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Комитет по развитию предпринимательства и промышленности

29.09.2016

The powers of the president to make the final decision on the fate of each supported by deputies law was prescribed in the Pridnestrovian Constitution. The Head of State within 14 days must either put his signature to the adopted document, or its reasoned veto or return to the Supreme Council for reconsideration. A hundred unsigned laws had clothed under Presidential stale for more than four years. The parliamentarians in this regard had with Presidential administration inconclusive correspondence, then began address the Constitutional Court. In this instance each time the marked presidential powers and the need for their timely execution was confirmed. The practice of going to court paid off: with enormous the laws were signed. But the head of the republic does not change, and paying off old debts, stores the new. More recently, the Supreme Council was forced to once again appeal to the Constitutional Court on the fact of not signing the president of the next block laws. This was made in July of this year, legislation on amendments and supplements to the law on the status of the deputy of the Rules of the Supreme Council of the legislative acts, as well as the Criminal Code and the Administrative Code.

With regard to the signed laws: the principle of "better late than never" does not work here. Many acts during the waiting fateful stroke of a pen the President are  of no longer current. Taking into account that the legal framework in accordance with the requirements of the times and circumstances is constantly updated, these documents can no longer harmoniously integrate into the legal space: they fell out of the track it does not make sense and select it. Parliamentarians are forced to return to their examination - now to cancel it. Vice-Speaker Alexander Shcherba has prepared a package of a dozen such legislations. Half of them are the responsibility of the Committee on the development of business and industry. We are talking about tax adjustments, changes in the legislation regulating the sphere of trade, as well as the laws that protect consumers' rights. Adopted at the time by deputies the standards needed to support entrepreneurs, to reduce bureaucratic barriers, promote employment, improve the economic situation in the republic. But all this remains only the text on paper, to breathe life into that did not allow the absence of the signature of the guarantor of the Constitution.

Members of the Committee on Development of Entrepreneurship and Industry unanimously voted to reject adopted, with disastrous delay signed, and, unfortunately, lost their relevance laws. There are those initiatives that appeared to revive later.