constituteproject.org PDF generated: 14 Oct 2013, 20:27 TITLE V Of the RELATIONS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PARLIAMENT Article 81 The National Assembly votes the law in last resort. It controls the action of the Government. The Senate receives the bills and the proposals of law for deliberation. The Senate gives its opinion obligatorily before the vote by the National Assembly on any bill or proposal of constitutional law, of all the texts relative to the territorial organization of the Republic and of the bill of the law of finance. In all cases, the opinion of the Senate is considered as given if it is not pronounced within the fifteen (15) days of its referral to [the matter] or eight (08) days in case of procedure of urgency. Article 82 The National Assembly has control over its agenda. It informs the Government of it. The inscription, by priority, in the agenda of the National Assembly, of a bill or a proposal of law or of a declaration of general policy, is of right if the Government makes demand for it. Article 83 The initiative of laws belongs concurrently to the deputies and to the Government. Article 84 The law establishes the rules concerning: • citizenship, the civic rights and the exercise of the public freedoms; the system of establishment of the list of paid and unpaid holidays; the constraints raised by the necessities of the National Defense; nationality, the status and the capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes, inheritance and gifts; the procedure following which customs are declared and harmonized with the fundamental principles of the Constitution; the determination of crimes and offenses as well as the penalties applicable to them, the criminal procedure, [and] amnesty; the organization of the judicial and administrative tribunals and the procedure before these jurisdictions, the status of the magistrates, of the ministerial officers and of the auxiliaries of justice; the determination of the financial competences of the constitutional and administrative authorities; the base, the rates and the modalities of collection of the taxes of all natures; the regulation of the issuance of the currency; the electoral regimes of the National Assembly and of the Local Assemblies; the remuneration of the public functions; the nationalization of enterprises and the transfer of ownership of enterprises of the public sector to the private sector; the creation of categories of public establishments; Togo 1992 (rev. 2007) Page 18