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SARAJEVO, October 4 (FENA) - President of the Center for Public Law Foundation (FCJP) professor Edin Šarčević, PhD, said today that the key to improving the situation in the BiH judiciary lies in the regulation of the system of selection, appointment, composition and functioning of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH (HJPC BiH).
“The most acute topic, but also not the only condition for improving the situation in the judiciary, is the selection, composition and the work of the HJPC BiH,” Šarčević said ahead of a roundtable on the role of the Judicial and Prosecutorial Association in judicial reform organized by the FCJP in Sarajevo.
Commenting on journalists’ inquiries regarding basic preconditions for improving the situation in the BiH justice system, president of the FCJP recalled that the HJPC BiH is a regulatory/self-regulatory body "which has shown in the last two years that it has not lived up to the standards placed upon it."
“Ever since Milan Tegeltija took over the HJPC, there has been a noticeable drop in the standard of trial proceedings, prosecutions, in the selection of judges and their appointment to a number of positions that they do not deserve,” underlined Šarčević.
In this context, he recalled the most recent events, the bribery affair, and the case of incompatibility, or the conflict of interest of the HJPC member Monika Mijić and her nomination for the FBiH Constitutional Court judge.
“The way in which the HJPC has responded to all of this and the voting itself, in fact, points to the fact that this is a body which, firstly, is incapable of meeting its own requirements, given the moral and professional aspects of the responsibilities they are ought to protect. In my opinion, this is a body that needs to be quickly replaced,” stressed Šarčević.
In a broader context, he also referred to a number of issues/priorities concerning the new law on HJPC, possible separation into two Chambers, one for judges and the other for prosecutors, and issues related to the competencies of the HJPC itself, lack of responsibility of the president of that body, as well as the most recent appointments of judges in BiH, including the segment of the evaluation of judges, etc.
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