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Venice Commission expected today to pronounce on laws amended by Romanian government
Venice Commission has on the agenda of the plenary meeting on Friday, the adoption of two opinions about Justice in Romania, the preliminary one referring to the Laws of Justice and one about penal codes. The debate will be also attended by the social-democrat deputy Florin Iordache.
“The European Commission for Democracy and Law (Venice Commission) is expected to adopt an opinion about the amendments made to the Penal Code and Penal Procedure Code in Romania,” shows a press release of the Council of Europe, posted on the website of the institution, referring to the plenary session of October 19.
The plenum of the commission is also expected to approve the preliminary opinion published in July about amendments made to the laws of justice. Venice Commission is invited to approve the preliminary document to the amendments to law 303/2004 about the statute of judges and prosecutors, to law 304/2004 about judicial organization and law 317/2004 about the Higher Magistracy council (which has already made public).
“In case an emergency government order by which certain recommendations formulated in the preliminary approval was issued, Venice Commission might be invited to adopt another approval with some amendments,” the Commission websites shows.
The president of the special parliamentary commission for the laws of justice, Florin Iordache, declared on Sunday that he would participate in the Commission meeting.
“The October session of the Commission is on the 19th and 20th and I will be there to present a point of view about the preliminary opinion,” Iordache declared.
Tudorel Toader, the minister of justice, who is also a member of Venice Commission, had several recent meetings with members of the commission.
The government emergency order (OUG)on the amendment of the laws of justice was approved on Monday by the Executive and published in the Official Monitor on Tuesday.