Press release – Panel for the Clarification of Certain Points of Law in Criminal Matters in its session of 31 March 2022

High Court of Review and Justice 

PRESS RELEASE

In its session of 31 March 2022, the High Court of Review and Justice – Panels for the Clarification of Certain Points of Law, lawfully established in the case, considered a request for a preliminary ruling for the clarification of certain points of law, and returned the following Judgment:

Decision #17 in Case #88/1/2022

Denies as inadmissible the request brought by the Mureş Tribunal – Criminal Chamber, in Case #10972/320/2021 for a preliminary ruling for the clarification of the following point of law:

“In the interpretation and application of Art. 5 para. (3) in Law #255/2013 for the enactment of Law #135/2010 on the Criminal Procedure Code and to amend and supplement certain regulatory acts that include criminal procedure stipulations, does the concept of ‘cases, proposals, challenges, complaints or other motions where the criminal investigation was performed by the National Anticorruption Department’ also include dealing with motions for conditional release from service of a criminal sentence that was ordered on conviction for such charges?

Obligatory as of the date of publication in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I under Art 477 para. (3) in the Criminal Procedure Code.

Returned in public session today, the 31st of March 2022.

 

After the justification is written and the Judgment signed it shall be published in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I.

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