TITLE X. OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
Article 130
The Economic and Social Council is a consultative Assembly in economic, social, cultural and environmental matters.
The members of the Economic and Social Council have the title of Councilor.
The Economic and Social Council is obligatorily consulted on any plan or any bill of law of program of action with economic, social, cultural and environmental character.
On its own initiative, the Economic and Social Council can formulate recommendations or call [appeler] the attention of the Government, of the National Assembly or of the Senate to reforms that it identifies [as] appropriate on the questions relevant to its competence.
Article 131
The Economic and Social Council gives its opinion on all proposals and all bills of law, of ordinances and of decrees as well as on all measures necessary for economic, social, cultural and environmental development of the Republic, which are submitted to it.
It may be given the charge of any study of economic, social, cultural and environmental order.
It sees to the harmonious development and equilibrium of all the regions of the Republic.
Article 132
Before the entry into [their] functions, the members of the Economic and Social Council make, each in [regard] to what concerns him, a written declaration of [their] patrimony, deposited at the Office of the Constitutional Court, which renders it public within eight (8) working days.
Within the thirty (30) days preceding the cessation of their functions, the members of the Economic and Social Council renew, each in [regard] to what concerns him, the written declaration of their patrimony within the conditions specified in the paragraph above.
An organic law determines the organization, the functioning, [and] the mode of designation of the members of the Economic and Social Council, as well as the duration of their functions.
