In an unprecedented gathering of civil society representatives from all over the country, Iraq EITI refreshed part of its multi-stakeholder group in December 2014.
In February 2014, Iraq EITI submitted a request for adapted implementation, being unable to guarantee the comprehensive disclosure of material payments collected by the KRG. The Board approved the request for the 2012 and 2013 EITI Reports.
Following protracted negotiations between the IEITI and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), the Iraq EITI produced an update of its 2010 report in May 2013, including a chapter on Kurdistan’s oil and gas production and revenues from exports, assessed by the Supreme Audit Board.
On 9 August 2012 the Iraq EITI Council agreed a final Validation report. The EITI Board declared Iraq compliant on 12 December 2012.
The first EITI Report covering 2009 was published in December 2011. The 2009 EITI Report covered export sales of all officially exported oil from Iraq, including from Kurdistan, which go through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline with ports at Basra and Ceyhan (in Turkey). Any oil in that pipeline is the property of SOMO, the Iraqi state-owned oil company.
Iraq was accepted as an EITI Candidate country by the Board on 10 February 2010.
In December 2018, Iraq EITI submitted a new request for adapted implementation, being unable to guarantee the comprehensive disclosure of material payments collected by the KRG. The Board approved the request in April 2019 for the 2016-2018 EITI Reports.
This is Iraq's EITI work plan for May 2019 - December 2020, published in May 2019. The original document is in Arabic, the English translation is unofficial.
This is Iraq's 2017 EITI Report published in December 2019.
This is a compendium of publicly-accessible financial statements for the account to which Iraq's oil and gas export revenues are transferred.
The financial statements of the Central Bank of Iraq's Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) and its successor accounts, such as the Oil Proceeds Account (DFI-2), at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are audited annually to international standards. Other supporting documentation,
This is a compendium of all publicly-accessible KRG reports on oil production, consumption, exports, and revenues covering 2015, 2017 and 2018.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) releases quarterly or bi-annual reports conducted by Deloitte on the region’s oil production, consumption, exports, and revenues. The KRG has committed to continuing the practice of contracting international audit firms (Deloitte and EY) to undertake these reviews. Deloitte was appointed by the KRG's Regional Council for Oil and Gas Affairs to review oil production, export,
This is Iraq's 2018 EITI annual progress report (in Arabic), published in February 2019 in accordance with Requirement 7.4.
This report, together with its addendum, summarizes the results of Iraq's EITI reconciliation of payments and revenues for 2016 and provides information pertaining to the mining, oil and gas sectors in Iraq.
It does not include reconciliation of data related to the extractive industries in Kurdistan Region. This data was requested from the Kurdistan Regional Government but was not provided, although the 2016 EITI Report includes some information about the extractive industry in KRG based on publicly-available information.
This is the Iraq EITI 2018-2019 work plan, in Arabic (in accordance with Requirement 1.5).
This report summarizes the results of the Iraq EITI reconciliation processes and provides information pertaining to the Oil and Gas Sector and the Extractive Industries in Iraq.
It does not include reconciliation of data related to the extractive industries (including oil & gas) in Kurdistan Region. This data was requested from the Kurdistan Regional Government but it was not provided, however, IEITI Stakeholder Council has requested the inclusion of information about the extractive industry in KRG based on publicly available information.
This is the Iraq EITI 2017-2018 work plan (in accordance with Requirement 1.5).
Iraq's Validation commenced on 1 January 2017. On 26 October 2017, the EITI Board found that Iraq has made inadequate progress in implementing the 2016 EITI Standard.
The following documentation laid the basis for the Board's decision, attached below:
Initial data collection and stakeholder consultation [English Arabic]Draft Validation report [
Attached below is Iraq's roadmap on how it intends to disclose the beneficial owners of the companies active in the extractives sector (requirement 2.5
More information on beneficial ownership can be found at eiti.org/beneficial-ownership.
This report summarizes the results of these reconciliation processes, in addition to, information pertaining to the Oil and Gas Sector and the Extractive Industries in Iraq.
It does not include reconciliation of data related to the extractive industries (including oil & gas) in Kurdistan Region. This data was requested from the Kurdistan Regional Government but it was not provided, however, IEITI Stakeholder Council has requested the inclusion of information about the extractive industry in KRG based on publicly available information.
This EITI Report covers Iraq's extractive sector in 2013. It was published in December 2015.
This is the Iraq EITI 2014 Annual Progress Report (in accordance with Requirements 7.4 and 8.4).
This is the Iraq EITI 2013-2015 work plan (in accordance with Requirement 1.5).
