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A new mission of evaluation of MCV between 14-16 March
A delegation of the mission for evaluation of the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification (MCV) will come to Bucharest between 14-16 March, the minister of justice Tudorel Toader asking the Deputies’ chamber information regarding the laws of justice.
‘On 14-16 March there will come a delegation for the MCV evaluation. The request of minister Tudorel Toader is that by 1 March the Parliament gives him some information. The role of the Standing Office is to send to the Judicial commission and the commission will answer to the minister of justice in due time’ the secretary of the Standing office of the deputies’ chamber Georgian Pop said.
According to the letter, the minister of justice Tudorel Toader required the Deputies’ chamber the ‘ appropriate preparation of the mission of evaluation’ the progress obtained by the Deputies’ chamber between September 2017 – February 2018, structured according to the recommendations of the MCV report published on 15 November 2017.
‘Taking into consideration the fact that the laws of justice and the amendments to the criminal code and the criminal procedure code represent one of the issues at this moment for the evaluation by the commission of the sustainability and irreversibility of the progress obtained in MCV with a view to ensuring a unitary position of the parliament and the government, I address the request to send information with regards to the development of the legislative process, including aspects referring to the participation to debates, debate transparency, formulation and implementation of the amendments by the political parties, the Superior Council of Magistrates and professional associations of magistrates, the perspective of the legislative process regarding the laws of justice, when considering the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Romania, as well as the perspective of the amendments of the criminal code and the criminal procedure code assuring on one hand the harmonisation of the criminal legislation with the CCR decisions and the transposition of the European directives, on the other hand the continuation of the fight against corruption’ the letter of the minister of justice reads.
At the end of January 2018 Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of the European Commission stated after the meeting with president Klaus Iohannis tha the rule of law functions and he is well informed about what is happening in Romania but if the laws are as they have been changed by the parliament the discussions about MCV and Schengen might change as well.