The arranged time of 3 hours was insufficient for the debate, at today’s NCEU-\u041c\u041a session, on the subject “Reform ideas for “cleared” judiciary through the prism of existing mechanisms” as a part of the First session of the second cycle of Working Group 3 (Judiciary and fundamental rights \u2013 Chapter 23) which was held on the Zoom platform, noting the participation of over 50 Macedonian and Slovakian experts.<\/p>\n
“We have enough mechanisms, and we feel that through them an independent judiciary system can be created. The goal is not to form new organizational bodies and to enact new laws to do the clearing, rather it is to use the existing ones, stated Bojan Maricic, the minister of justice in the Republic of North Macedonia. He reiterated that the goal of the Government is to focus on the reforms that will reinforce the judicial capacities, adding that according to the new methodology of the European Commission \u201ethe process begins and ends with the Fundamentals cluster\u201c.<\/p>\n
“The Ministry of Justice thinks that the reforms have to be done with help from the European Union, but with our active participants, as well. It is our goal to enforce the good laws and not only enact them. It has to be our common goal. We have all the prerequisites to make that difference,” said Maricic. He announced that the work evaluation model for judges is currently in development, and it will be used to assess the work done by judges and public prosecutors alike.<\/p>\n
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Prof. D-r. Mileva Gjurovska, the national coordinator of the NCEU-MK and president of the European Movement Macedonia remarked that one of the crucial areas, that starts and ends the negotiations is in fact the Fundamentals cluster containing Chapters 23 and 24.<\/p>\n
“The success of all the other clusters will depend on the success of this cluster. As an important issue, the consolidation of the judicial system has complete legitimacy\u201c, observed Gjurovska.<\/p>\n
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