CAPC recommends MPs to make comprehensible laws

The Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption (CAPC) urges the MPs to include articles from other laws to which reference is made when drafting bills. The recommendation was made after experts of the CAPC examined the corruptibility of the bill on entrepreneurs, enterprises and state taxes. The bill contains 63 references to other laws, Info-Prim Neo reports. “It was very hard to read this bill. We want the bills to say clearly to what they refer. Even a jurist understands with difficulty, not speaking about an ordinary person,” CAPC program coordinator Stela Pavlov told a news conference. Stela Pavlov said the informative note to the bill contains only a summary of the main fiscal and customs amendments proposed. “This bill was drafted with many deviations from the legislation. There is no economic-financial assessment of the bill and the costs needed to implement it. The bill does not contain information about the impact that it will have on society if it is adopted,” said Stela Pavlov. CAPC head Galina Bostan said some of the proposed amendments are aimed at increasing taxes and introducing taxes on the donations for religious organizations. Under the informative note to the bill, the draft law contains proposals to amend a series of legislative documents that result from the fiscal, customs and budgetary policy for 2012, based on the provisions of the Government’s program for 2011-2014. The CAPC recommends determining the costs that will be incurred for implementing the legislative amendments before putting the bill to the vote. The social impact must be clearly explained, while the provisions must be comprehensible. The CAPC examined the bill within the Corruptibility Expert Review of Normative and Legislative Documents – Fifth Stage Project that is financially supported by the Civil Rights Defenders of Sweden and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.