Chairman of the Upper Council of the Magistrates (CSM) Virgil Andreies on Tuesday called on the prosecutors and judges due to retire to stay in the judicial system. 'I ask the Romanian prosecutors and judges to stay in the judicial system and show the same faithfulness they have showed in 25 or 30 years of activity.
I want to tell you there is at present sufficient assurance from the Romanian authorities, from the other institutions of the state of law that the salary status and pensioning rules will not change this year', the CSM head told the public radio station.
Andreies sought to send a message to the magistrates having reached the retirement age not to do so, especially since an increasing number of judges and prosecutors in the last months have been asking the CSM to be released from their positions by pensioning off, which makes the crisis in the justice system very serious.
'If such magistrates on whom I have called to stay chose to leave immediately, we risk blocking the system. This is why I had to deliver this message on the one hand, while on the other I must say we need those magistrates in the system, since they are aged 50-55 years old, i.e. an age when a magistrate in the West reaches the peak of his/her efficiency', Andreies stressed.
The CSM chairman pointed out the justice reform should have begun in 1990, by adopting new civil and penal codes. 'We need the four codes, but we need good codes. Romania got most of its sentences at the ECHR on the Convention's article 6, which targets the settlement of litigations in reasonable time. So I ask you: how can the judges settle a case in reasonable time when they judge by a civil procedure that is 130 years old and a criminal procedure code from 1968?', he said.
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