The autumn parliamentary session begins on September 1, as an order signed earlier by Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu provides. The date of the plenary sitting will be decided by the legislature’s Standing Bureau.

Contacted by IPN for details, the head of the Parliament’s Public Relations and Communications Division Svetlana Rudenco said the Standing Bureau hasn’t yet come together for a meeting and it is not known when it will be convened. The materials for the plenary sittings are being prepared and the standing commissions resume work.

“The issues that are to be included in the agenda are transmitted to the Standing Bureau at least two days before the meeting in which the Standing Bureau agrees the agenda of the Parliament’s sitting,” stated Svetlana Rudenco.

Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu is paying an official visit to Bucharest at the invitation of the President of the Chamber of Deputies Ludovic Orban. He will take part in the opening of the second session of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of Romania and will have meetings with the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis and the President of Romania’s Senate Anca Dragu, which will center on the existing dialogue and on the strengthening of the partnership between the two countries by new actions and joint projects.

The delegation of Moldova’s Parliament also includes Doina Gherman, who heads the commission on foreign policy and European integration, Vladimir Bolea, who leads the commission on agriculture and food industry, Dumitru Alaiba, who manages the commission on economy, budget and finance, Lilian Carp, chairman of the commission on national security, defense and public order, Larisa Voloh, who heads the commission on public administration, and others.

Parliament has two ordinary sessions a year. The autumn session begins in September and ends in December, while the spring session starts in February and is closed in July.