Parliament resumes on 19 October keeping and “agenda open to receiving further legislative proposals at this time”

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Parliament resumes on 19 October keeping and “agenda open to receiving further legislative proposals at this time”

1:42 CAT | 29 Sep 2016

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The Standing Committee of the National Assembly yesterday convened the Fourth Ordinary Session of for 19 October to 20 December.

According to committee spokesman and first deputy speaker António José Amelia, the Standing Committee, meeting in Maputo, also approved the list of matters to be examined during the little more than two months of the plenary session.

Among these, the annual report of the president on the general state of the nation; the Ombudsman’s report on the application of justice in the country and separate sessions, information and questions to the government are the highlights.

This plenary session will also analyze several bills, particularly the law regarding the 2017 state budget, accompanying the resolution on the Economic and Social Plan (PES) for the same period; the revision of the Organic Law of the Public Ministry; the law pertaining to the status of officers of justice and official assistants of judicial prosecutors; the law establishing the Order of Architects and their status; and the Review Law of the Overvaluation Tax of Wood.

Legislative proposals submitted to parliament include Audio Visual and Film; Organic Law of the Referendum; the Legal Regime of Corporations (SA); review of the Law of Protection, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity; the specific amendment of the bill of Definition and Transfer of District Headquarters Province; areas to be transferred between districts; and the creation of new districts by provinces.

The 33 points of the list of issues further include the appreciation of the report of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for Investigation of Public Debt; the information of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Legality to the Fourth Session of Parliament on the Revision of the Code of Execution of Penalties and Private and non-custodial measures; and information of the same committee on the Criminal Code Review and the project of parliament’s Regiment review.

Matters to be considered by the country’s highest legislative body also include the information of the Parliamentary Office for the Prevention and Combating of HIV/Aids; the draft resolution pertaining to the Assembly of the Programme of Activities for 2017 and its budget; Commission information Petitions, Complaints and Claims; Motion of disapproval of Information Annual Attorney General’s Office to the Third Session of the RA; and the draft resolution pertaining to the Rectification of the United Nations Framework Convention for Tobacco Control and the Management Account of Parliament.

On 19 October this year, the country marks the 30th anniversary of the death of the first president of independent Mozambique, Samora Machel, which, the first deputy speaker said, had been taken into account. The rules of parliament dictate that the second ordinary session of the calendar year should start on the first Wednesday of the second half of October and should continue until the 20th of December.

Asked whether the coming session would include any review of the constitution resulting from the dialogue between the government and Renamo, Amelia replied: “Our agenda is open to receiving further legislative proposals at this time.

Source: Noticias