In a request released today, the PSD is asking the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees to ask the President of the Assembly of the Republic to “give the draft law No. º 96/XV/1.ª (GOV) to be redistributed ) indicates that this can also be distributed in connection with the 1st Commission, either in the generality phase or in the specialty phase”.
The PSD also proposes to hear the orders of lawyers, attorneys, bailiffs and notaries in that committee, “taking into account the importance of this case for these judicial professionals”.
For the PSD, these face-to-face hearings are necessary and mandatory in this legislative process and the Constitutional Affairs Committee is “the only one materially competent to consider these changes to the specific legislation for these professionals”.
This degree, which is pending before the Labor Commission, revises the bylaws of a number of professional bodies and professional associations, including on conditions of entry into the profession, fees for internships and regulations, and has been the target of criticism from some Orders.
PSD Vice-President Clara Marques Mendes had already taken this issue to the meeting of the Conference of Parliamentary Leaders, the summary of which was released today, claiming that there are matters in the diploma that are beyond the competence of the Labor Commission, as ” the other competent committees” should be involved in the legislative process.
According to the deputy, quoted in the summary, “issues of material incompetence” are raised, for example, “at the Medical Association, for which the Health Committee has jurisdiction, or at the Lawyers Association, under the purview of the 1st Committee [de Assuntos Constitucionais, Direitos, Liberdades e Garantias].
Deputy Clara Marques Mendes found the government’s option to bring together the amendments to the statutes of all professional bodies into a single bill “formally incorrect”, indicating that on previous occasions “a bill had been introduced for each professional body”.
At the same meeting, MP Pedro Delgado Alves of the PS stated that “the government was not obliged to introduce multiple bills and that, having introduced a single bill, it could only go to a committee, without prejudice to links and requests for opinion made by other committees, depending on the matters, may be deemed necessary”.
The socialist also emphasized the existence of a working group of professional organizations set up under the Commission for Labour, Social Security and Inclusion (10th), noting that it has a “composition that has been expanded to include delegates from various committees” .
In turn, the President of the Assembly of the Republic pointed out that this is not the first time that a bill has covered cross-cutting issues for several committees and pointed out that the solution was to “ensure connections and a working group in a pilot committee, with delegates from various committees”.
Augusto Santos Silva recalled that the diploma will be discussed in plenary on July 19, so the legislative process in the specialty will take place in the next legislative session, and said that he will return to the topic at the next meeting of the leadership conference, on July 5.
Source: DN
