News of the Committees

New provisions in the Electoral Code will clarify the procedure for the formation and powers of election commissions, adjust the voting time in elections and establish the "extraordinary elections" concept.

The draft Resolutions developed by the Parliamentary Committee on Legislation, Protection of Citizens' Rights and Freedoms on behalf of the PMR President will be included in the agenda of one of the upcoming plenary sessions.

The Committee on Legislation, Protection of Citizens' Rights and Freedoms has prepared a draft resolution of the Supreme Council on information from the PMR Arbitration Court on the results of its activities for the past year.

The initiative included in the agenda of the meeting of the Legislation Committee concerned the powers of the Prosecutor to intervene in a case being heard by the Arbitration Court.

Deputies considered legislations concerning appeals against decisions and imposition of administrative penalties at a meeting of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of Citizens' Rights and Freedoms.

The Committee on Legislation, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens supported in the course of the meeting the draft Resolution of the Supreme Council "On amnesty in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the thirty-fifth anniversary of the formation of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic".

The profile committee prepared for adoption in the second reading the draft laws of the PMR Prosecutor concerning the empowerment of investigators of the Prosecutor's Office to conduct preliminary investigations.

The report of the PMR Prosecutor Anatoly Guretsky on the state of law and order in the republic and the work done to strengthen them over the past year was included in the agenda of the meeting of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of Citizens' Rights and Freedoms.

The law-in-draft concerning the readjournment of serving a sentence was considered at a meeting of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens.

Deputies of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens considered at a meeting the draft of the new Criminal Procedure Code of the PMR. A working group under the relevant parliamentary committee had been developing the law for 2 years.