Of the Economic and Social Council

The Economic and Social Council is given the charge to give its opinion on all the questions brought to its examination by the President of the Republic, the Government, the National Assembly, the Senate or any other public institution.

The Economic and Social Council is consulted, for [its] opinion, on any project of plan or of economic and social program as well as on any bill of [a] text of fiscal, economic and social character.

It may equally proceed to analyze any problem of economic and social development. It submits its conclusions to the President of the Republic, to the Government, to the National Assembly and to the Senate.

It monitors the execution of the decisions of the Government relative to economic and social organization.

The Economic and Social Council may designate one of its members, at the demand of the President of the Republic, of the Government, of the National Assembly or of the Senate, to present before these organs the opinion of the Council on the bills or proposals that have been submitted to it.

The Economic and Social Council elects from within it its president and the members of its bureau.

The Economic and Social Council has a section in each economic region of the country.

The composition, the organization and the functioning of the Economic and Social Council as well as of its sections are established by an organic law.