February-March plans

Members of the parliamentary presidium traditionally on Tuesday met to consider the agenda of the upcoming plenary sessions in February and March.

The sixth convocation of the Supreme Council has been working for almost a year on improving the legal framework regulating the activities of the prosecution authorities. Under the previous leadership of the republic, the supervisory authority was deprived of a significant part of its powers. This decision was based on the decision of the Constitutional Court of 2003, which stated that the prosecutor's office did not have a place in the system of public authorities. A large group of deputies acted as a collective author of amending the Constitution. The need for this was due to a large number of appeals to the Supreme Council regarding the return to the body overseeing the legality of the previous functions that had been inherent in it for a long time, beginning with the Soviet period.

The law-in-draft on the correction of the Code of Criminal Procedure was passed in the first reading. Members of the working group are currently working on its finalization. Vice Speaker Galina Antyufeeva in an interview with parliamentary journalists expressed her hope that this work will be carried out in an operational working mode and by April will be fully completed.

The new for Pridnestrovie law-in-draft of the President "On the stimulation of entrepreneurial activity in some territories of the PMR" deserves special attention from the head of the Parliamentary Committee for the Development of Entrepreneurship and Industry Viktor Guzun.

The developing situation was described by the head of the responsible committee Victor Guzun.

The legislative initiative of the President instructs the government to establish criteria for identifying areas with weak entrepreneurial activity. In these settlements, reduced rates for payment of an individual entrepreneurial patent will be applied (a 70 percent discount is planned). The same size will apply to legal entities on income tax of organizations that will start business in these settlements. In addition, a reduction factor of 0.5 rent for premises in municipal or state ownership will be used.

Among the legislations that the deputy corps will have to consider in February and March, proposals are also for toughening the administrative penalty for the refusal of civil servants to receive citizens' appeals; on changes in the legal norms regulating the issue of retroactive effect of the legislative act, as well as the law-in-draft "On Private Subsistence Economy" initiated by the Government, which has already caused ambiguous attitude at the stage of preliminary consideration.

The next plenary sessions of the Supreme Council are scheduled for February 28 and March 14.