Romanian High Council Of Magistrates To Appoint Chief Prosecutors, Not President

Senators in the commission adopted seven to two votes the amendment to the law regulating the statue of magistrates, setting that chief prosecutors are to be appointed by the High Council of Magistrates in plenary meeting, at the proposal of the justice minister and with the approval of the Council’s prosecution department.

Chief prosecutors of the Anticorruption Department (DNA), General Prosecutors’ Office and Department for Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) will be appointed for periods of three years and may be reinvested on time alone.