The Working Group set up in view of the fulfillment of the EU Recommendations for the Candidate Status accomplished its performance today. At the meeting, the attendees discussed the reconciled positions and reviewed 11 mechanisms of Parliamentary oversight, such are the question of MP, interpellation, annual report of the Prime Minister, the appearance of the officials to the Parliament, Ministerial Hour, thematic inquiry, oversight of the enforcement of the normative acts etc. so far stipulated under the Rules of Procedure and already submitted to the Parliament in the form of the legal initiative.

“We agreed actually on all the main issues within the Group. Now, we intend to submit the legal initiative to increase Governmental accountability to the Parliament, enhance the application of the interpellation, and ensure stricter and proactive Parliamentary oversight on the key mechanisms, such are the question of MP; at the same time, the legal initiative envisages the stricter oversight on the mandatory appearance of an official at the Committee sitting.

As to the Ministerial Hour, as stipulated under the Rules of Procedure, this procedure allows MPs to ask a question and a specifying question and hear an answer. There are other key leverages held by the Parliament, such as the thematic inquiry, and oversight of the enforcement of the normative acts, which were as well discussed and reconciled by us; we achieved a consensus to commence the thematic inquiry even in case of an ordinary majority along with the list majority. Currently, the Parliament holds quite vast instruments, which were supplemented by other mechanisms within our Group to further enhance the efficiency of the Parliamentary oversight”, - said the Chair of the Procedural Issues and Rules Committee and the Head of the Working Group, Irakli Kadagishvili.