Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

The CCEA is constituted under the Rules of Business 1996 -- no separate statutory act; established_year set to 1996 as the first formal codification under that instrument. The committee has no fixed permanent membership roster: the Finance Minister chairs, senior cabinet ministers are core members, and the minister responsible for the proposing ministry joins as an additional member for that agenda item (consistent with Banglapedia description and the tob.news reconstitution report). Secretarial services are provided by the Cabinet Division. CCEA decisions, once approved by the Prime Minister, have the force of a Cabinet decision and require no separate Cabinet ratification. The 13-meeting count (through 7 May 2026) over approximately 10 weeks reflects high activity driven by energy supply urgency (Middle East war, domestic fuel shortages) and the offshore energy reform agenda. entity_type is set to 'parliamentary_committee' per schema (closest available type -- CCEA is technically a Cabinet committee, not a parliamentary committee in the Westminster sense, but the schema's Literal type does not include 'cabinet_committee'). Foreign loan endorsements: no CCEA-specific foreign loan approval was documented in the 90-day window; such approvals typically flow through ECNEC or the Ministry of Finance/ERD pipeline; the closest action was the Finance Minister-chaired meeting on 27 April 2026 at the Ministry of Finance to repurpose $1.135 billion in WB/AIIB loans, but this was not a formal CCEA meeting. Activity evidence hold: removed 3 exact generated refresh event(s) on read. Generated scores, positions, activity actions and verification stamps are unavailable. Retained events and unmatched action text require source review; original raw records are unchanged.