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At March 18 sitting, the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs debated in the second reading on the Anti-Corruption Committee and the legislative package designing amendments and addenda to a number of enclosed laws.

The RA Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan presented the amendments during the period from the first to the second reading. In connection with the status of persons implementing operative-intelligence functions, a type of service in the Anti-Corruption Committee is determined. The groups of the posts of the employees of the Anti-Corruption Committee and the requirements were reconsidered.

The Government will appoint one of the three candidates proposed by the Competition Council for the Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee: previously appointed by the Prime Minister. The Special Investigation Service will be dissolved. The transitional provisions of the draft law on the Anti-Corruption Committee have been completely revised.

A number of articles based on the proposal of the Bright Armenia Faction were revised too.

The debate of the draft law on the RA Criminal Procedure Code was postponed for two months.