The recommendation was made at the 2019 ERCA Activity Report review meeting, by the first, fourth, fifth and seventh parliamentary specialty committees.
The joint opinion report, in addition to the above recommendation, also calls for ERCA to benefit from resources for the acquisition of goods, services and equipment to fulfill its competences and to continue to monitor the media activity at provincial level, with verification visits and lectures and colloquiums on the rigor of journalistic information and the due clarification on its activity.
The regulatory body was also recommended to estimate the media and establish rules of compliance with the technical standards for the exercise of journalism and professional ethics and deontology, especially if it does not refer to public activity, and should have a fiscal or fiscal effect. stipulated in the Constitution and the Advertising Law.
"That ERCA recommends to the media and diversify, as its sources of financing, to save its independence from economic, political and religious powers", also recommends the National Assembly.
Speaking to the press, the president of ERCA, Adelino de Almeida, said that he does not oppose the request for authorization, the inspection reports of Angolan journalistic activity should be added to the financial execution report.
However, during the debate, the chairman of the commission, Tomás da Silva, clarified that the inspection of the National Assembly mainly affects the activities of the institutions subject to parliamentary inspection, while the accounting control is done by the Court of Auditors, so it should not be done "finca-pé" in that sense.
Adelino de Almeida stressed that, like any public institution, ERCA received an endowment from the State, which was insufficient to carry out its activities.
"It was also clarified that our endowment is part of the budgetary endowment of the National Assembly, it was the occurrence until now with ERCA and the Providence of Justice", he said, adding that it stopped being so for the Ombudsman, continuing a ERCA linked to parliament.
According to Adelino de Almeida, in 2019, a budget allocation was "absolutely insufficient", "so, until now, it is not possible to install the press analysis and supervision department, which prevents a systematic analysis of the media, not only in Luanda, as in the whole country ".
Regarding the monitoring of capital journalistic activity, Adelino de Almeida said that this year, due to a covid-19 pandemic, it will no longer be a "big deal", but the commitment, which is part of the activity plan, is regular visits to all the provinces, to feel "the pulse of the press".
During the discussion, several criticisms and interpretations were made to the behavior of the press, which Adelino de Almeida considered "understandable".
In last year's report, the president of ERCA highlighted how visits were made to the whole country, especially in the context of the preparation of the General Assembly of Journalists, which led to an ethics and ethics committee and the code of conduct.
