With 40 votes in favour out of a total of 40 MPs present, the House of Assembly passed a law regulating the Election of Management Committees in Industrial and Manufacturing Developments.
The law was passed following a bill proposed by the Parliamentary Committee on Commerce, as the election of management committees is deemed necessary for the purpose of effective representation and better management of the affairs of any industrial or craft development, mainly for the purpose of preventing and addressing any problems affecting it, said the explanatory memorandum accompanying the bill.
The Commerce Committee's report to the House of Assembly states that the provisions of the passed law contain an obligation for the owners of the units of each industrial or craft development to convene a meeting for the purpose of electing a management committee and an obligation for the chairman of the elected management committee to register it in the register to be kept by the competent local authority.
The law defines the responsibilities of this management committee and provides the Council of Ministers with the power to issue regulations to better implement the provisions of the law upon the proposal of the Minister of Energy, Trade and Industry.
Under the law, the term of office of the members of the management committee is three years and five members, regardless of the size of the area represented, participate in it.
The Act applies to an industrial, manufacturing or storage facility located within a specific industrial or manufacturing zone or district for the uses identified in the applicable development plan.
During the discussion preceding the vote, Trade Committee Chairman Kyriakos Hatzigiannis referred to the joint initiative of the Trade Committee members to adopt the produced legislation, because in many areas there is no institutionalized interlocutor to expose the problems and undertake obligations. She made specific reference to what happened in Vasiliko, noting that while everyone was expressing concerns there was no interlocutor who could voice the problems.
She also said that once the law is enacted, the executive will be accountable to the problems of any industrial area.
AKEL MP Kostas Kostas, continuing to report the findings of the Trade Committee, said that in Vasiliko there was no responsible interlocutor to coordinate.
Regarding the law passed, he observed that it is not the best, adding that problems are likely to arise and assured that the Parliament will be ready to make corrections. He also said that when the discussion of the proposed law began, there were obstacles from departments and institutions, but in the end the Commerce Committee worked hard and persistently and the law was passed.
DIKO Parliamentary Representative Panicos Leonidou said that after the visits made by the Commerce Committee to industrial areas, the gap filled by the new body with legal personality rights and obligations was noted.
DPA MP Michalis Yiakoumi expressed the hope that the adoption of the law will pave the way for the Government to contribute to the development of industry and crafts.
MP of the Ecologists' Movement - Citizens' Co-operation Stavros Papadouris expressed the view that the Parliament has established a democratic institution.
Source: CNA
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