The Shoura Council, approved in its 52nd ordinary session held under the chairmanship of its Chairman Sheikh Dr. Salih bin Abdullah bin Homaid amendments tabled by the Transportation, Communications and Information Technology Committee to Article 12 of the Saudi Arabian Airlines system. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency following the meeting, the Shoura Council's Secretary General Dr. Homoud Albadr said the new amendment exempts SAUDIA from paying the fees, stamps and income tax levied on the economic activity it practices within the announced purposes of the system, according to Article II. Albadr said the Council then discussed part of the government personnel punishment system.
