constituteproject.org PDF generated: 14 Apr 2014, 20:52 The National Assembly must decide within eight (8) days. If the budget is not approved at the expiration of this time period, the President of the Republic establishes it of office[,] by ordinance[,] based on the revenues from the preceding year. The Parliament controls the execution of the budget of the State and [the] annexed budgets. A statement [état] of expenses will be provided to the Parliament at the end of each six months [semestre] for the previous six months. The definitive accounts of a fiscal year [exercise] are deposited during the course of the budgetary session of the following year and approved by a law. The Court of Accounts [Cour des Comptes] is the superior Institution, independent [and] responsible for [chargée de] the control of the public finances. Its organization and its functioning as well as the status of its members will be established by an organic law. Article 69 The agenda of the Assemblies includes, by priority and in the order determined by the Government, the discussion of the Bills and proposals of law accepted by it. One sitting per week is reserved by priority for the questions of the members of the Parliament and for the responses of the Government. Article 70 The President of the Republic promulgates the laws in a time period of eight (8) days at the earliest and thirty (30) days at the latest following the transmission to him [of the laws] made by the Parliament. The President of the Republic can, during this time period, send back the Bill or the proposal of law for a second reading. If the National Assembly decides on adoption by the majority of its members, the law is promulgated and published within the time period specified in the preceding paragraph. Article 71 The state of siege and the state of urgency are decreed by the President of the Republic, for a maximum duration of thirty (30) days. This duration can be extended by the Parliament. It meets of plain right if it is not in session. The law defines the exceptional powers granted to the President of the Republic by the declarations of state of siege and of state of urgency. Article 72 The Government is held to furnish to the Parliament, in the forms specified by the law, all the explanations that have been demanded of it[,] of its management and of its acts. Article 73 The Prime Minister makes[,] once per year, during the course of the November session, a report to the National Assembly concerning the activity of the Government during the past year and presents [expose] the general outlines of his program for the coming year. Mauritania 1991 (rev. 2012) Page 14