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TITLE XIII: THE ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND
CULTURAL COUNCIL
• Right to culture
Article 106
The Economic, Social and Cultural Council shall have competence in all aspects of
economic, social and cultural development.
It shall participate in all projects of national interest of an economic, social and
cultural character.
Article 107
The Economic, Social and Cultural Council shall collect, (and) put into suitable form,
with the participation of the different entities of which it is composed, to the
attention of the President of the Republic, the Government and the National
Assembly, the yearly collection of aspirations, the needs and the problems of the civil
society with directions and propositions.
Article 108
The Economic, Social and Cultural Council shall be obligatorily consulted on any
appropriations bill, any economic, social or cultural plan or program as well as any
legislative dispositions of a fiscal, economic, social and cultural character.
Article 109
The Economic, Social and Cultural Council may designate one of its members, upon
the demand of the President of the Republic, the Government, or the National
Assembly, in order to expound before these organs the views of the Council on the
projects or propositions which are submitted to it.
The Government and the National Assembly shall have the obligation, when they are
in session, to give effect to the views and reports formulated by the Economic, Social
and Cultural Council within a maximum of three months for the Government and
before the end of the current session for the National Assembly.
It shall receive a copy of laws, ordnances and decrees from the moment of their
promulgation. It shall be apprized of decisions of the Government relative to
economic, social and cultural organization.
Article 110
Shall be members of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council:
• representatives of unions, associations, socio-professional organizations
elected by their associations or organizations of origin;
• high officials of the State in the economic, social and cultural domain;
• representatives of the territorial units designated by their peers;
• representatives of Malian established outside of Mali.
Mali 1992
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