, waste and cotton residues from Al-Mahhalj, spinning and weaving companies, cotton seed companies and the movement of cotton seeds in the contemporary.
4. Licensing, pistons and monitoring of their work and records.
b. To be determined and regulated by a decision of the Minister based on the proposal of the public institution for the propagation of seeds, conditions and specifications for the treatment of agricultural seeds resulting from the conditions of the plant.

Article 6

Every shelter must maintain a permanent record, in which the quantity of the beloved cotton, which is contained in the volume and the quantities of cotton, which is plowed daily and its output from the hair, the seeds, and what is transmitted from the seeds, according to the prepared model, shall be entitled to the relevant personnel of the Ministry or the Bureau at any time on this record. Validation of the data and information contained therein.

Article 7

a. Cotton seeds may be exported outside the country except with the ministry's approval and in coordination with the Ministry of Industry. The transfer of cotton seeds within the country needs prior authorization from the office.
b. Cotton exhaust generated by decomposing is exported after obtaining prior authorization from the office.
c. Terms of export and transfer shall be determined by decision of the Minister.

Article 8

a. The licensee of the cotton seed oil extraction industry maintained a permanent record, in which the movement of the seeds and quantities of the seeds was recorded.
b. The relevant staff of the Office shall be entitled at any time to the present record and to verify the validity of the data and information contained in it.

Article 9

When a decision has been issued to confiscate beloved or plowed cotton, cotton seeds, or minions, as they are not licensed, whether the confiscation is the result of official seizure or the news of the employees of the State or others, the value of the confiscated materials and fines is distributed by virtue of a judicial ruling, according to Mile:
70 percent of the state treasury fund.
10 percent of the county's productive plan fund.
10 percent for the news.
10 percent for two sources.
In the absence of a beneficiary, its share of the State General Treasury fund is not available.

Chapter IV
Export, import and transit through the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic

Article 10

It is strictly forbidden to export the unreserved beloved cotton or enter it into Syrian territory or pass it through.

Article 11

a. The importation of cotton, seeds, fluff and exhaust, or the passage of such materials through Syrian Arab lands, is subject to prior authorization by the Ministry.
b. The importation, propagation, circulation or sale of locally generated seeds in the Ministry shall be limited to the import of cotton seeds.
c. By decision of the Minister, the terms of import, traffic and the type of materials specified in paragraphs (a-b) of this article and methods of manufacture, storage and disposal shall be determined by decision of the Minister.

Chapter V
Seed production locally for agriculture

Article 12

a. Agricultural cotton beware may be produced locally only by the Cotton Research Department and the Public Foundation for Exalbars.
b. The Ministry or the commissioner shall select the approved farmers to plant seeds for breeding in special fields according to the propagation programmes and according to the specifications of seed bags and conditions will be determined with the farmers with the participation of their representatives.
c. To be determined by the decision of the Minister, the description of the movement of the beloved cottons.
d. No one who obtained an agricultural cotton beware shall sell it.

Article 13

a. The agricultural cottons whose seeds will be allocated under the prior authorization of the ministry or the public authority to which they are authorized are being solved and determined by the minister's decision to provide the conditions to be provided in these cotton.
b. If the use of agricultural beware falls from one season to another, it may not be traded or cultivated until it has been re-examined by the Ministry or by the public authority to which it is authorized and approved for agriculture.

Chapter VI
Cotton sorting, moisture control and export

Article 14

The cotton is subject to control, classification, humidity, transport and exportation to the control of the bureau, and the bases of this control and the ranks of the Syrian cotton, its parties and humidity are regulated and determined by the minister's decision.

Article 15

a. The office shall grant graduates of the faculties of agriculture, agricultural and textile institutes after qualification a certificate of sorting and classification of cotton, and no other side may grant such a certificate.
b. The conditions, specifications and benefits of such certification shall be determined by decision of the Minister.

Article 16

It prevents the mixing of the lower ranks of the lower ranks, which are called the rank of the lowest of which the highest rank is mixed.

Article 17

Each of the bales must bear the name and symbol of the skid that you have resolved and that the bales meet the conditions set by the bureau.

Article 18

formed by a decision of the minister based on the proposal of the bureau to arbitral of issues and controversies related to mixing cotton, humidity, exhaust, and the exhaust of spinning and weaving plants, one of them is primitive and other appeals, and each committee is made up of a president and five members, with two members of each committee to be members of each committee. The author of the relationship and determines the decision to compensate the President and members of the respective Committees and the assets of their respective work.

Article 19

The decisions of the Committee are considered rudimentary as the decisions of the sorting and export control authority of the Office are considered to be concluded if the author of the relationship does not request the office to appeal the decision within fifteen days of the date that it is communicated to it and if the decision to appeal the decision is returned by the Appeals Commission It is set out in article 18 of this Law and its decision is not subject to any means of appeal or review.

Article 20

The cotton, which is decided by the committees referred to in Articles 18-19, will be converted into domestic consumption if the mixing is in the same way or converts the offending bales to local consumption and allows the remaining export-matching machines to be exported.

Article 21

The sorting body of the office is entitled to change the model cotton model of cotton, and may only be exported to the modified model if the owner of the relationship does not resume.

Article 22

The exporting entity must maintain a record of the quantities of cotton that is actually issued on its behalf and the source and the source of it, and the competent staff of the Office shall be entitled to access such records at any time and to validate the data and information received. in which the cotton is required to be exported to the contracted specifications.

Article 23

The cotton, its exhaust, and the exhaust of spinning and weaving plants may not be exported before obtaining a prior license from the office or who is authorized to do so by the ministry's stakeholders, including the required data and granting such a license after ascertaining the conformity of the cotton and its exhaust to the provisions of this law and the specifications. The required technical assistance was provided by a special committee for screening and export control at the sorting and classification laboratories in the office.

Chapter VII
Lovable cotton marketing organization

Article 24

a. The beloved cottons may only be transported by a certificate of origin and determine how to grant them and circulate them by decision of the Minister.
b. The beloved cottons of marketers are tired of a regular shakol with certain specifications that are determined by the minister's decision. These cottons are homogeneous and free of objects and strange objects, cotton, cotton and others.

Article 25

a. By decision of the Minister of Technical Committees, whose task is to consider the objection of the producers to the specifications of the sorting of their countries headed by a representative of the Bureau, whose membership is represented by a representative of Al-Mahalj and another from the Union of Peasants and its decisions are concluded.
b. The mission, work assets and compensation of these committees shall be determined in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.

Chapter VIII
General rules and penalties

Article 26

a. The officials of the Ministry assigned to the task of the judicial officer have the authority to regulate the octopus against the provisions of this law and the decisions under which it is issued and works with such an octopus until it is proven otherwise.
b. The staff assigned to the task of the judicial officer are called the Minister's decision.
c. The officers of the officer are sworn in before the Civil Start Court in their area of work.
d. Workers competent under the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be entitled to inspect the records previously mentioned in this Act.
e. If the offence is located inside the house, these dwellings may be entered only with the permission of the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Article 27

The following acts are punishable by imprisonment from fifteen to three months and a fine of 5,000 to fifteen thousand Syrian pounds, all of the following acts:
1. Possession of cotton seeds for trading.
2. Planting of cotton seeds for items not allowed for cultivation in the area where they were cultivated.
3. Transfer of cotton seeds without authorization from the ministry or office.
4. Possession and unauthorized investment.
5. Investment of a piston or without a licence.
6. Transfer of cotton waste and exhaust with intent to export without a licence from the ministry or office.

Article 28

In addition to the penalties provided for in the previous article 27, the shelter, its minions, the piston, the beet, the beloved cotton, the plaster, the seeds in which it is present, and the exhaust are confiscated and handed over to the general institution for the production of cotton and the marketing of cotton.

Article 29

a. A penalty of fifteen to three months or a fine of a thousand to ten thousand Syrian pounds shall be punished by the following actions:
1. The transfer of beloved cotton out of the administrative limit without a certificate of origin contrary to the instructions issued by the Ministry.
2. Possession of beloved countries in unreserved places or assembly centres.
3. Possession of a beloved one without a license.
b. Seed seeds and cottons seized as a result of the offences specified in paragraph (a) above and delivered to the General Organization for Haling and Marketing of Cotton.

Article 30

It is punishable by imprisonment from three months to six months and a fine of ten thousand Syrian pounds for each ton or its parts thereof to bring the beloved cotton into the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and take it out of the Syrian Arab Republic and govern with the confiscation of these cotton.

Article 31

A fine is punishable by a fine of 500 Syrian pounds per ton, or its parts, all those who add strange objects and materials to the beloved ones, which are marketed to the public enterprise and the marketing of cotton or in the event that it uses a shell that violates the specifications, and the institution settels three times the weight of objects and materials. Exotic from the weight of his supplier's tan.

Article 32

If another law provides for a penalty for the same act that is more severe than the penalty provided for in this Act, the most severe punishment shall be applied.

Article 33

The Minister shall issue decisions governing the implementation of the provisions of this Act.

Article 34

Act No. 222 of 1958 and other provisions of the offence are terminated.

Article 35

This Act is published in the Official Gazette and operates on the date of its promulgation.
Damascus at 2-7-1431 A.H., 136-2010, my birth.

President
Bashar al-Assad

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