Speaking at the meeting of the Milli Majlis Committee for Family, Women’s and Children’s Affairs on 9 February, Committee Chair Hijran Huseynova declared the following two items on the agenda: the first-reading draft amendments to the Family Code and the first-reading draft amendments to the Civil Procedural Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.

Informing the meeting participants of the first item, Mrs Huseynova told them that the provisions of the Family Code concerned with adoption of children had been adjusted in line with the presidential decree (signed in 2018) ‘On the Measures to Improve the Adoption Governance’. An electronic management system had also been created to render the relevant services. Meanwhile, the new amendments are going to make a weighty contribution to the relevant legislation, with their main goals being protection of children’s rights and interest and ensuring their upbringing in sound family environments. Besides, the amendments would facilitate the adoption procedures for future adopted children’s equally future adoptive parents who are also their relatives as it is; some associated procedures are to be made redundant in the first place.

Deputy Chair of the Committee Jala Aliyeva and the Committee members Sadagat Valiyeva, Konul Nurullayeva, Nigyar Arpadarai, Ramin Mammadov and Parvin Karimzade shared their considerations of the Bill. They agreed that the amendments were aligned with the times and as such, opportune. Several proposals were mentioned as well.

Then, it was recommended that the Bill should be tabled for deliberations in the first reading at a plenary session of the Milli Majlis.

After that, Mrs Huseynova moved on to the second agenda item and explained that the proposed amendments to the Civil Procedural Code were harmonising in nature and had been devised to streamline the legislation.

Those amendments, too, were recommended for the first reading at a plenary session of the Milli Majlis, with which the meeting of the parliamentary Committee for Family, Women’s and Children’s Affairs came to a conclusion.

The Committee members Rashad Mahmudov, Tamam Jafarova, Sevil Mikayilova and Rauf Aliyev had taken part in the meeting as well.

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis