Just before the wrap-up of the Assembly’s spring session, KDI organized a roundtable to discuss on: how the lack of legislative agenda is impacting its work and what on the efficiency of the assembly in law-making process? Should the Assembly act as “filter” or “rubberstamp’ “in the lawmaking process?

Roundtable participants mainly from civil society and two Chairwomen of the Parliamentary Committees on European Integration and Legislation, Njomza Emini and Albulena Haxhiu brought up the main challenges that have followed the Assembly and Parliamentary Committees in the spring session:

• Absence of Work Plan of the Assembly, although it is required by the Rules of Procedure;

• Adoption of laws through an accelerated procedure, thus returning the same laws for additions or changes;

• Low presence of the Ministries which sponsor the laws with the members of the Committees of the Assembly;

• Lack of seriousness of Parliamentary Committees for monitoring of the implementation of laws;

• Ethics of MPs fail to carry out their work in a professional manner, mostly by failing to read the laws.

Participants recommended the engagement of assistants / support staff for committees, especially knowing that commissions are provided with the budget. They also recommended that the existing budget, often unspent, to be used for parliamentary research.

 

KDI would like to thank the two panelists, MPs Njomza Emini and Albulena Haxhiur for their readiness for cooperation with civil society, in favor of improving the quality of laws and increase the efficiency and capacity of the Assembly.