The submission of amendments by the deputies and senators should be conditioned by a parallel submission of at least a minimum impact assessment of the needs and impacts.
If the submission of amendments to a properly justified and publicly consulted draft law was conditioned by a parallel and timely submission o at least a minimum necessity and impact assesment, it would be possible to prevent non-systemic last minute changes to adopted laws which are frequently made as a result of pressure of interest group, and not in the public interest.
Sources:
- Resolution of the Government of the Czech Republic: General principles for regulation of impact assessment (RIA), 2007, updated version dated 2011, p. 23 - 24
- Analysis of the Green Circle – Legislative amendments of deputies, Rekonstrukce státu, 2013, p. 15-16
- Kohout, P. andcoll., Collection of texts of a working group for the fight against corruption, National Economic Government Council, June 2011), p. 89 - 91
- Weiss, T., Reinforcing the transparency of the legislative process in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Europeum, Institute for European Policy, p. 7 - 8
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 13: (Poor)Quality of Czech laws, December 2013
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