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The National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) on Wednesday voiced concern with respect to the modality of adoption and content of the emergency ordinance modifying the three Justice laws.
"Related to the emergency ordinance modifying the three Justice laws approved several months ago by Parliament, the DNA is concerned with both the hasty adoption of the normative act and also its content and drew attention that it will block this institution's activity. The draft normative act wasn't discussed with the representatives of the magistrates, while the fact that the ordinance was submitted to the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) on the same day of its adoption by the Government shows a total lack of interest for having an honest dialogue between powers with respect to provisions of such a great importance, which will significantly affect the functioning of the judicial authority," reads a release of the DNA sent to AGERPRES.
Also, DNA did not receive an official version of the adopted normative act, with the above comments being made based on the versions presented by the media.
The authority also specified that forbidding mandates in the case of the management jobs will block the DNA activity and it will make it impossible for this authority to exercise its legal duties, considering that the prosecutors heads of department will no longer have the possibility of verifying the indictments and they won't be able to charge those who commit illegalities. A concrete example is represented by the Section for combating corruption and the Judicial Section of the DNA, which remain without chief prosecutors once the current mandates expire on March 20.
DNA also mentioned the newly created possibility for the magistrates who no longer meet the good reputation criteria to be released from office, while there are no guarantees related to how the CSM sections are going to deal with this task and while the independence of magistrates is compromised, for they could easily be put under a lot of pressure.
