constituteproject.org PDF generated: 17 Jan 2014, 16:43 Title IX Of the Consultative Institutions Article 94 A High Islamic Council composed of five (5) members is instituted before the President of the Republic. The President and the other members of the High Islamic Council are appointed by the President of the Republic. The High Islamic Council meets at the demand of the President of the Republic. It formulates an opinion on the questions concerning which it is consulted by the President of the Republic. Article 95 The Economic and Social Council, referred to [the matter] by the President of the Republic, gives its opinion concerning the Bills of law, the ordinances, or the decrees of an economic or social character as well as concerning the proposals of law of the same nature which are submitted to it. The Economic and Social Council may designate one of its members to present before the parliamentary assemblies the opinion of the Council concerning the Bills or proposals of law that have been submitted to it. Article 96 The Economic and Social Council can also be consulted by the President of the Republic concerning any economic or social question of interest to the State. Any plan and bill of program law of an economic or social character is submitted to it for [an] opinion. The composition of the Economic and Social Council and its rules and functioning are established by an organic law. Article 97 The National Commission of the Rights of Man is the independent consultative Institution of promotion and of protection of the Rights of Man. The composition, the organization and the functioning of the National Commission of the Rights of Man are established by an organic law. Mauritania 1991 (rev. 2012) Page 23