Cuba fulfilled a broad legislative schedule during 2022

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 12 (ACN) Cuba complied during 2022 with a broad legislative schedule that included the approval of 15 laws and eight decree-laws, informed today Oscar Sivera Martinez, minister of Justice and president of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP).

In information offered to the deputies and in the presence of the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel, and Esteban Lazo Hernandez, President of the ANPP, he recalled that in the December 22, 2021 session of the Parliament, corresponding to the 8th ordinary period of sessions of the 9th Legislature, the legislative schedule for the current year was readjusted.

At that time, he pointed out, 27 laws were foreseen (15 planned since December 2019, five that were not approved in 2021, and seven that were not included in the initial schedule); as well as 15 decree-laws (nine initially foreseen, two that were not concluded in 2021 and four incorporated due to the legislative needs of the country).

During 2022, progress was made in the drafting of the proposed legal provisions by the working groups created for this purpose, and of the 30 laws foreseen in the legislative schedule for 2022, 15 were approved.

Among them, to mention the Food and Nutritional Security Law, the Personal Data Protection Law, the Expropriation Law for reasons of public utility or social interest, the Penal Code and the Family Code.

According to Silvera Martinez, in view of the need to continue deepening their studies, it was approved that 16 laws would not be presented this year and included in the legislative schedule to be submitted to the decision of the next legislature.

These are the Tax Law, the State Patrimony Law, the Corporate Law, the Commercial Companies Law, the Consumer Rights Protection Law, the Internal Migration Law, the Central State Administration Law, the Special Labor Regimes Law, the Administrative Procedure Law, the Military Offenses Law, the Population Attention Law, the Housing Law, the Contraventions Law, the Transparency and Access to Information Law, the Associative Forms Law and the Public Health Law.

Regarding the decree-laws, he pointed out that a total of 11 were foreseen in the schedule for 2022, out of the 14 initially foreseen, of which eight were approved.

According to the justice minister, those related to Conflict Mediation and Security and Physical Protection were also recently submitted to the Council of State for analysis.

Concerning the decree-law "Improvement of the Ministry of Domestic Trade", it was decided that its approval was not necessary because the current mission of that body is sufficient for the fulfillment of the functions assigned to it.

The parliamentarians ratified the decree-laws and agreements approved by the Council of State in the period between July 10 and November 20, 2022, among them, the ratification of the Convention on the International Organization of Aids to Maritime Navigation and the Headquarters Agreement between the Republic of Cuba and the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OIE).