The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies will meet on Tuesday for a joint meeting to appoint some members of the Council of the National Council for the Study of Security Archives, amendments to Law no. 96/2006 regarding the statute of deputies and senators, as well as for information from President Klaus Iohannis regarding the participation of the Romanian army forces in international actions.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 13:00.

• On March 18, the leadership of the parliament launched the procedure for appointing nine new members of the Collegium of the National Council on Archive Security, whose terms of office will expire on March 26.

The mandates of the members are expiring: Constantin Bouchet (appointed by the government), Valentin Blenaru (PSD groups), Adrian Mihai Cioflanka (PSD groups), Casimir Ionescu (PSD groups), Katalin Borys Prekul (PSD groups), Nicolae Vouvrea (PSD). groups), Ladislav Antoniou Chendes (UDMR), Hermina Nagac (USR). There is also a vacancy in the CNSAS College to be filled by the Office of the President.

Parliament’s legal committees meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday to hear candidates for the positions and draw up a report to be voted on by roll call in the legislature’s plenary session.

• The legislative initiative to amend Law No. 96/2006 on the Statute of Deputies and Senators, on the agenda of the joint session on Tuesday, contains provisions to “diversify and strengthen the legal provisions relating to parliamentary discipline in order to correlate the provisions on sanctions provided for in the Regulation two chambers”.

The agenda also includes information from President Klaus Iohannis regarding the approval of the forces and assets of the Romanian Army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which will be sent to missions and operations outside the national territory in 2024, regarding the approval of the participation of Romanian troops. Army in the European Union’s Security and Defense Initiative in the Gulf of Guinea starting in 2024, as well as the approval of the entry, deployment and operation of a Dutch force of 140 soldiers.

At the same time, on the agenda are briefings by the President on the approval of the deployment and deployment in Romania of the NATO response/reaction force with a very high response potential (VJTF/ARF) or the transit of the national territory, as the case may be. may be in 2024 and instructing the Minister of National Defense to approve possible changes in the structure/composition of the VJTF for 2024, as well as to approve the transit of equipment and material assets provided by Finland to Ukraine and the training of approximately 50 Ukrainian military personnel.

The parliamentarians are going to make a number of changes to the parliamentary friendship groups and commissions – the UNESCO Commission, the Joint Special Commission for Specialized Parliamentary Scrutiny of Europol (JPSG), the Joint Special Commission for Supporting the Process of Romania’s Accession to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as well as the Special Commission for control over the activities of the Foreign Intelligence Service. (Agerpress)