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The story of one of the most controversial
structures in the Romanian judiciary is coming to an end these days. The
government in Bucharest on Monday endorsed a draft law on dismantling the
special Section for the Investigation of the Judiciary, known in Romania as
SIIJ. The head of the coalition government, Liberal Nicolae Ciucă, has recalled
that this is an objective Romania has also assumed within the Cooperation and
Verification Mechanism (CVM) through which Brussels has been monitoring the
rule of law in Romania ever since the country s entry into the European Union
in 2007.
Under the new amendments, other structures
have been authorized to take over the SIIJ files and their resolutions are to
be made public within 60 days since the law has come into effect, by the
Prosecutor s Office with the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the other
the competent offices, which are carrying on work on the aforementioned files.
High-ranking prosecutors an