A complaint was received urging the Ombudsman to seize the Constitutional Court for the control of unconstitutionality by omission, in view of the absence of legislation on residents’ organisations, which are foreseen in Chapter V, Title VIII (“Local Government”), of the Constitution’s Part relating to the “Organisation of political power” (Articles 263 to 265 of the Fundamental Law). The Constitution provides for the existence of residents’ organisations in order to raise participation of the population in local administrative life and, accordingly, outlines a characterisation of their composition and structure, as well as of the activity that those communities are intended to exercise. However, mentions in legislation relating to residents’ organisation are extremely sparse. Such an omission of legislation lead to the conclusion that it was in breach of the Constitution, as the latter requires the adoption of legislative measures clearly targeted at the setting of these associative entities and that are required to make executable the constitutional status sought for them. In this framework, underlining the need to overcome this lack of legislation and in alternative to the seizure of the Constitutional Court, another mode of intervention was deemed as more adequate by the Ombudsman, thus addressing a Recommendation to the Parliament instead. In this initiative, besides emphasising the constitutional command to legislate, the Ombudsman also laid emphasis on the renewed importance of residents’ organisations in the framework of the recent territorial administrative reorganisation (which resulted in the extinction of many civil parishes by aggregation), so as to ensure continuity in the representation of the specific interests of those populations that, along with others, are placed under the umbrella of a joint local authority since then. Therefore, the Ombudsman recommended to the Parliament to ensure the drawing up and the adoption of the legal framework relating to residents’ organisations, including the establishment of their structure and the definition of the their competences, necessary to give practical effect to the rules of the Constitution on the matter. • b) Requests for constitutionality review Case Q-4100/15 Entity addressed: Parliament Date: 2016/03/18 Subject: Judiciary System Organisation Act; powers of the Superior Council of the Judiciary; Right to be heard by a court or tribunal established in accordance with the law Status: Pending | 153