BILL “ON MAKING AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO NA REGULATIONS” TO BE
DISCUSSED AT NA SOON
YEREVAN, MARCH 31, NOYAN TAPAN. The bill “On Making Amendments
and Additions to NA Regulations” will be discussed at the April 7
sitting of RA NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Issues, for
the purpose of giving a conclusion for including it in the agendas of
the spring session and 4-day session to start from April 10. Noyan
Tapan correspondent was informed about it by Committee Chairman
Rafik Petrosian. The bill consisting of over 8 dozens of articles
has been in official circulation at NA since February 27. Though
as of March 31, the government’s conclusion about the bill had not
been officially received at the NA yet, according to R.Petrosian,
they were informed from the government that the conclusion has been
already sent to the NA. According to preliminary information, the
government has no essential objections regarding the bill content. The
amendments and additions proposed to the NA Regulations are conditioned
by the necessity to bring in correspondence with the constitutional
amendments adopted at the 2005 November 27 referendum, as well as by
solution of the problems that arose in the course of application of the
current Regulations. According to this, in particular, the draft law
stipulates the provisions of the reformed Constitution regarding the
ban on the business activity of MPs and deputy immunity, new powers
of NA groups and factions to apply to the government with questions,
the order of duscussion and making of decisions, as well as the
provisions regarding 12 standing committees of the parliament and
spheres of their activity. The latter will extend to the parliament
of next convocation and before it the current 6 standing committees
of the parliament will continue to function. The bill also clarifies
the order of MPs’ application to the Constitutional Court, where it
is stipulated that after sending a document with signatures to the CC
it is not subject to changing any longer. To recap, there have been
precedents before when after the application’s entering the CC some
MPs denied their signatures cancelling the discussion of the issue.