Political orientation of the head of government ministers and state secretaries
Posted by Manuel Casal | Section News
The BOPA yesterday (21/53) published the message of political orientation of the head of government ministers and state secretaries, 9 July 2009 in relation to the management and working methods of the Government, which mentions, among others, the following:
"We must take steps to eliminate any trace of unconstitutionality in the bills that will lead to approval of the Council of Ministers for further submission to the General Council. This recommendation applies also, needless to say, for the drafting of regulations. "
"E) Civil society is irritated by the number and complexity evident exaggeration of the rules imposed by the Administration:
New rules that overlap, without inserting them clearly to existing provisions. Obscure texts that raise all sorts of difficulties in interpretation and application.
Unnecessarily complex procedures in which appears the spark of litigation developments. Provisions, without normative content that should appear only in the explanatory statements or debates. Using a kind of coded language known only to the initiated and gives the Administration and some experts monopoly on interpretation.
Consequently, I ask:
To verify, before preparing a legal norm, the problem can not find a solution by other means as may be: information campaigns or persuasion, negotiation with stakeholders, agreements and better organization of your services.
We always ask before promoting new regulations, if the rules are not a sufficient legal framework.
In an effort to clean up our legal standards that have become obsolete or unnecessarily stringent.
I do encourage knowledge and understanding of a law before which no one can plead ignorance. Coding offers a privileged framework to gather a body of rules to date exploded in many texts. Need to modernize and simplify the administrative law. "
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