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Workshop on “Legislative Assessment and Quality of Legislation”

Macao SAR Government
2012-04-12 15:11
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Integrated in the 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Program in the Legal Field, the Legal and Judicial Training Centre is going to hold a workshop on “Legislative Assessment and Quality of Legislation”. This event will start on April 16th through 20th (Monday to Friday), from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm in the Auditorium of the Civil Service Training Centre located on Alameda Dr. Carlos D' Assumpção n.° 322-362, Cheng Feng Commercial Centre, 7th floor.

This workshop will be conducted in English, with simultaneous translation into Cantonese and Portuguese and will feature the following keynote speakers:

1. Professor Robertus Antonius Josephus van Gestel , Professor of Theory and Methods of Legislation at Tilburg University in the Netherlands; Chairman of the Dutch Association of Legislation;

2. Mr. José Alexandre Guimarães de Sousa Pinheiro, Lecturer of Law Faculty, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

The objective of this workshop is to reinforce the technical-practical knowledge of all practitioners in the legislative process up to the assessment phase and thereby improving the quality of legislation. The following topics will be discussed:

1. Introduction: how can we recognize bad laws?

2. Introduction: how can we recognize bad laws? – The Portuguese experience;

3. The instrumental function of law: legislation as a means to an end;

4. Ex ante evaluation / Regulatory Impact Assessments;

5. Sunset legislation and experimental legislation;

6. Ex post evaluation of legislation;

7. Ex post evaluation of legislation – The Portuguese experience.

The 2nd Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and is going to take place until December 2013.

The execution of the Co-operation Programme is coordinated by the Law Reform and International Law Bureau, together with many entities and public departments of the Macao SAR, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services, the Financial Services Bureau and the Institute of European Studies of Macao.


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