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At the Cabinet of Ministers draft legal acts are initially announced and considered at State Secretaries’ meeting.
State Secretaries’ meetings announce draft legal acts on which the ministries and other institutions identified in meetings’ protocol have to present opinion on the drafts within two weeks. During this period representatives of non-governmental organisations can also present their opinions.
State Secretaries’ meeting considers draft legal acts for which no agreement was reached during the coordination procedure, approves a list of drafts cancelled and not progressed for consideration by the Cabinet of Ministers, as well as considers fulfilment of the tasks included in laws, decisions, legal acts and orders of the Prime Minister.
State Secretaries’ meetings are chaired by the Director of the State Chancellery and usually take place once a week (on Thursdays). Voting members of the meetings are the Chief of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office, ministerial State Secretaries, Heads of Secretariats of the Minister for Special Assignments, Director of the State Chancellery and Head of the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau.
Participants in the advisory capacity can be officials of the State Chancellery, representative of the State Control, representative of the General Prosecutor’s Office, Parliamentary Secretaries, representative of the Latvian Association of Local Governments, representative of the Public Services Regulatory Committee, representative of the National Trilateral Cooperation Council, representative of the National Regional Development Council, representative of non-governmental organisations and other persons invited by the Director of the State Chancellery (for consideration of a specific issue in the agenda).
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