连云港市承接地方立法权面临的机遇、挑战与应对

Opportunities, Challenges and Countermeasures of Carrying out the Local Legislative Power of Lianyungang City

根据新《立法法》的规定和江苏省人大常委会的决定,连云港市自2016年1月15日起开始行使地方立法权。地方立法权的获得为推动连云港市经济社会发展、扩大基层民主和提高依法治市水平带来新的机遇。但由于长期没有地方立法权,连云港市在地方立法观念、地方立法制度、地方立法资源以及地方立法权范围等方面仍面临一系列挑战。为了更好地承接地方立法权工作,连云港市有关部门应积极转变立法观念、细化并完善立法配套制度、加强对地方立法资源的培育与合作、系统分析地方立法权范围、坚持立改废释并举,从而最大限度地挖掘和利用现有制度潜力,不断提高地方立法能力和水平,为连云港市经济社会发展营造良好的法治环境。

According to the new Legislation Act and the decision of the Standing Committee of Jiangsd Province, Lianyungang city has begun to exercise local legislative power from January 15, 2016. This will provide much more opportunities for promoting economic and social development, extending local democracy and improving standard of ruling the city by law. However, for lacking of legislative power for a long time, there are series of challenges in local legislative notion, local legislative system, local legislative resources and legislative scope of city divided into districts. In order to better carry on the local legislative work, legislature and related departments of Lianyungang should transfer traditional legislative notion, perfect legislative system, cultivate and cooperate with local legislative resources, analyze the legislative scope systematically, and put emphasis on explaining, amending and repealing as well as making, in order to make use of the existing legislative system to the utmost, improve the capability and standard of local legislation and create better legal surroundings for local economic and social development.