First Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis and Chairman of the parliamentary Law Policy and State-Building Committee Ali Huseynli announced four items put on the agenda as he was opening the committee meeting held on 23 June.

Item one was about the set of first-reading amendments to the laws of the Azerbaijan Republic ‘On the Civil Service’, ‘On Serving in the Prosecution Authorities’, ‘On the Diplomatic Service’, ‘On Serving in the Justice Authorities’ and ‘On Serving in the Emergency Situations Authorities’ as well as to the Customs Authorities Service Charter enacted by the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic No 768-IQ dated 7 December 1999, the State Tax Authorities Service Charter enacted by the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic No 141-IIQ dated 12 June 2001, the Azerbaijan Republic Internal Affairs Authorities Service Charter enacted by the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic No 168-IIQ dated 29 June 2001 and the Migration Authorities Service Charter enacted by the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic No 930-IIIQ dated 4 December 2009.

The amendments envisage that no trial period will be assigned to a civil servant recruited to work at the aforementioned authorities or a former civil servant when their qualification rank is brought into compliance with the special titles. At the same time, when such persons are assigned special titles, their respective qualification ranks earned in the Civil Service will be taken into account subject to the Civil Service Law.

Next, the Committee looked at the first reading of the amendments to the Labour, Civil Procedural, Family, Civil, Tax, Criminal Procedural and Administrative Procedural Codes of the Azerbaijan Republic as well as to the Code of Administrative Offences and the laws ‘On the Social Insurance’, ‘On the Medical Insurance’, ‘On the State Duty’, ‘On the Judicial and Law Council’ and ‘On the Administrative Proceedings’.

It was said that the tabled amendments had been drawn up in connexion with the application of the Azerbaijan Republic Law ‘On Mediation’ of 29 March 2019. The legal standards of participation of initial mediation sessions on commercial disputes and family as well as labour relations and the legal standards to regulate the issues connected to the initial and subsequent mediation sessions, all included in Article 39 of the Law, are to come into effect on 1 July 2021. The amendments put before the Committee were of a harmonising nature and are concerned with those matters referred to above.

Ali Huseynli then informed the assembled of the third agenda item, to wit, the amendments (in the first reading) to several articles of the Mediation Law that are designed to streamline it.

The acting Chairman of the Mediation Council Ruslan Mirzayev who was present at the meeting told its participants of the mediator training process and of the work done to have the institution of mediation in action in the country.

The committee members Gudrat Hasanguliyev, Bahrouz Maharramov and Tahir Karimli expressed their views upon the institution’s part in resolving disputes and upon the associated tasks.

As for the next item that the Committee considered, it was the second reading of the Bill containing amendments to the Civil Service Law which, it was noted, were of a harmonising nature and meant to reinforce the social protection of civil servants.

It was ultimately recommended that all the four items on the agenda of the meeting should be tabled for consideration at a plenum of the Milli Majlis.

The committee members Amina Agazade, Sabir Hajiyev, Jabi Guliyev and Nurlan Hasanov as well as other officials were taking part in the meeting as well.

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