The Parliament’s Standing Bureau will hold a meeting on February 4 to agree the date when the legislature’s first sitting of the spring-summer session will take place. The permanent commissions will convene also on Wednesday. The meetings of these commissions in the immediate period will be held in the renovated Parliament Building, IPN reports.
According to the legislative body’s press service, Speaker Andrian Candu called a working meeting with the heads of the permanent commissions and the two Deputy Speakers. Each Deputy Speaker will be responsible for the activity of a number of commissions.
The Head of Parliament urged the commission heads to contribute to increasing the quality of the parliamentary work and asked them to examine the Constitutional Court’s notices addressed to the legislature, according to their area of competence, and to analyze the bills under examination so as to update the list of legislative documents that are to be debated in Parliament. In this respect, Andrian Candu noted that a series of European parliamentary practices will be used in a move to improve the process of forwarding bills in Parliament.
The agendas of the permanent commissions include 126 bills that are to be examined and 4 laws that are to be reexamined. Most of the bills are to be analyzed by the commission on economy, budget and finance.