The parliamentary council’s legislative activity consisted in the following:
A- The government submitted 153 draft laws, 131 of which were approved by the council:
- 84 draft laws related to legislative fields
- 6 financial laws
- the three-year and five-year plan laws
- 37 international and bilateral agreements B- Parliamentary groups submitted the following: A total of 94 law proposals, of which the parliamentary council approved only 14. The groups also submitted a total of 149 petitions, of which the council welcomed only 35. It can be noted that the parliament’s effectiveness in the legislative field, when compared to that of previous parliamentary experiences, began increasing, which becomes evident through many examples of legislation.

Following are some examples: Draft laws on amending and completing the regulation of a maritime hunting law, the debt condition law, the founding of universities law, the wage system, the founding of the Higher Council for Accounts, regulating the syndicate of lawyers practicing the law profession, altering and completing the by-laws of agricultural chambers and a law for organizing the Center for Renewed Powers’ Development, a law related to industrial investments, encouraging tourist and marine investment, and a law that sets a framework for tax reform…

The above are examples of the legislative achievements made by the government in addition to the bilateral or international agreements.

As for the parliament’s accomplishments regarding law proposals submitted by parliament members, these are few and almost not worthy of mention. Most of the important proposals were frozen in committees or disregarded…

This is with regard to the third parliamentary experience. As for the fourth, its yield was as follows:

• The government submitted 74 draft laws.
• Parliament members submitted 46 draft laws, of which the council approved only 4.
• The council approved 67 petitions submitted by its members.
• The government submitted 2 proposals: the course plan and the fiscal plan.
• An exceptional meeting was held to discuss draft laws on amending the 8 investment laws issued in the beginning of 1973.

Thus, we find that there are texts of a financial, economic, or scientific nature submitted by the government and approved by the council. Among these were the following:

A department for the use of ports, the founding of the national center for Nuclear Power and Sciences and the two laws for encouraging real estate and mining investments, private education, the value-added tax law, reorganizing the department of marketing and exportation and the founding of the independent institution for supervising and coordinating export activities, and amending Chapter 85 on government employment.

Laws of a regulatory or social nature, such as the guarantee law, the law of the by-laws of private education, etc.

As for law proposals, the council approved a very limited number. Among these was a proposal for assigning a retirement scholarship for parliament members and another proposal on the social guarantee law. The council rejected many important law proposals such as: that eliminating ordinance 35 on the ban of demonstrations, a proposal on the declaration of properties, a proposal on the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, a proposal on arabizing administration and public life, and a proposal on considering Friday a holiday .

It becomes crystal clear that the Moroccan parliament’s legislative performance in three successive sessions reflected a form of oscillation and low effectiveness in the legislative activity field whether quantitatively or qualitatively, in addition to the government’s clear control over legislative work, a matter to which we will return with some focus in discussing the Moroccan parliament’s legislative yield.