The judges to blame for the convictions of Moldova by the European Court of Human Rights will cover the done damage. The MPs gave a final reading to a bill that institutes the state’s right to exercise the action in regress against judges whose action or inaction contributed to Moldova’s conviction by the ECHR, IPN reports.

Under the bill, the judges will bear responsibility proportional to the level of guilt set in the action in regress. The judges will be held criminally or disciplinarily accountable only for cases when their blame is determined by a definite sentence or when the intention or serious negligence is ascertained within disciplinary proceedings.

The prosecutors will also be penalized, with the statute of limitations being a year of the date the national or international court judgment becomes irrevocable, but not later than five years of the commission of the deviation.

“The ECHR sent an opinion to the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, underlining the importance and necessity of regulating the mechanism for exercising the action in regress by a comprehensive normative framework,” says the informative note to the bill.