At their meeting held today, the Committee on Health, Labour and Social Welfare of the Parliament of Montenegro considered the Proposal for the Law on Amendments to the Law on Social Council.

Apart from the members of the Committee, Mr Slobodan Filipović, Director of the Directorate for Labour, and Ms Tijana Prelević, Head at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, also attended the meeting, as representatives of the proponent of the Proposal for the Law on Amendments to the Law on Social Council.

Mr Slobodan Filipović, Director of the Directorate for Labour elaborated on the Proposal for the Law, stating that the basic reasons for amending the Law on Social Council were contained in the fact that by adopting the Law on Prevention of Conflict of Interest, a problem had arisen regarding the functioning of the Social Council, where Article 3 stipulated that a public official was a person elected and appointed in a state authority body, state administration body, judiciary body, local self-government body, local administration body, independent body, regulatory body, public institution, public company and other legal person exercising public authority, i.e. activities in public interest or it was owned by the state, as well as a person for whose election or appointment a government body should give consent.

The following MPs: Mr Neven Gošović, Mr Andrija Popović, Mr Izet Bralić, as well as the Chairperson of the Committee Mr Zoran Jelić, participated in the discussion.

The Committee supported the Proposal for the Law on Amendments to the Law on Social Council by a majority of votes, and proposed its adoption to the Parliament.