Proposition 53K2572

Projet de loi portant des dispositions diverses urgentes en matière de justice.

General information ¶

Submitted by

PS | SP the Di Rupo government

Submission date

Dec. 13, 2012

Official page

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Status

Adopted

Requirement

Simple

Subjects

copyright tax evasion vocational training higher court computer systems child protection magistrate psychiatric confinement reprography criminal record carrying out of sentence

Voting ¶

Voted to adopt

CD&V Vooruit LE PS | SP Open Vld MR

Voted to reject

Groen Ecolo ∉ N-VA LDD VB

Party dissidents ¶

• Peter Luykx (CD&V) voted to reject.
• Olivier Maingain (MR) voted to reject.
• Damien Thiéry (MR) voted to reject.

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Discussion ¶

Dec. 19, 2012 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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Mr. Speaker, colleagues, with my last strength, I will continue to work hard to defend justice. Through my oral report, I will try to persuade everyone to read the written report afterwards.

The bill contains the following categories of provisions.

The first category concerns the management of personnel affairs, in particular the increase of the framework of judges, prosecutors and officers in each province, in implementation of the agreements on high-speed justice and the fight against tax fraud.

The second category concerns the management of personnel matters, with the extension by one year of the temporary staff formations of the councillors at the courts of appeal and substitutes-procurator-general. In the same category there is the permission for former magistrates to sit in the various advisory committees pending their abolition. There is also the termination of the system of certified training and of skills premiums for staff. Then there is the category of measures relating to the implementation of the ongoing reform, in particular a few postponements, but providing a state guarantee for the necessary structures for the new prison in Haren. You will allow me not to sum up the various delays.

The third category includes three measures with budgetary impact, namely the law on detention, which is postponed until 1 January 2015 at the latest, a number of necessary technical adjustments to the 2006 Law on Criminal Enforcement Courts, in particular a postponement to January 2015, and a freezing of the fixed budget for the growth path of the Institute for Judicial Training, postponed until 2014.

Following this bill, a general debate was held, especially with reference to an article in a newspaper from the past weekend.

The Minister responded that the reform of the judiciary would be completed with legislative texts in the coming weeks. Currently, the prescribed procedures are being followed.

On the various chapters, a few comments were made, especially from the opposition, to which the minister gave a response.

Mr Landuyt, I thank you. Both Ms. Smeyers and Ms. Dumery were registered as Deputy, both of whom are absent. Madame Turtelboom, would you like to say something in response to what Mr. Turtelboom said? by Landuyt? I please please.

Mr. Speaker, I think that Mr. Landuyt, as the rapporteur, made a very well-founded report. I think we will need to read the written report again.

With this draft law, we ensure that the temporary frameworks for the courts of appeal, where additional manpower is needed, are extended. Furthermore, we are creating a legislative framework for the decision we made during the July budget control, in particular to extend the scheme for the Court of Appeal. We also postpone a number of legislative initiatives in these budgetarily difficult times. This is sometimes done at the request of regions and communities. With regard to the law on juvenile penalties or the criminal enforcement courts, we do so because we will submit a number of bills to Parliament in January as part of the judicial reform. A timetable was agreed on this in the government a few months ago.

A draft law will also be submitted in the area of detention, so that the whole of the criminal enforcement courts can be better formed.

The draft law also covers personnel matters for a number of categories. Some reforms are already underway, while others had a budgetary impact due to the discussion at the end of the year.