Key Institutions Report final 15 December 2011 - Unmit

2.11. MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURES MINISTÉRIO DAS INFRA-ESTRUTURAS
“The Ministry of Infrastructures is the central Government body responsible for the design,
execution, coordination and assessment of the policy defined and approved by the Council of
Ministers for the areas of civil works, urban planning, water and power supply, civil land, sea
and air transportation, auxiliary communications services, including postal, telegraphic and
telephone services, as well as the other telecommunications, use of the radio electric spectrum,
meteorological services and computers (…)”
Source: Article 28 of the Decree-Law 07/2007 of 5 September 2007 Approving the Organic Structure of the
IV Constitutional Government, amended by Decree-laws 05/2008, 26/2008, 37/2008, 14/2009, 11/2010
and 15/2010
Pedro Lay José Manuel
Carrascalão
INSTITUTION ESTABLISHED BY
Decree-law 07/2007 of 5 September 2007 approving the Organic Structure of the IV
Constitutional Government, amended by Decree-laws 5/2008, 26/2008, 37/2008, 14/2009,
11/2010 and 15/2010
OTHER LEGAL REFERENCES
Presidential Decree 77/2007 of 8 August 2007 nominating the Minister of Infrastructures,
Pedro Lay
Presidential Decree 04/2009 of 5 March 2009 nominating the Deputy Minister of
Infrastructures, José Manuel Carrascalão
Decree-Law 01/2011 of 19 January 2011 approving the Organic Structure of the Ministry of
Infrastructure
MINISTER OF INFRASTRUCTURES
Pedro Lay
APPOINTED ON APPOINTED BY 97
8 August 2007 José Manuel Ramos-Horta, President of the
Republic
DEPUTY MINISTER OF INFRASTRUCTURES
José Manuel Carrascalão
97 “The remaining members of the Government shall be appointed by the President of the Republic
following proposal by the Prime-Minister” (Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Section
106, 2)