| Abstract [eng] |
The quality system of legislation is a topical issue, which until now has been poorly investigated in Lithuania. Parliament is put under more pressure and more requirements so in order to keep the balance, legal acts must also face quality requirements to keep up with the high standards of legislation. The aim of the Master's thesis is to improve the quality system of legislation. Tasks of the work are: to analyze legal acts, different types of legal acts, development of drafts from initiation to admission; to analyze the issues of the quality system of legislation; carry out an author's survey; to prepare proposals for improvement of the quality system. Master's thesis consists of analysis of scientific and normative literature, description of research methodology, description of research results, proposals and conclusions presented by the author. In an exploratory study, an unstructured interview method was used, while the main study used half-structured interviews, giving respondents the opportunity to provide additional information they consider important at the time of the interview. During the literature and document analysis, it was established that the quality system of legislation in Lithuania exists in the Law on the Basis of Legislation of the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublikos teisėkūros pagrindų įstatymas), the Order of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania on the Approval of Recommendations for the Drafting of Legislative Acts (Lietuvos Respublikos teisingumo ministro įsakymas dėl teisės aktų projektų rengimo rekomendacijų patvirtinimo), and the Order of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania on the Approval of the Documents Preparation Rules (Lietuvos vyriausiojo archyvaro įsakymas dėl dokumentų rengimo taisyklių patvirtinimo). These legal acts provide for the principles of law, rules of the legal technique and the procedure for preparing documents, which must be followed during the drafting of legal acts. During the analysis, the reasons for possible incorrect use of the quality system of legislation were formed, which are to be checked during the author's research. The author's research analyzed the problematic aspects of the use of the legal framework for the quality system. It has been established that the misuse of this system does not arise from the inadequate system, but due to the qualification of Parliament members, their assistants qualification, distribution of funding among Parliament members and their assistants. Problematic aspects are systemic and must be aimed at eliminating them, thus consolidating the effective use of the system of quality evaluation of legislation among the representatives of the legislative branch. Two major proposals are presented for the improvement of the quality system of legislation: the creation of a methodological "book", i.e. combining the three pieces of legislation that separate the quality system of legislation into one easily accessible form and reorganizing the activities of the Legal Department in the Parliament, creating an initial and secondary evaluation of draft legal acts, thus avoiding common mistakes made by Parliament members and their assistants. |
