It is expected to fill in the gaps existing in the RA legislation and non-complete regulations by the adoption of the drafts, aiming at raising the effectiveness of the activities of the RA Prosecutor’s Office.

 

The legislative initiative on making additions to the RA Criminal Procedure Code and on Making Amendments and Additions to the Law on Prosecutor’s Office was debated in the first reading at the sitting of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs on February 2.

 

The RA Deputy Minister of Justice Levon Balyan informed that the launch of the initiative is conditioned by the necessity of emerged misreading and inner contradictions in practice.

 

 It is envisaged by the project to remove the rector of the Academy of Justice from the Qualification Committee adjacent to the Prosecutor General, because it may result in the situations of conflict of interest, taking into consideration the fact that they participate in the compilation of the list of prosecutors and their attestation processes. 

 

They also suggest supplementing the RA Criminal Procedure Code with new articles, pursuant to which, where necessary a group of prosecutors may be formed based on the assignment of the supervising prosecutor.  

 

The Head of the Prosecutors’ Group organizes the work of the Prosecutors’ Group and coordinates other prosecutors’ actions.

 

It is expected that by the adoption of the drafts the frameworks of the powers of the Head of the Prosecutors’ Group and the members will also be distinctly demarcated.

 

Afterwards, Anahit Manasyan, the RA Deputy Prosecutor General presented the problems emerged in the legal practice and clarified the need of the adoption of the amendments and additions.

 

The deputies voiced a number of issues, proposals and remarks, which will be addressed by the authors of the initiative during the period from the first to the second reading.

 

The Committee gave an affirmative summary the legislative initiative.