JusMin Toader: National Penitentiary Administration to calculate how many inmates stayed in inadequate conditions

The National Penitentiary Administration (ANP) will calculate how many inmates have stayed in inadequate conditions, and then the amount of money to be offered in this case will be decided so that the financial impact should not be too high, Justice Minister Tudorel Toader said on Wednesday.

"We have the ECHR requirement, the examples of other states, Hungary, Italy, which paid even 5 euros per day of inappropriate detention. I cannot say the amount, because I do not decide it myself. The ANP will do a calculation starting with 2012 when the semi-pilot decision was given, it will see how many inmates have stayed in inappropriate conditions, we will see how many we will have to give damages to, what will be the total number of days, and then we will set the amount. When we have set the total number of days of inappropriate conditions, then we see the impact and the amount of damages," Toader said on Wednesday at the presentation by the ANP and the Probation Directorate of their activity reports for 2017.

He stressed that the draft law on granting damages is not a "Romanian invention" and that the pilot-decision of the ECHR refers to granting them.

At the same time, he referred to a project aimed at building an archive at each court of appeal. The project will be funded by the World Bank.

"Thus, who needs a document - we have to keep it 90 years by law - goes to the archive, which is modern, it will ensure the conditions of keeping, the citizen has access to the service of receiving a copy. At the same time, the premises of the courts and prosecutor's offices, which are suffocated today by archive documents, will be cleared and used for other purposes, including a desk for probation counselors," added Toader.AGERPRES(RO - author: Iulia Carciog, editor: Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - author: Bogdan Gabaroi, editor: Maria Voican)