The election of advisers to the Constitutional Court (SC) in the Government, which represents the executive power, casts a shadow over the independence of that court, established by the Constitution.
This was stated in the report from the consultative hearing of the President of the United States Milorad Gogić and the Minister of Justice Andrej Milović on the initiative to amend the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees.
The report was adopted today at the session of the parliamentary Constitutional Committee, while the hearing was held last week.
The changes refer to the manner, procedure and selection of advisers working in the Constitutional Court.
"The initiator of the initiative, the US, that is, its president, pointed out that there are serious problems and serious consequences of the current legal way in which the method of electing advisers working in the US is conceived," said at today's session the president of the board, Simonida Kordić (New Serbian Democracy). .
As she pointed out, in the last convocation of the board there were also criticisms of the work of the US, in terms of the speed of processing cases, the number of backlogged cases and backlogged constitutional appeals.
"Part of the cause that caused this problem is that the court, although it has enough systematized positions for constitutional court advisors, does not have enough employees. One of the reasons, in addition to the financial one, is that the US does not choose its own advisors," Kordić said. adding that advisers are elected as officers and employees in any department of state administration and state administration - in the Government, from the personnel commission.
US President Gogić assessed last week at the session that this process is very slow and that the issue of competence for choosing such a specific profession is raised.
"The essence of the initiative is to amend the Law on Civil Servants and Employees in a similar way as it was done for the Assembly, which is exempt from the general principle of electing advisors through the Government Commission, and to apply a similar or the same principle to the US," she concluded. Kordic.
The report was adopted by the votes of the majority of the board members. The only deputy who did not vote was Nermin Abdić (Democratic Party of Socialists), because, as he said, he was not present at the hearing of Gogić and Milović due to professional obligations.
No ongoing issues were proposed at the session, and Kordić noted that the work plan for this year and the work report for the previous year will be discussed at one of the following sessions.
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