Organized by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre the “Regulatory Impact Assessment and Legislative Elaboration” Workshop begins on Monday, December 13, at 4:00pm in the Auditorium of Economic Services of the Macao SAR, Rua Dr. Pedro José Lobo n.° 1 - 3, Luso International Bank Building, 7th floor. This workshop will feature the following guest speakers: 1. Dr. António Pedro da Fonseca Delicado, Legal Adviser in the Justice Policy Directorate General of the Ministry of Justice, Portugal; 2. Dra. Paula Cristina Meira Lourenço, Assistant at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law, Portugal. The objective of this workshop is to reinforce the practical knowledge of all practitioners in the legal field on the production of normative legal acts. During the five daily sessions, taking place from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, till this coming December 17th, the following areas will be discussed: 1) Guidelines for formal and legislative material drafting; 2) The drafter of legal instrument(s), information and the team / institutional development models; 3) Preliminary and continuous regulatory impact analysis of legal instruments; 4) Public consultations and relations with stakeholders; 5) Common problems and pitfalls on drafting legislations. This action will be conducted in Portuguese, with simultaneous translation into Cantonese, and has about 81 participants enrolled. The 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, extending until December 2012, which embodies this workshop, has the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” as its main objective. The total budget for the programme is 1.500.000 euros (approximately 16.500.000 patacas), this programme is co-financed by the European Union and the Macao Foundation, with the remaining costs being supported by the MSAR’s budget. The execution of the Co-operation Programme is coordinated by the International Law Office (GADI), with the participation of several other MSAR’s entities and public departments, namely, the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (CFJJ), the Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ), the Economic Services (DSE), the Financial Services Bureau (DSF) and the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM).
