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| The Romanian Justice and European regulations |
| (2012-09-21) |
| Last updated: 2012-09-24 13:55 EET |
Within three weeks at the most, Romania’s Parliament will pass, through an emergency procedure, the four codes of the justice system – the criminal and civil codes and the codes of criminal and civil procedure. The decision was made after the Justice Minister Mona Pivniceru proposed the Legislature to amend several laws designed to improve the activity of the magistrates and reduce the number of cases in court.
The Romanian Justice Minister believes these measures will really ease the magistrates’ work burden and shorten the time in certain trials. These amendments are part of the strategy for the reform of the Judiciary as required by the European Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification. Here is Justice minister Mona Pivniceru.
Mona Pivniceru: “Magistrates are currently working on more than one million cases out of a total three million registered last year, which is an absolutely huge amount of work.”
In turn, Prime Minister Ponta has underlined the need for these legislative amendments, aimed not only at meeting the obligations stipulated in the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification, but also at rendering the act of justice more credible and more in the citizens’ interests.
Victor Ponta: “Our main obligation – I mean ours, Parliament and the Government – is towards the citizens, who are direct beneficiaries of this acts of justice. Of course the provisions of the mechanism for Cooperation and Verification are part of what the justice system means as a whole.”
The head of the government in Bucharest said he wished a good report on the implementation of the requirements stipulated in the Mechanism, but what he wanted the most was for Romanians to be pleased with the country’s legal system. The Prime Minister said the great challenge for any government was not the Mechanism report but how to make any Romanian believe that if they have any judicial problem of any nature, civil, commercial or penal, they can go to court and, within a year or two, they get a final ruling or that a justice who gives a bad sentence will not be above the law anymore.
The European Commission is to present in December a fresh report on Romania’s legal system and the rule of law. Some European countries are waiting for these conclusions to decide whether Romania should be accepted into Europe’s free-border area, Schengen. In another development, a survey conducted by the Council of Europe shows the justice took a double battering from the economic downturn, as budgets for legal systems in some countries have seen severe cuts, concurrently with a rise in the number of social and economic cases. However the present tendency is to allot more money to legal systems across Europe.
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