The participants in the working meeting centering on the draft law on the prosecution service agreed the procedures for selecting, appointing and dismissing the chief prosecutor of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, including his deputies, and the method of organizing their work and remunerating them, IPN reports.
After the meeting, Head of Parliament Andrian Candu said that owing to the efforts made by foreign experts and the authors of the bill and based on the appraisal of the Venice Commission, they managed to identity solutions to all the problems highlighted by the representatives of the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia.
Under the new provisions, which were adjusted to the special legal status of Gagauzia, the chief prosecutor of the autonomous unit will be selected at a public contest staged by the Supreme Council of Prosecutors, according to the legal procedures, together with the People’s Assembly, which will afterward propose the selected candidate to the prosecutor general for confirmation. Also, the chief prosecutor will be dismissed in accordance with the general procedures, while his salary will be equal to that of the prosecutors of the municipality of Chisinau and Balti.
The bill on the prosecution service, which was passed by Parliament in the first reading on May 29, forms part of authorities’ efforts to build an efficient, independent, transparent, professional and responsible justice sector, which would meet the European standards, through the justice sector reform strategy for 2011-2016.
The bill is to be complemented and submitted to the parliamentary commissions for examination.
