Held Up Laws 2005- 2021

  • Proposal for a law amending Article 350 of the Customs Law.

  • Proposal for a law regarding the strict suppression of the offense of opposition to customs officials on duty.

  • Proposal for a law aiming to approve an official uniform for the administrative staff in the Customs Administration.

  • Proposal for a law aiming to amend Article 136 of the Customs Law.

  • Proposal for a law aimed at excluding confiscators in customs cases from the provisions of Article 81 and giving them a share equivalent to 16% of the value of the fine, regardless of the value of this amount.

  • Proposal for a law aiming to amend the first paragraph of Article 361 of the Customs Law.

  • Proposal for an urgent and expedited law to allow employees of public institutions and independent companies’ employees to choose between a retirement pension or end-of-service compensation upon retirement, similar to public administration employee.

  • Proposal for an urgent and expedited law aimed at amending the second paragraph of Article 3 of Law No. 194 (Protecting the areas affected by the explosion in the port of Beirut and supporting their reconstruction).

  • Proposal for an urgent and expedited law amending Article 1 of Decree No. 16878 issued on 7/10/1963 related to the establishment of the Electricité du Liban (EDL).

  • Proposal for a law aimed at authorizing the government to establish an anonymous company to invest in the port of Beirut.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Combating illegal speculation and monopoly offences and increasing the penalty.

  • Granting social assistance for a one year period to the public sector employees and to contractors, and adjusting the value of the temporary daily transportation compensation.

  • Concerning health care professionals who are victims of the Corona epidemic.

  • Public Finance Programming and Governance.

  • Transparency and open data.

  • Establishing and organizing the Ministry of Planning, defining its powers, and abolishing its councils, bodies and funds.

  • Urgent and expedited measure Amending the Banking Secrecy Law.

  • Reconsideration of some articles of the Constitution.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Granting financial assistance to the families of the martyrs of Beirut port blast on August 4, 2020.

  • Opening an additional credit from the general budget reserve for the year 2020, amounting to five hundred billion LBP, to be allocated to places of worship, hospitals, and educational institutions, including schools.

  • Optional civil marriage in Lebanon.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Opening an additional credit of 300 billion LBP in the 2020 budget to support private schools in difficulty.

  • Bring back fresh money and the financial portfolios transferred abroad after 17/10/2019.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Bring back fresh money and financial portfolios transferred abroad after 17/10/2019.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Establishing a special fund to face the Corona epidemic’s repercussions on those who lost their jobs in the private sector.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Temporarily suspending the application of the provisions of Article 32 of the 2020 Budget Law.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Fixing the reference rate for Lebanese banks (BRR).

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Cancellation of the last paragraph of Article 80 of Law 144 dated July 31, 2019 (the general budget and supplementary budgets for 2019).

  • A proposal for the “Lebanese Sovereign Fund” law.

  • Licensing the cultivation of the cannabis plant in order to use it in the manufacture of raw materials for medical and pharmaceutical use, as well as for medical and pharmaceutical preparations and drugs.

  • Creation of a “Public Institution” to invest in the port of Beirut”.

  • Adding a Paragraph to Article 5 of Law No. 285/2014 General Provisions for Private Higher Education.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Amending Article 16 of the Money Laundering Law No. 318 dated 4/20/2001.

  • Amending the Banking Secrecy Law, dated 9/3/1956.

  • Amending Law No. 692 regulating the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Exempting owners of plots on which a Palestinian refugee camp is based and those located within the camp’s security strip from taxes, fees, and fines, and from the obligation to settle infractions.

  • Amending Article 419 of the Penal Code concerning judicial immunities and amending Article 389 concerning defamation.

  • Amending the pre-university general education curricula and introducing robotic programming and artificial intelligence.

  • Amending Law No. 293/2014 (Protection of Women and Other Family Members from Domestic Violence).

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Oppening an additional credit in the general budget for the year 2018 amounting to 123,313,500,000 LBP – Presidency of the Council of Ministers and Council for Development and Reconstruction’ Chapter.

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Extension of the provisions of Law 288 dated 4/30/2014 (regulating the electricity sector).

  • Amending Articles in the Municipalities Law (Decree Law No. 118 of 6-30-1997).

  • Urgent and expedited measure, Allow the private sector to build and establish factories to treat solid waste in order to convert it into electrical energy and distribute it by EDL.

  • Freed prisoners from Syria to benefit from provisions of Law No. 364 dated August 16, 2001.

  • Granting employees appointed by Decree No. 12555 dated June 8, 2004 a rank for every two years they spend in permanent staffing.

  • Establishing a special court for financial crimes.

  • Extending the deadlines of judicial reviews stipulated in Article 69 of the bill in force by the Decree No. 10434 dated June 14, 1975, and its amendments (Regulating State Consultative Council – Shura Council).

  • Adding an Article to the Law in force by the Decree No. 1306 dated June 18, 1971, and its amendments (Regulating the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates).

  • Amending Article 10 of Law issued by the Decree Law No. 118 dated June 30, 1977 (Municipalities Law).

  • Benefiting discharged personnel of Civil Defense from Provisions of Law No. 289/2014 dated April 30, 2014.

  • Settlement of the status of Customs’ officers, sergeants, and guards.

  • Reinstatement of Article 133 of Municipal Fees Law No. 60/88.

  • Granting permanent status to the contractors within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.

  • Exempting all legally recognized religious communities from a number of taxes and fees.

  • Calculation of retirement pension and compensation for soldiers whose service has ended during 1994.

  • Amending Article 14 of Law No. 717/98 (Salary Scale).

  • Adding a text to Clause 2 of Article 55 of Value-Added Tax Law.

  • Amending Law No. 717/98 to abolish provisions of Article 14 of said Law, to be mentioned in the general budget, the required credits pertaining to implement due retroactive effect as of January 1st, 1996 for the beneficiaries of the provisions.

  • Establishing the National Foundation for Youth Card Management.

  • Amending Article 40 of amended Law dated March 11, 1964 (changing of residence).

  • Settling the situation of retired colonels within the General Security.

  • Allocating lump-sum compensation to volunteers within the General Directorate of Civil Defense.

  • Approving Great Famine Remembrance Day.

  • Determining the prison year.

  • Inland water control and water rescue.

  • Resolving illegal works of maritime public properties.

  • Setting an official holiday in remembrance of Martyred Presidents.

  • Amending the Legislative Election Law No. 25 date October 8, 2008.

  • Benefiting the retirees of the secondary public education, technical and vocational education of categories 2 and 3 from a sum of money.

  • Amending Article 21 of the Inheritance Law for non-Muslims dated June 23, 1959.

  • Providing equity for education hourly contractors in primary public education, in kindergarten and middle school, to incorporate them in primary education staffing.

  • Lebanese Youth’s Housing.

  • Establishing a mandatory Order for Psychiatrists in Lebanon.

  • Exempting student scholarships (university and vocational) from income tax, transfer fees, and value-added tax.

  • Amending Article 22 of Labor Code dated September 23, 1946 (strictly prohibiting recruiting juveniles before they reach the age of 15).

  • Amending Articles 3 and 5 of the Law of Associations issued on August 3, 1909.

  • Amending Provisions of Article 36 of Medical Deontology Law No. 288.

  • Amending provisions of Article 38 of the Law for the establishment of two Orders of Physicians in Lebanon, No. 313.

  • Amending provisions of the Social Security Law and establishing the retirement and Social Protection System.

  • Settling the situation of a number of General Security Officers whose situation had not been addressed as per Law No. 170 dated September 4, 1922, by amending a number of said law’s provisions.

  • Benefiting contractors with the State Employees Cooperative from the Provisions of Law No. 256 dated April 22, 2014.

  • Amending Law No. 272 pursuant to establishing a Council of Notaries Public in Lebanon.

  • Adding a word to Article 240 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

  • Granting preferential benefits to employees within the Ministry of Justice, assigned to ensure notary tasks.

  • Granting permanent status to daily Wage Earners and Contractors within the Ministry of Telecommunications.

  • Making the felony of motorcycle theft an aggravated offence.

  • Establishing the Lebanese Commission of the Medical Specialties (Lebanese Board).

  • Amending the text of Article 9 of the Social Security Law.

  • Resettling the purge of rights (pension) for a number of Colonels.

  • Amending Table No. 1 annexed to the Decree Law No. 116 dated June 12, 1959 (Administrative Regulation) aiming at establishing a village within the Chouf District under the name of “Jeayel”, and administratively separating it from the village of “Kfarnis”.

  • Settling the situation of inspectors within the General Directorate of the General Security.

  • Granting administrative officers grades upon promotion to a higher level.

  • Amending Articles 505 and 519 and abolishing Article 518 of the Penal Code.

  • Amending paragraph “C” of Article 14 of the Social Security Law.

  • Adding 14 seats for women within the Parliament.

  • Adding a new Article to the Election Law.

  • Amending Articles 625, 626, 627, and 628 of the Commerce and Bankruptcy Law.

  • Amending the provisions of Articles 3, 6, and 7 of the Decree No. 3950 dated April 27, 1960 of the Employees and Wage Earners Law.

  • Amending the provisions of the following : Articles 503, 504, 505, 506, 513, 515, 522, 562, 627, and 753 of the Penal Code.

  • Amending the provisions of the following : clause 2 of Article 16, Article 26 ; and clause 2 of Articles 46 and 47 of the Social Security Law.

  • Amending the provisions of Articles 487, 488, and 489 of the Lebanese Penal Code (punishing adulterers – husband or wife).

  • Amending Law No. 646 dated December 11, 2004 (Construction Law) and its implementing Decree No. 15874 dated December 12, 2005.

  • Amending Law No. 17 the Internal Security Forces Regulation Law.

  • Establishing an Exclusive Economic Zone in the Batroun District.

  • Amending Article 17 of the Decree Law No. 96 dated September 9, 1983 (regulating civic organization laws).

  • Amending Law No. 648 dated June 2nd, 1997 (promoting ISF Reservists).

  • Abolishing Law No. 394 dated June 5, 2002, relating to authorizing the Government to join the Patent Cooperation Treaty done at Washington.

  • Establishing a distinguished Order for the Lebanese Biologists.

  • Allowing import and use of 590 diesel-operated cars.

  • Allowing the Government to ratify the Stockholm Act of 1967 as amended in 1979 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

  • Allowing the Government to join the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons.

  • Amending Article 7 of Tax Income Law, Decree Law No. 144 dated June 12, 1959.

  • Establishing a green card to be granted to a woman’s foreign husband and children.

  • Allowing the Government to join the Johannesburg Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters.

  • Regulating the profession of real estate appraisers in Lebanon.

  • Regulating the veterinary pharmacy.

  • Establishing a pension fund for the Order of Veterinarians.

  • Deontology for Veterinarians in Lebanon.

  • Amending the establishment of the Lebanese Order of Physicians.

  • Adding 12 extra seats within the Parliament to be elected by the Lebanese diaspora.

  • Conditions and retrieval of Lebanese nationality for people of Lebanese origins.

  • Creating a new Governorate in Mount Lebanon, in Keserwan and Byblos Districts.

  • Regulating the marriages of minors.

  • Proposal for a law for missing and forcibly disappeared persons.

  • Proposal for the Financial Care Institutions Law.

  • Punishing torture and other forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

  • Settling the situation of retired officers within the General Security.

  • Confirming the appointment of contractors within the Ministry of Culture.

  • Amending Article 844 of the Code of Obligations and Contracts, and the Decree Law No. 35 dated August 5, 1967, including the creation of a one-person company.

  • Amending a number of Chapter 3 Provisions of the Commercial Code relating to joint stock companies.

  • Adding a new paragraph to Article 3 of Law No. 173 dated August 29, 2011 concerning the transfer of judges’ salary scales.

  • Amending paragraph 1 of Article 68 of Staff Rules.

  • Establishing the National Commission for Human Rights, which includes the Committee for the Prevention of Torture.

  • Amending the Penal Code (remission of prison sentence).

  • Media Law.

  • Amending paragraph 8 of Article 94 of the Decree Law No. 102/83 allowing the spouse of a volunteer (regardless if he is a man or a woman) in the Lebanese Armed Forces in the event of a second marriage after the death of the first spouse, to benefit from the pension.

  • Ensuring protection for corruption whistleblowers.

  • Foreign trade and vacations.

  • Banning political advertisement in public areas.

  • Amending the Parliamentary Elections Law.

  • Mandatory permanent education for pharmacists.

  • Proposing to amend the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure regarding the parliamentary control.

  • Establishing the e-Government.

  • Amending provisions of Law No. 522 dated June 6, 1996 (regulating the practice of topography and establishing the Order of Topographers).

  • Amending articles of Law No. 384/94 placing public registration plates into circulation.

  • Establishing the National Sports Academy.

  • Promoting by three ranks all ISF-Unit commanders and heads of units.

  • Amending Law No. 194 dated November 18, 2011 (addressing the situation of Lebanese employees who took refuge in Israel).

  • Designating and confirming the appointment of contractors within the Ministry of Information.

  • Establishing a mandatory union for licensed freight workers in Lebanon.

  • Abolishing death penalty and replacing it with hard labor or life imprisonment.

  • Exempting Representatives of Chinese Companies partaking in the Chinese Permanent Forum of entry visas and accommodation fees.

  • Non-Lebanese ownership of real estate rights in Lebanon.

  • Separating parliamentary seats from ministerial portfolios.

  • Amending provisions of the Social Security Law and establishing the Pension and Social Protection System.

  • Amending Article 20 of the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure (assigning a Committee for Security Affairs).