Discussion runs of draft law

The parliamentary Standing committee on justice held Wednesday a fourth discussion of a bill on the rule of implementing laws and regulations for formulating and submitting draft laws.

This bill has been worked out and submitted by the cabinet to parliament with a support of the "Backing legislative actions with civil participation" project, which is being co-implemented by parliament and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Head of the Standing committee D.Ganbat opened the discussion. He said that a plenary meeting of the parliamentary session on January 30 backed a matter on discussing this bill, submitted by the cabinet on January 23, and that a working group has been set up to prepare the draft for the first discussion.

After this, a speech was given by B.Boldbaatar, the secretary-general of the Parliamentary Office and director of the above project. Main objectives of the project are to improve legislative actions by running policy research at parliament and consulting participants, to strengthen the ties between citizens and elected representatives, to issue a report on the UN Anti-Corruption Convention and to support a process of implementation and realization of policies and laws regarding ethics and conflicts of interests, he said.

Minister of Justice D.Dorligjav gave a report on the bill’s concept and preamble. Moreover, delegates from the Union of Mongolian Lawyers and NGOs and businessmen expressed their positions on the draft law.