The governing coalition, which met on Friday morning, decided that the justice laws would be amended by a legislative initiative that the PSD-ALDE MPs will take responsibility for.

The MPs would no longer wait for the Government to approve the package and only then send it to the Parliament for debate, reports local Europafm.ro. The Parliament should adopt the amendments to the laws of justice by the end of this year, the coalition decided.

Prime Minister Mihai Tudose also said on Monday that the laws of justice should be sent directly to Parliament for consultations and debates in committees. The coalition’s political agreement is also needed, he added.

Justice minister Tudorel Toader said on Sunday that there were three options for the Judicial Inspection, but there is little chance that the institution will stay within the Supreme Council of Magistracy.

In August, Tudorel Toader announced a series of amendments to the current justice laws, which were deemed controversial by the civil society and the Romanian president.  A significant amendment was the transfer of the Judicial Inspection from CSM to the Justice Ministry. The Judicial Inspection investigates the disciplinary misconduct of magistrates and sends sanction proposals to the CSM.

More than 3,500 judges and prosecutors in Romania have signed a statement asking the Government to withdraw the draft project aimed at changing the justice laws.

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