Ben Abd al-Rahman chairs a meeting of the government

During its weekly meeting, the government studied a number of important files, according to the Prime Minister’s statement.

The Prime Minister, Ayman bin Abd al-Rahman, chaired, on Wednesday, a meeting of the government, which was held at the government palace, devoted to studying three preliminary bills, as well as to making presentations related to the fields of energy transition and mines.

The government has studied both the final version of the preliminary draft of the law related to the protection and preservation of state lands, and the preliminary draft of a law defining the general rules related to public transactions, as well as the preliminary draft of the law related to forests and forest resources.

In this regard, the Minister of Finance presented, in a second reading, a preliminary draft law that defines the general rules related to public procurement and aims to better frame public procurement, ensure its effectiveness and promote the building of a productive and competitive economy, while encouraging both production and the tool of local production, especially small enterprises. Or very small and emerging enterprises.

The preliminary draft of this law also aims to better enshrine the governance of the public application, by ensuring an optimal application of the basic principles related to freedom of access to the public application, equal treatment of candidates, transparency in procedures, and the good use of public funds.

The draft text provides for the dematerialization of the procedures for concluding public procurement, within the framework of the will to digitize the administration.

Establishing private companies in the field of air transport

The government meeting also recorded the study of a draft executive decree amending Executive Decree No. 2000-43 of February 26, 2000, which specified the conditions and modalities for the exploitation of air services, presented by the Minister of Transport.

The amendment of this executive decree comes within the framework of implementing the instructions of the President of the Republic to finalize the files deposited to open private air carriers that meet international standards.

This endeavor aims to facilitate private operators’ access to privilege in the field of air transport, with the aim of making Algeria a pivotal pole and a transit gateway to African and Asian countries.

On the other hand, the government listened to a presentation by the Minister of the Interior, Local Communities and Urban Planning on: the economic public lighting program, and the project to equip departmental cars with the liquefied natural gas (SERGAS) system.

The Economic Public Lighting Program aims to achieve effectiveness in the field of public lighting management across all municipalities of the country, in order to reduce the effects of energy consumption on the environment and ensure better control over local budgets.

Adoption of a roadmap for the completion of a zinc and lead mine in Oued Amizur

As for the project to equip the departments’ vehicles with the liquefied natural gas supply system, an evaluation presentation was made on the progress of this process, which falls within the framework of implementing the national policy for energy efficiency.

It is worth recalling that the public authorities had decided to convert one million vehicles to run on liquefied natural gas as a fuel in the horizons of the year 2030, by converting the entire car park of public administrations from running on petrol to running on liquefied natural gas, as well as through incentive measures for the benefit of private individuals, such as Approving a financial subsidy for the benefit of private individuals, and exempting vehicles that run on liquefied natural gas from the car voucher.

Finally, the Minister of Energy and Mines gave a presentation on the progress of the project to exploit the zinc and lead mine in Oued Amizour, Bejaia Province.

The feasibility studies related to this project showed that it is an economically profitable project with definite benefits for the region and the country. Accordingly, the government studied and approved the road map to complete this project in the best conditions and in the shortest possible time.