The Executive Council also approved an overview provided of the transfer of legislation by the Netherlands Antilles to the new ministry as well as the terms of the required legislation, Central Government tasks, policy, work instructions and procedures per department of the new ministry.
The Council of Ministers of the Netherlands Antilles is being requested to transfer the responsibility for the legislation to the Executive Council of St. Maarten as per July 1, 2010.
Another request being made to the Council of Ministers is that transfer of the respective budgets and incomes to the Executive Council of St. Maarten takes place.
St. Maarten's Executive Council additionally decided to request the Antillean government to immediately make available personnel of the various dependencies on St. Maarten to the Executive Council.
A workgroup of the sector Economy and Tourism has, meanwhile, been working diligently to complete the preparations for the transfer of tasks of the Netherlands Antilles to the island territory of St. Maarten.
The sector has chosen for a pragmatic approach to the transfer of tasks, taking into consideration, among others, lack of budget and human resources.
The approach calls for, among others, service lending agreements.