By Plenary Sessions: Peeter Tali

The main legislative priorities involve processing the mandates for foreign operations (OIR and the NATO training mission in Iraq), ensuring that the area of operations is precisely defined. Also a focus is the amendment of the Constitution to update the national defense chapter and address security policy issues related to suffrage. [The body/government] supports the use of exceptional procedures for fulfilling time-critical allied obligations, while simultaneously emphasizing parliamentary oversight.

The legislative focus is aimed at streamlining and filtering the transposition of European Union law to avoid unnecessary EU regulations by applying the 2-for-1 principle. Emphasis is placed on the role of ELAK in developing positions binding on the government regarding European Union initiatives. The speaker calls upon the other standing committees to be more active in the sectoral analysis of EU initiatives.