The MPs on July 3 adopted the strategy for reforming the prosecution service and are to later amend and pass laws based on this strategy, IPN reports.
Under the strategy, the prosecutor general will be named to post by the head of state, at the proposal of the Supreme Council of Magistrates. The candidate will be selected at an open contest designed for prosecutors and other persons who meet the criteria. The prosecutor general will be named for a seven-year period and will not be reelected. Now the prosecutor general is elected by Parliament, at the suggestion of the Speaker, without a contest. The procedure for dismissing the prosecutor will be similar to the appointment procedure.
The prosecution service and the Supreme Council of Magistrates will have separate budgets. The budget of the prosecution service will depend on performance, i.e. money will be allocated from the centralized budget depending on the work volume of every prosecutor’s office, the number of prosecutors and the complexity of the investigated cases.
The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime will be kept, while the Military Prosecutor’s Office and the Transport Prosecutor’s Office will be liquidated owing to their reduced workload. Their duties will be taken over by the sector prosecutor’s offices.
There will be instituted the post of secretary of the Prosecutor General’s Office who will deal with management and logistic problems and will have the status of public servant.
The reform of the prosecution service forms part of the justice sector reform.
