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Legal Affairs Committee to conduct hearing of candidates for members of the Supreme Judicial Council of the National Assembly quota at an open sitting to take place in the Parliamentary Chamber on 11 September 2011
11/09/2012
The Legal Affairs Committee will conduct hearing of the candidates for members of the Supreme Judicial Council of the National Assembly quota at an open sitting to be held in the Parliamentary Chamber on 11 September 2011. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and will be broadcast live on the Bulgarian National Television and in real time on the Internet through the specialized thematic webpage of the National Assembly Internet site.
To attend the sitting are invited the Prosecutor General Boris Velchev, the Chairpersons of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court Lazar Gruev and Georgi Kolev, the President of the Constitutional Court Evgeni Tanchev, Anelia Mingova to represent the Supreme Judicial Council, the Minister of Justice Diana Kovacheva and the Ombudsman of the Republic Konstantin Penchev. Invitations have been extended to the Ambassadors of the EU member-states and the US Ambassador, to the Head of the Representation of the European Commission to Bulgaria Zinaida Zlatanova and the EC Permanent Representative in charge of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism Yuri Tavernier, as well as to non-governmental organizations.
A total of 17 nominations for members of the Supreme Judicial Council have been submitted to the parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee. Pursuant to the verification of documents for admissibility, the Legal Affairs Committee has resolved to admit to hearing all nominated candidates.
At an open sitting to be held in the National Assembly Chamber, the Legal Affairs Committee shall hear the admitted candidates in alphabetical order of their forenames. All candidates shall be presented by their M.P. nominators. After that they shall make a personal presentation with an opportunity to add further particulars to their career records and to acquaint the Committee members with their concepts of work as members of the Supreme Judicial Council, within up to 10 minutes for each candidate.
The Committee members shall ask questions to the candidates, including on the basis of the observations received from not-for-profit legal entities registered for pursuit of public benefit activities, higher schools and research organizations. After all questions are posed, the respective candidate for member of the SJC shall be given an opportunity to answer within up to 3 minutes.
The Legal Affairs Committee shall draft a report on the hearing within three days after the conduct thereof. The report shall be put to the vote at a separate sitting of the Legal Affairs Committee and shall be submitted to the record-keeping department of the National Assembly not later than the 14th day of September 2012.
To attend the sitting are invited the Prosecutor General Boris Velchev, the Chairpersons of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court Lazar Gruev and Georgi Kolev, the President of the Constitutional Court Evgeni Tanchev, Anelia Mingova to represent the Supreme Judicial Council, the Minister of Justice Diana Kovacheva and the Ombudsman of the Republic Konstantin Penchev. Invitations have been extended to the Ambassadors of the EU member-states and the US Ambassador, to the Head of the Representation of the European Commission to Bulgaria Zinaida Zlatanova and the EC Permanent Representative in charge of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism Yuri Tavernier, as well as to non-governmental organizations.
A total of 17 nominations for members of the Supreme Judicial Council have been submitted to the parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee. Pursuant to the verification of documents for admissibility, the Legal Affairs Committee has resolved to admit to hearing all nominated candidates.
At an open sitting to be held in the National Assembly Chamber, the Legal Affairs Committee shall hear the admitted candidates in alphabetical order of their forenames. All candidates shall be presented by their M.P. nominators. After that they shall make a personal presentation with an opportunity to add further particulars to their career records and to acquaint the Committee members with their concepts of work as members of the Supreme Judicial Council, within up to 10 minutes for each candidate.
The Committee members shall ask questions to the candidates, including on the basis of the observations received from not-for-profit legal entities registered for pursuit of public benefit activities, higher schools and research organizations. After all questions are posed, the respective candidate for member of the SJC shall be given an opportunity to answer within up to 3 minutes.
The Legal Affairs Committee shall draft a report on the hearing within three days after the conduct thereof. The report shall be put to the vote at a separate sitting of the Legal Affairs Committee and shall be submitted to the record-keeping department of the National Assembly not later than the 14th day of September 2012.
