Another blow for Matovič: Club 500 harshly criticizes the legislative process of the Minister of Finance’s proposals! Requests control – Topky.sk

At its meeting on May 18, the government approved the proposal of the Minister of Finance on the tax on Russian oil. The proposal envisages that the Slovnaft refinery will pay an extraordinary tax on the price advantage it brings to the processing of Russian oil. Currently, the difference between Brent oil and Russian oil is about $ 30 per barrel, and the refinery has to pay a third of this amount as a tax. Along with the proposal, a proposal for an abbreviated legislative procedure was approved, with the law being to apply from 1 June. However, this date will not be met, because the coalition could not agree on the form of the law and the parliament moved the discussion on the bill from the May to the June session, which will begin in a few days. However, many experts have expressed concerns about the impact that the Russian oil tax will have on consumers’ money. Now, however, there is another problem, and that is precisely the shortening of the legislative procedure. Archive VIDEO Chairman of the parliamentary group We are a family Peter Pčolinský stated that SaS and OĽANO did not agree in the case of taxation of Russian oil Club 500 pointed out that the standard legislative process provides for the public to be able to comment on the proposal . In the case of an abbreviated legislative procedure, the public has the opportunity to comment, but the time limit may not be less than 7 days. And this is exactly the problem with the draft laws from the workshop of the Ministry of Finance. “However, these standards, which are also binding for the government itself, are followed in practice as follows. The public learned for the first time about the proposed legislation on the “Russian oil tax” and on “financing the child’s leisure time” on the day of the government’s meeting at 11:26. Such a procedure is a fundamental violation of all guarantees provided by the future addressees of legal norms in accordance with the Constitution, laws and illegal norms, “stated the 500 club on the Legal Letters portal. Photo gallery (4) Source: Getty Images What’s more, they talk about destroying the legitimacy of expectations and the functioning of the legal legislative process, because the government ignores a number of rules or its own guarantees, which they have committed themselves to in the government’s program statement. In the club’s view, the recipients of future standards should not be deprived of their constitutional rights, even if politicians are unable to fulfill their role on time. Moreover, the club also states that such a violation of the legislative process will be evaluated by the Constitutional Court so that it was adopted in violation of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. Club 500 also has a culprit who is responsible for the whole problem. Photo gallery (4) Slovnaft Refinery in Bratislava
Source: TASR / Jaroslav Novák “This whole undesirable social situation is caused by the lack of supervision over the legality of conducting abbreviated legislative proceedings. In line with the commitments made by this government in the PVV, it is time to start a debate on increasing the transparency of shortened legislative procedures. In this case, however, the protection body for such a right is absent. Ultimately, we are witnessing that we are currently facing absolute government arbitrariness. Thanks to the additional control of the legitimacy of abbreviated legislative procedures, we would be able to avoid all the negative consequences that such legislation brings, “they warned. Photo gallery (4) Prosecutor General’s Office
Source: TASR – Jaroslav Novák Therefore, they suggest that independent and impartial state bodies supervise compliance with the law, such as the General Prosecutor’s Office or the Supreme Administrative Court. “In terms of the applicable legal preconditions, which are imposed on the shortened legislative procedure, their objective examination itself is relatively undemanding. For this reason, the petitioner would request a shortening of the legislative procedure to the non-criminal section of the General Prosecutor’s Office, which would decide without undue delay on the possibility of conducting a shortened legislative procedure. Should such a request not be met, these assumptions would be examined by the Supreme Administrative Court as a guarantor of independent decision-making. In order to avoid being overwhelmed by such an agenda, the principle would apply that a once-decided matter for which an abbreviated legislative procedure is being conducted would not be decided again, e.g. pandemic, “they told from the club. In the end, they suggest. In order to launch an expert or public debate on the need to scrutinize the shortened legislative procedure, the justification of which will be protected by an independent body. Another blow for Matovič: Club 500 harshly criticizes the legislative process of the Minister of Finance’s proposals! He asks for a check