The parliamentary group of the Liberal Democratic Party submitted a legislative initiative aimed at preventing situations of conflicts of interest in commissions of inquiry. Under the initiative, the Parliament’s regulations should be amended so that they provide that any candidate proposed for the post of member of a commission of inquiry, before the nominal composition of the commission is approved, must file a statement pointing to the absence of conflicts of interests between the duties fulfilled within the commission and the personal interests, IPN reports, quoting a communiqué from the party.

The provision is in line with the regulations governing the activity of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where the members of the commissions of inquiry are obliged to avoid any conflict between the economic, commercial, financial and other interests at professional or personal level, on the one hand, and the public interest in the work of the representative body, on the other hand.

The authors of the legislative initiative voiced hope that the bill will be endorsed by other MPs in a concerted effort to avoid conflicts of interest between the duties fulfilled within the commission and the personal interests.