Legislative assessment in a pandemic year: the impact on the pharmaceutical industry
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:48 am
Historically, election years have a direct impact on the volume of proposals that are presented to the National Congress. This is because parliamentarians tend to dedicate less time to legislative activities and more time to campaign commitments. In 2016, the last year of the municipal campaign, 28,631 projects were presented, while in 2017, comparatively, 35,573 projects were submitted. This pattern was repeated in 2015, 2018 and 2019.
Between 2015 and 2019, we witnessed three electoral processes. From 2017 to 2018, for example, Congress productivity fell by 41.41%. This analysis takes into account the number of bills submitted. From last romania mobile database year to this year, the reduction in legislative initiatives was 36.98% . One point to note is that the “decline in productivity” is not necessarily a bad sign. Proposing more laws in a country with a very high volume of regulations with regulatory impact almost never contributes to improving social conditions, the business environment, and legal certainty.
In 2020, in addition to the municipal elections, the pandemic and the public health emergency situation also impacted the number of proposals presented in federal houses. The emergence of the new Coronavirus led to a large proliferation of legislative initiatives, from those that were quite serious and necessary to those that simply “surfed the wave” of the tragedy. Of all the subjects addressed, the five main themes of projects stand out in federal legislative proposals: “Coronavirus”, with more than 2,000 projects presented, “Public calamity” with 980, “Covid” with 703 and “ESPII”, which is the abbreviation for “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”, appearing 694 times.
In 2018, also an election year and still in the “old normal”, the most common terms were “Municipality”, “Brazil”, “Foreign Country”, “Inclusion” and “Destination”. As can be seen, the federal legislative proposals presented that year addressed more varied and broad themes, without highlighting a specific subject. The same pattern was repeated in 2016, a municipal election year, when the topics presented revolved around “Criteria”, “Inclusion”, “Foreign Country” and “Municipality”. That year, generic terms without a specific subject emerged as the most common themes in the day-to-day activities of parliament.
Between 2015 and 2019, we witnessed three electoral processes. From 2017 to 2018, for example, Congress productivity fell by 41.41%. This analysis takes into account the number of bills submitted. From last romania mobile database year to this year, the reduction in legislative initiatives was 36.98% . One point to note is that the “decline in productivity” is not necessarily a bad sign. Proposing more laws in a country with a very high volume of regulations with regulatory impact almost never contributes to improving social conditions, the business environment, and legal certainty.
In 2020, in addition to the municipal elections, the pandemic and the public health emergency situation also impacted the number of proposals presented in federal houses. The emergence of the new Coronavirus led to a large proliferation of legislative initiatives, from those that were quite serious and necessary to those that simply “surfed the wave” of the tragedy. Of all the subjects addressed, the five main themes of projects stand out in federal legislative proposals: “Coronavirus”, with more than 2,000 projects presented, “Public calamity” with 980, “Covid” with 703 and “ESPII”, which is the abbreviation for “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”, appearing 694 times.
In 2018, also an election year and still in the “old normal”, the most common terms were “Municipality”, “Brazil”, “Foreign Country”, “Inclusion” and “Destination”. As can be seen, the federal legislative proposals presented that year addressed more varied and broad themes, without highlighting a specific subject. The same pattern was repeated in 2016, a municipal election year, when the topics presented revolved around “Criteria”, “Inclusion”, “Foreign Country” and “Municipality”. That year, generic terms without a specific subject emerged as the most common themes in the day-to-day activities of parliament.