House of Representatives Adopts Two Government Bills on the Higher Justice Institute and the National Order of Pharmacists
The House of Representatives adopted on Monday, June 26, 2023, two Government Bills related to the Higher Justice Institute and the National Order of Phamacists. The adoption took place during a legislative plenary sitting chaired by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Rachid Talbi El Alami and attended by the Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, Ms. Ghita Mezzour.
During the sitting, the Representatives adopted by a majority of votes Government Bill 37.22 on the Higher Justice Institute. The Bill falls within the scope of the efforts aimed at implementing the comprehensive and deep reform of the justice system, complementing the institutional edifice of judicial power in our country, consolidating its bases, and equipping it with the necessary legal mechanisms to perform its functions in the best manner.
The Bill falls under the last paragraph of Article 8 of Organic Law 106.13 operating as Statute of Judges, stipulating "a law shall define the functions, organization, and management of the institution in charge of training judges." The Bill amends the legal framework of the Higher Justice Institute to adapt it to the developments resulting from the institutional independence of the judicial power and the related legislative and organic texts. The Bill also sets rules that regulate several themes and areas where Organic Law 106.13 refers to a special law.
Besides, the Bill aims to establish a new legal framework for the Higher Justice Institute, define its organizational rules, prerogatives, and management, with a view to contributing to the institutional edifice of judicial power at the levels of advancing the judicial training system, ameliorating the performance of judges, and developing and moralizing the justice system in our country given its important role in successfully implementing the Strategic Plan of the Supreme Council of Judicial Power.
During the same sitting, the Representatives adopted by a majority of votes Government Bill 98.18 on the National Order of Pharmacists, which intends the review of the provisions established by Dahir operating as Law 1.75.453 of December 17, 1976 (Dhu Hijja 25, 1396), given that they have become obsolete and they no longer respond to the transformations and changes that have marked the pharmaceutical practice since 1976.
The Bill aims to strengthen the missions of the National Order of Pharmacists as it includes several provisions related to the missions of the public services, the defense of the profession, social protection, and the promotion of scientific research, development, and innovation in the pharmaceutical area.
The Bill stipulates that the practice of pharmacy shall now be bound by enrollment in the National Order of Pharmacists, and that no one may perform any pharmaceutical function without being enrolled in the Order, which compulsorily gathers all the pharmacists authorized to practice the profession in the private and public sectors.
This legal text will render the National Order of Pharmacists the only representative of pharmacists before the public authorities and the parties in charge of defending their material, immaterial, and logistical interests. The Order will also be in charge of granting licenses to practice the profession in the private sector and examining requests to establish pharmacies and laboratories specialized in conducting biological analyses or other pharmaceutical activities.