The district workers' councils and the National Workers' Council meet together with the representatives of the employers and with other interested classes of people in district economic councils and in a National Economic Council for the purpose of performing joint economic tasks and co-operating in the execution of the laws of socialization. The district economic councils and the National Economic Council shall be so constituted that all substantial vocational groups are represented therein according to their economic and social importance.
Drafts of laws of fundamental importance relating to social and economic policy before introduction [into the National Assembly] shall be submitted by the National Cabinet to the National Economic Council for consideration. The National Economic Council has the right itself to propose such measures for enactment into law. If the National Cabinet does not approve them, it shall, nevertheless, introduce them into the National Assembly together with a statement of its own position. The National Economic Council may have its bill presented by one of its own members before the National Assembly.
Supervisory and administrative functions may be delegated to the workers' councils and to the economic councils within their respective areas.
The regulation of the organization and duties of the workers' councils and of the economic councils, as well as their relation to other social bodies endowed with administrative autonomy, is exclusively a function of the Commonwealth.
TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 166
Until the establishment of the National Administrative Court, the National Judicial Court takes its place in the organization of the Electoral Commission.
ARTICLE 167
The provisions of Article 18, Paragraphs 3 to 6, become effective two years after the promulgation of the national Constitution.