The Parliamentary Committee on Institutions, Values and Governance Commissioner met today, Wednesday, 30 March 2022, and discussed the following issues:
1. The Assessment of Candidates for Appointment to the Public Service (Amendment) (No. 3) Act, 2021
(Bill proposed by Mr. Dimitrios Demetriou on behalf of the Parliamentary Group of the Democratic Rally)
(File No. 23.02.062.155-2021)
The committee continued, in the presence of representatives of the relevant government departments, the discussion on the revised text of the above proposal for a law, which provides for a mandatory written examination both for admission posts whose initial salary scale does not exceed the A9 scale of the government salary scale and for admission posts whose initial salary scale does not exceed the A11 scale of the government salary scale. The Committee decided to take a position on the proposed legislation at its next meeting.
2. The Controlling the Taking of Employment in the Private Sector by Former Government Officials and Certain Former Employees of the Public and Wider Public Sector (Amendment) Act, 2022
(No. Fak. 23.01.063.024-2022)
The Committee, in the presence of representatives of relevant government departments and stakeholders, continued its discussion of the above bill, the purpose of which is to amend the basic law to broaden its scope by including in the definition of the term "public and broader public sector employee" members of the Police. This extension of the scope of the law to include members of the police will increase the number of vetted government employees who will be required to obtain leave before taking up employment in the private sector after leaving their position in the public sector or the wider public sector, a measure which may act as a deterrent to corruption and corruption. The Committee proposed to consider the possible extension of the scope of the relevant legislation to additional officials and employees in the public and wider public sector, in addition to members of the Police, and decided to continue discussion of the issue at its next meeting.
3.The necessity of applying the incompatibility between being a Member of Parliament and other professions. Nikos Tornaritis, Onoufrios Koulla and Marinos Mousiuttas)
(File No. 23.04.038.375-2021)
The Committee, in the presence of the Chairman of the Committee for the Investigation of Incompatibility provided for in the relevant law and a special expert - one of the authors of a study on the introduction of a legislative framework on conflict of interest - began the discussion of the above issue, in the context of which it examined the need to revise the legislative framework governing the incompatibility between being a Member of Parliament and exercising a profession. The Committee decided to continue its discussion of the matter at its next meeting.
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