National Assembly : Six Bills Adopted

Some six bills were on November 19, 2021 adopted at the National Assembly during a plenary sitting chaired by the Senior Deputy Speaker, Hon. Hilarion Etong in the presence of the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Relations with the Assemblies, Bolvine Wakata. 
The first document to be adopted was the Settlement bill of the Republic of Cameroon for the 2020 financial year, which had earlier been defended before the Committee on Finance and the Budget on November 15, 2021 by the Minister of Finance. The bill presents in income and expenditure the execution of the 2020 State budget which was influenced at the national level by the holding of the second Debate on Budget Policies between the government and Parliament, at the end of which the import-substitution policy, local processing of products and budget consolidation were chosen. 
Bill No.2001/PJL/AN to authorise the President of the Republic to proceed with Cameroon’s Accession to the Agreement on the Establishment of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), was also adopted. The bill defines a legal framework for the exploitation of bamboo and rattan for the benefit of the population. 
Another adopted legal instrument is the bill to authorise the President of the Republic to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted on December 13, 2006. Its ratification seeks to strengthen existing legislation in Cameroon and represents a shift in the perception of the disabled person from purely medical or charitable considerations to a rights-based approach, in order to ensure that these vulnerable people participate in the adoption of decisions concerning them. 
Members of the National Assembly also adopted the bill to ratify the Protocol to the A...