This brings to seven the total number of bills which have been examined and adopted bythe Lower House since the June session of Parliament went underway
Members of the National Assemblyon Monday adopted the last two draft texts which were on their table for deliberation and endorsement.
This was during a plenary session chaired by the Speaker of the House, Hon Cavaye Yeguie Djibril.
During the plenary, reports detailing the work of the twoCommittees that examined the bills, were first read.
This was then followed by general debates and discussions as four Members of Parliament directed questions at the members of government who were on hand to defend the key points of the texts.
After long moments of debate and explanation from the concerned ministers, the two texts were finally adopted.
They include the bill to organise and promote volunteering in Cameroon defended by the Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, Mounouna Foutsou; and the bill to ratify ordinance N° 2021/3 of 7 June 2021 to amend and supplement some provisions of law N° 2020/18 of 17 December 2020 on the finance law of the Republic of Cameroon for the 2021 financial year, defended by the Minister of Finance Louis-Paul Motaze.
The adoption of the bills on Monday came after four others were okayed by the Members of Parliament on Friday.
The bills include the bill to authorise the President of the Republic to ratify the stepping stone agreement towards a bilateral economic partnership agreement between the Republic of Cameroon and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; bill to authorise the President of the Republic to ratify the cooperation agreement between the government of the Republic of Cameroon and the Swiss Federal Council on the reciprocal abolition of the visa requirement for holders of diplomatic or service passports, signed in Yaounde on 26 September 2014; bill to govern access to genetic resources, their derivatives, traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from their utilisation, and the bill to authorise the President of the Republic to ratify the treaty on the establishment of the African Medicines Agency adopted on 11 February 2019 in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia.
Meanwhile, one of the bills which had been earlier adopted, was promulgated into law on Monday by the President of the Republic. It was the bill to ratify ordinance N° 2021/2 of 26 May 2021 to amend and supplement some provisions of Law N° 2020/18 of 17 December 2020 on the finance law of the Republic of Cameroon for the 2021 financial year.
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