The first 2021 autumn session meeting of the Milli Majlis Committee for Law Policy and State-Building was conducted as a video link-up on 16 September.

First Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis and chairman of the Committee Ali Huseynli began with informing the participants of the meeting of the work that the Committee had done during the spring and extraordinary sessions of the Milli Majlis in 2021.

According to Ali Huseynli, there had been 39 committee meetings convened to look at 128 items; 55 laws had been amended and added to; 1 draft resolution – the Charter of the parliamentary Disciplinary Commission – had been discussed. Also during those two sessions past the Committee had received 246 letters, proposals, applications and complaints, 99 of which had been forwarded to appropriate entities for further handling. The Committee chairman and members had taken part in online meetings of the working groups for inter-parliamentary contacts of which they are members and had held discussions with representatives of a number of international organisations. Besides, they had been telling the global community of our country’s just stance in the post-war period.

The meeting moved on to the Committee’s work plan for the 2021 autumn session with Head of the State-Building and Administrative and Defence Legislation Department of the Milli Majlis Staff Haji Mirhashim Seyid saying that the plan contained the Bills subject to the 2022 National Action Plan. The Committee also proposes to discuss several packages of amendments and addenda to the laws on NGO activities and to the Law ‘On Courts and Judges’ as well as other matters.

Further still, the autumn-session work plan includes consideration of the Bills submitted to the Milli Majlis by way of the legislative initiatives of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic, the Supreme Court, the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Supreme Mejlis of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. The committee is also to pass conclusions on all those and accompany the conclusions with appropriate and relevant proposals of its own.

The Committee members Erkin Gadirli and Tahir Karimli shared their views of the two-session performance report and the autumn-session work plan.

The meeting participants proceeded to discuss the last item on the agenda, it being a set of amendments (in the first reading) to the Civil Code of the Azerbaijan Republic and to the Laws ‘On Insolvency and Bankruptcy’, ‘On Execution’, ‘On banks’, ‘On Theatre and Theatrical Activities’, ‘On the Insurance Practice’, ‘On the Special Economic Treatment of the Export-Oriented Petroleum Operations’ and ‘On Employment’.

As Ali Huseynli commented, the proposed amendments have to do with the implementation of the compulsory medical insurance in this area and, at the same time, it is concerned with the compulsory medical insurance fees payable to supply the facility with steady financial provisions. The pertaining amendments proposed for the Civil Code consist in the new edition of its Article 61. The other aforementioned laws have to be modified accordingly as well.

The discussion of the Bill resulted in the recommendation that it should be tabled at a plenary sitting of the Milli Majlis.

It should be mentioned that the Committee members Mader Musayev, Fazail Agamali, Sabir Hajiyev, Vugar Iskandarov, Amina Agazade, Kamal Jafarov, Elshan Musayev, Jabi Guliyev, Bahrouz Maharramov and Nurlan Hasanov were taking part in the meeting, too.

The Press and Public Relations Department

The Milli Majlis