Mozambique may introduce the first law to regulate scientific activity in different areas of knowledge. The Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education says that the legal regime will adapt research and scientific developments to current and future needs. Cited by Notícias, Daniel Nivagara predicted that the regulatory instrument will contribute to...
Parliament definitively approves law banning the indiscriminate use of drones
The Assembly of the Republic (AR) approved the law on aerial surveys and cinematography for civilian purposes by consensus on Thursday (28), giving the Minister of Defence the power to authorize the use of drones by national and foreign companies. According to the Executive, the law will establish the principles and guidelines for...
PR enacts Law to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, has promulgated and ordered the publication of the Revision of the Law that establishes the Legal Regime and Measures to Prevent and Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. "The Head of State took the decision in the use of the powers conferred on him by the Constitution, and after having verified...
Obliged to declare income: SISE, SERNIC, SENAMI, INATRO, PRM, PT, PM...
The proposal to revise the Public Probity Law stipulates that public officials must declare their assets and income within 45 days of taking office or beginning to exercise their office or function. The proposal has already been submitted to Parliament for consideration....
Parliament approves ban on indiscriminate use of drones
The deputies of the Assembly of the Republic (AR) today approved, by consensus, the legal provision that prohibits the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. According to the Executive, the law will establish the principles and guidelines for the activities of capturing images by surveying unmanned flights in the country. This is the proposed Law on Aerial Surveys and Cinematography...
President of the Republic promulgates law to suppress and combat terrorism
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, has promulgated and ordered the publication of the law on Repression and Combating Terrorism and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. A note from the Presidency released yesterday, Wednesday (20), states that the head of the Mozambican state took the decision in the use of the powers conferred on him by the Constitution of...
Money laundering: Parliament approves amendments to the law on terrorist financing
The Mozambican Parliament approved this Friday (15), by consensus, two revised bills with the aim of responding to the evaluation recommendations of the third progress report for the country's removal from the gray list. These are the draft laws establishing the legal framework and measures to prevent and combat...
Parliament to review PRM and SERNIC law
The Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, said on Wednesday in Maputo that the government will soon submit to parliament a proposal to revise the Law on the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) and the National Criminal Investigation Service (PRM). The government's idea is to strengthen the institutional and operational capacities of these forces in terms of...
Parliament approves trial by videoconference
On Thursday, the Mozambican parliament approved the Law on the Electronic Processing of Judicial Proceedings, which authorizes the processing of cases electronically, such as holding trials and hearings by video conference. The instrument can help to mitigate constraints arising from procedural delays, excessive use of consumables, as well as difficulties in carrying out court proceedings,...
State may recover idle land in Cabo Delgado
The revision of the Land Law could allow the state to recover, over the next two years, idle land in Cabo Delgado province, whose owners have not fulfilled the purposes for which they were granted. Some tracts of land, others 'usurped' from communities, in Montepuez (mainly in Namanhumbir), Balama and Palma, have been ceded for...