Por tvyumuri 
Two draft laws provided for in the Legislative Schedule – the General Contravention Regime and the Civil Registry – are available for the process of specialized consultation with various institutions in the country, academics, national and foreign experts, as well as with the public in order to obtain a higher quality proposal.
The General Contravention Regime aims to establish the provisions to sanction conduct considered contraventions due to their low social harm.
Its provisions, points out the website of the Ministry of Justice (Minjus), apply to all contravention regimes established in regulations, sectoral areas of public administration; and allows its updating in accordance with the general postulates it establishes, in order to guarantee uniformity, better coherence in its regulation, greater general knowledge on the subject and the consequent legal security.
This draft law, it is argued, is consistent with the Constitution of the Republic, which in its Article 90 endorses the responsibility of citizens in the exercise of the rights and freedoms provided for therein, and establishes, among others, the duty of Cuban citizens to comply with the Constitution and other legal norms.
The Minjus enabled a channel for interested parties to issue criteria, considerations or recommendations through the email contravenciones@minjus.gob.cu
On the other hand, the legislative change in the area of Civil Registry responds to the need to temper it with the development of constitutional, personal and family rights that were introduced or modified in the last five years in Cuba, thus increasing the catalogue of facts, acts and circumstances with registry effects to promote preventive legal security.
They emphasize that the current Law No. 51 on the Civil Registry dates back to 1985, which is why it needs a regulatory update, due to the approval of other legal norms, such as the Family Code, and the use of new information and communication technologies impose the obligation of a legislative change in this matter.
According to the Minjus, the new draft of the Civil Registry defends the right contained in Article 97 of the Constitution of the Republic, which recognizes the right of people to protect their personal data in records, files, databases and information that have a public nature, as well as to request their non-disclosure and to acquire their due correction, rectification, modification, update or cancellation.
The criteria, considerations and recommendations about this can be sent by email to registrocivil@minjus.gob.cu.
Translated by Casterman Medina de Leon