Kerbala University Holding a Scientific Symposium Entitled “Legal Protection of National Products”

     With the participation on a number of researchers and specialists, The Faculty of Law at Kerbala University has hold a scientific symposium entitled “Legal Protection of National Products” .

 The symposium aims to clarifying the legal aspect of protecting the national product, preventing import and encouraging the local product in accordance with Iraqi law and protecting consumers, as well as producers to protect national production, improve it, and advance the economic reality of the country. It deals with the civil protection of national products. The symposium sheds light on the necessity of activating the competent supervisory bodies by identifying the supplied goods that flood the local market with similar products manufactured locally as well as supporting the  private sector of the country.

      The symposium recommends that positive laws should be activated by the competent state authorities, most notably the Iraqi Consumer Protection Law, and the Iraqi Product Protection Law to achieve the necessary protection, improving it to ensure competition from foreign products, and imposing duties and taxes on foreign products,

      The symposium also focuses on the competent state ministries to carry out all their duties and provide the necessary support to local producers in order to increase the local product of all kinds, and to compel the government media such as the Iraqi media network to provide special advertising programs and granting facilities to national producers while spreading the culture of supporting the local product by citizens