The President of the Republic returned to the Assembly of the Republic today the new Law of the Sea so that the parliament clarifies specific points of the diploma, pointing out that the sovereignty of the State and constitutional rules are protected.
In a note on the website of the Presidency of the Republic, it reads that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa “returned, without promulgation, the decree on the first amendment to Law no. 17/2014, of 10 April, which establishes the Bases of Policy Planning and Management of the National Maritime Space ”.
The head of state considered that there were no “sufficient reasons” to send the diploma for preventive inspection to the Constitutional Court because “the primacy of the integrity and sovereignty of the State” is reserved, with just two amendments to the legislation in question.
However, Rebelo de Sousa understood "should deserve complementary reflection and added precision" the points "regarding secondary powers, peacefully understood as delegable".
On the other hand, we would gain “in requiring that codecision procedures be included - at least in their essential outline - in the ordering instruments provided for in paragraph 3 of article 8, thus guaranteeing the conjugation between State and regions autonomous in the definition of this route ”, advised the President of the Republic.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also defends that "it will be important to save matters relating to the integrity and sovereignty of the State, by means of a final amendment", according to the letter sent to the President of the Assembly of the Republic.
The new Law of the Sea was approved on July 23, with votes in favor of PS, PAN and Liberal Initiative and abstentions from PSD, BE, PCP, CDS, “Os Verdes” and Chega.
Another 12 socialist deputies, including the former Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, signed a declaration of vote, appealing to the presidential veto of the proposal that came from the Regional Legislative Assembly of the Azores.
According to those deputies, the same “sick with political and legal vices” by creating “a fracture in national sovereignty, establishing“ a specific concept of autonomous territory that transforms the Portuguese sea, in terms of planning and management, in a sum of three spaces maritime, the Azores, Madeira and the continent ”.
Ascenso Simões, Jorge Lacão, Marcos Perestrello, Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos, Pedro Cegonho, Sérgio Sousa Pinto, José Magalhães, Rosário Gamboa, Alexandre Quintanilha, Jorge Gomes and Bruno Aragão were the PS parliamentarians who signed the text.
On the same day, the President of the Government of the Azores classified the parliament's “yes” to the pleading as “historic” for the autonomous regions and the country as a whole.
“This is truly a historic day for the Azores, for various reasons, for the autonomous regions in general and for our country. What this law enshrines is nothing more or less than the realization of a principle that has been inscribed since 2009 in the political-administrative statute of the Azores, when it refers to shared management in relation to the sea ”, declared Vasco Cordeiro.
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The President of the Republic returned to the Assembly of the Republic today the new Law of the Sea so that the parliament clarifies specific points of the diploma, pointing out that the sovereignty of the State and constitutional rules are protected.
In a note on the website of the Presidency of the Republic, it reads that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa “returned, without promulgation, the decree on the first amendment to Law no. 17/2014, of 10 April, which establishes the Bases of Policy Planning and Management of the National Maritime Space ”.
The head of state considered that there were no “sufficient reasons” to send the diploma for preventive inspection to the Constitutional Court because “the primacy of the integrity and sovereignty of the State” is reserved, with just two amendments to the legislation in question.
However, Rebelo de Sousa understood "should deserve complementary reflection and added precision" the points "regarding secondary powers, peacefully understood as delegable".
On the other hand, we would gain “in requiring that codecision procedures be included - at least in their essential outline - in the ordering instruments provided for in paragraph 3 of article 8, thus guaranteeing the conjugation between State and regions autonomous in the definition of this route ”, advised the President of the Republic.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also defends that "it will be important to save matters relating to the integrity and sovereignty of the State, by means of a final amendment", according to the letter sent to the President of the Assembly of the Republic.
The new Law of the Sea was approved on July 23, with votes in favor of PS, PAN and Liberal Initiative and abstentions from PSD, BE, PCP, CDS, “Os Verdes” and Chega.
Another 12 socialist deputies, including the former Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, signed a declaration of vote, appealing to the presidential veto of the proposal that came from the Regional Legislative Assembly of the Azores.
According to those deputies, the same “sick with political and legal vices” by creating “a fracture in national sovereignty, establishing“ a specific concept of autonomous territory that transforms the Portuguese sea, in terms of planning and management, in a sum of three spaces maritime, the Azores, Madeira and the continent ”.
Ascenso Simões, Jorge Lacão, Marcos Perestrello, Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos, Pedro Cegonho, Sérgio Sousa Pinto, José Magalhães, Rosário Gamboa, Alexandre Quintanilha, Jorge Gomes and Bruno Aragão were the PS parliamentarians who signed the text.
On the same day, the President of the Government of the Azores classified the parliament's “yes” to the pleading as “historic” for the autonomous regions and the country as a whole.
“This is truly a historic day for the Azores, for various reasons, for the autonomous regions in general and for our country. What this law enshrines is nothing more or less than the realization of a principle that has been inscribed since 2009 in the political-administrative statute of the Azores, when it refers to shared management in relation to the sea ”, declared Vasco Cordeiro.