The Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM) issued on Tuesday a negative opinion regarding the emergency ordinance draft amending some provisions of OUG No.7/2019, officials with CSM told AGERPRES.
At the plenary session, judge Mariana Ghena specified that Committee 1 of CSM decided to express a no vote.
"The result of Committee 1, by unanimity: a no vote was expressed in the committee meeting on OUG 7/2019, given that the proposals made in the last ordinance did not take into account the proposals expressed by CSM, which were outlined in a mandate given to the president of CSM to be expressed by the latter in the sense of repealing the texts over what CSM has proposed," Ghena mentioned.
The Ministry of Justice has publicly debated the draft Emergency Ordinance amending the provisions of OUG 7/2019.
According to the preamble to the draft, the changes are necessary as a result of the "negative reactions regarding certain legislative solutions" contained in OUG 7/2019 and "noting that at present these complaints of members of the magistrates' body affect the optimal functioning of courts and prosecutors' offices attached to them and generate the danger of dividing society."
"These reactions particularly focus on the intervention carried out in the matter of the delegation of prosecutors to the leading positions with the prosecutors' offices for which the nomination is conducted by the President of Romania, (...) the legislative amendment which gave the judges the possibility to run and to be appointed to the highest leadership positions within the Prosecutors' Office, in the latter case an impairment of the status and independence of the judges being claimed," the draft amendment of OUG 7/2019 shows.
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