justice

Context: The Joint Special Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate for the systematization, unification and ensuring legislative stability in the field of justice (the “Iordache Committee”) announced on December 13th, that, although initially it was to suspend works during 14-16 December for the national mourning, it will work at least during 14 December to transpose EU Directive 2016/343 into the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code. The very title of the legislative proposal reveals its purpose to transpose the European Directive into the national law. The Committee President, Florin Iordache, accused by the opposition to have proposed amendments to the criminal codes that go beyond the framework for transposing the Directive, said today about the proposed amendments: “They do not go beyond the framework of…