almamlaka - The Parliamentary Economic and Investment Committee approved during Monday's meeting, headed by Representative Khaled Abu Hassan, a number of articles of the draft law amending the Companies Law for the year 2021, and postponing approval of the rest of the articles for further study and research.

Abu Hassan, in the presence of the Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply, Maha Ali and Al-Adl Ahmed Al-Ziyadat, the General Controller of Companies Wael Al-Armouti, the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Maher Al-Sheikh, the Director General of the Amman Chamber of Industry, Nael Al-Husami, and the Deputy Chairman of the Jordan Chamber of Commerce, Mahmoud Al-Jalis, said, "We will not hesitate to approve any legislation that raises the classification Jordan provides the appropriate climate to attract investments by simplifying procedures to become more flexible. "

And that "the committee approved the articles after an extensive discussion with the attendees after some appropriate amendments were made to them, while articles it saw were covered by other laws and legislation."

For their part, the deputies Jaafar al-Rabab'a, Muhammad al-Maharmeh, Khair Abu Sa'aylik, Omar al-Ayasrah, Amal al-Shaqran, Nasar al-Hisa, Shadi Freij, Muhammad Abu Sa'aylik, Abeer al-Jabour, Nidal al-Hiyari and Abd al-Rahman al-Awaisheh inquired about a set of concepts contained in the amendments related to allowing companies to hold meetings of public bodies, boards of directors and managers' bodies by means. e.

They touched on the text according to which a special account will be created with the department to cover the expenses of the compulsory liquidation of the company in the absence of funds for further research and study, and the need to facilitate procedures without incurring the state treasury any new expenditures, and to discuss the article that requires registered companies to keep a record that includes information about the real beneficiary. For the purposes intended in the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Law and its disclosure and any change in its data within 5 working days of the change occurring or documenting the change with the department.

In turn, the attendees answered all the MPs' inquiries about the amendment draft, and the need to keep abreast of the current developments and developments imposed by the Corona pandemic.

They indicated that permitting meetings of public bodies, media councils and directorates' bodies to be held by electronic means is necessary in light of the digitization of the economy to save effort and time.

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