Draftlaw amendments and resolution submitted to parliament

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A parliamentarian O.Baasankhuu Thursday submitted to parliament draft amendments to the laws on tobacco control and on VAT, and a draft resolution of parliament on approving a list of items that will be prohibited from passing the state border. Our parliament passed the law on tobacco control and it went into force March of last year. This law banns smoking in many areas, partly limits a tobacco trade, but does not say anything about the smoking places allowed. For this reason this draft has a clause about the special spots for smoking, O.Baasankhuu said, adding that such places must be equipped with air conditioning facilities. In conjunction with submitting this draft, the MP also amended the law on VAT in order to increase the tax for tobacco every two years. By the draft resolution Mr Baasankhuu wants to stop hunting and catching a saker falcon for a financial purpose and to ban its export to foreign countries.