The justice legislation package should be ready for submission to the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) on May 2, so that the council may see it once again, and after okaying it, the package will be submitted to Government and Parliament for approval, Justice Ministry told an April 25 meeting of the Senate's Judiciary Committee.
Committee chairman Serban Nicolae asked Toader to present the latest developments in the proposals from the Justice Ministry amending Law 303/2004 concerning the statutes of judges and prosecutors ahead of the resumption of parliamentary debates on this topic one week later.
"Parliament is considering five bills, all concerning justice. I have kept count of all of them put up for discussion and adopted independently from what we are putting forth. One piece is emergency ordinance OUG 46/2008 [amending Article 33 on Law 303/2004 concerning the statutes of judges and prosecutors] that would have allowed joining the magistracy after 18 years of seniority by just an interview," said Toader.
He added that work was being done on a justice legislation package, mentioning that former Justice Minister Florin Iordache actually dusted off a two-year old bill.
"We are working on a justice legislation package; as I have publicly stated in other settings as well, the package comes from the previous years, as Mr Minister Iordache reactivated it for new debates this January and submitted it to CSM for an opinion because two years had passed since the bill was initiated for a different body, a CSM component. Mr Minister Iordache submitted the bill to CSM and Justice Ministry this January, and he received proposals and observations from CSM only yesterday, that is three months after the fact. We are working full speed now to upgrade by taking over the solutions and proposals we find viable,"said Toader.
He went on to say that the bill will most likely be ready on May 2 for submission to CSM for a final review, after which the package should be forwarded to the Government and Parliament.
"I have talked to my colleagues as well and we will probably come up with a final version by Friday, we do not have to submit it for decisional transparency and public debate because the bill passed through all this in its initial form. But we will submit the final version to CSM so that it may see what we have taken over and what we have left out, which will happen most likely next week. We will all be busy next week with the assessment under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), but we hope CSM will find the time to consider the final version of the bill, which does not need to wait for 30 more days because it already followed decision-making transparency procedures. That means on Tuesday we submit the bill immediately to CSM and the day we get an opinion from it, we will forward it to the Government and to you ," Toader told an April 25 meeting of Senate's Judiciary Committee.
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