The sum of urgency established by the Executive will be entered into Congress at the next Senate Chamber session.
Recently, the Government of Chile confirmed that it will grant the utmost urgency to the bill declaring the Law on Fisheries null and void. The motion, filed on January 6, 2016, states that "it causes the nullity of the current Fisheries Law, since there are judicial decisions condemning it for bribery that prove that during its processing there was an undue interference of particular interests in its content".
The initiative, which is currently in the second legislative process in the Senate, was approved by a broad consensus in the Chamber of Deputies: 117 votes in favour and none against.
In this context, the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Subpesca), whose helm is the lawyer Julio Salas Gutiérrez, has reiterated that a possible nullity of the current law does not leave the sector without regulation since, if this motion is approved, two years are foreseen for the issuance of a new law.
"This is a reasonable period of time that allows for the drafting and processing of a new Fisheries Law, an initiative in which the Government is working as a priority from the beginning of the period and which contemplates an unprecedented process of participatory citizen dialogues that begin on 21 September of this year and seek to integrate the vision of all the actors involved," the Subpesca stressed in a public statement, adding that the commitment made by the Executive in this matter is to initiate the processing of the bill in Congress during the first half of 2023.
The sum of urgency established by the administration of President Gabriel Boric will be entered into Congress at the next Senate Chamber session.
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