Egypt's parliament approved on Tuesday its new internal bylaws that will regulate the conduct of MPs over the next five years. Over the past three months, since parliament's first session, the proceedings were regulated by the 1979 bylaws. Bahaaeddin Abu Shoqa, the Wafd Party MP and chairman of the committee that drafted the bylaws, said a six-member committee will be created to put the new bylaws in their final form, a necessary step ahead of referring the bylaws to the State Council to revise them. MPs decided that the total number of parliament's committees would be 25 rather than 28. (ahramonline)