He reminds him that he has been waiting almost two years for his opinion on this law
MADRID, 20 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has asked the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to send her the report “as soon as possible” with its opinion on the preliminary bill for the reform of the Law of Criminal Procedure (LECrim), which the task of directing criminal investigations will be transferred to prosecutors.
According to Llop, the “only stumbling block” to continue the parliamentary processing of this law, which is “very complex”, is that “it has been pending” for “more than a year and a half” of the CGPJ report.
“It is essential that we address once and for all this new model of proceeding in criminal proceedings in our country,” Llop stressed today at an informative breakfast at the New Economy Forum and in the presence of the interim president of the CGPJ, Rafael Mozo.
Llop has indicated that the new regulations will put Spain at the level of other European countries, by modernizing criminal investigation and guaranteeing the “recognition” of the rights of victims.
“As a society becomes more sophisticated, its values ??also become more sophisticated. For this reason, the victims have a fundamental role and this change in the model of the investigation phase that will be assumed by the Prosecutor’s Office will solve many of the distortions that are produced in Spain regarding the functioning of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office”, described the minister, framing this initiative among the possible solutions to make Justice more efficient.
In February of this year, sources from the Ministry of Justice told Europa Press that the report of the governing body of the judges on this reform is important for the project to move forward.
The same sources indicated that they are aware that it is a “sensitive” subject with which false steps cannot be taken. From the CGPJ they pointed out that they had started working on it when the previous minister, Juan Carlos Campo, sent them the draft and that, at the insistence of Justice, they had reactivated the work.
The great novelty that the draft of the LECrim proposes is that it goes from the investigating judge to the investigating prosecutor and it will be the prosecutors who direct the investigation when the reform enters into force. That yes, with the punctual intervention of a judge of guarantees to authorize the measures that affect fundamental rights.
Justice created an Inter-institutional Working Group to review the draft of the LECrim, a decision that was adopted after the report of the Prosecutor’s Office was known, in which it was noted that it did not fully meet the needs of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
This group is made up of the CGPJ, the State Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of the Interior, the Council of Lawyers, university experts and the General Council of Attorneys.
