Supreme Judicial Council

The National Assembly cannot require a report for the Prosecutors' Office deals on a specific criminal case from the Supreme prosecutor. This was the solid response from The Constitutional Court on a question from Sotir Tsatsarov, Legalword reported.

The Parliament has approved rules for nomination, hearing and election of members of the judicial and prosecutors' bodies within the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), of the parliamentary quota, FOCUS News Agency reported.

The rules were unanimously approved with 103 votes in favour.

The judiciary is choosing a chairman of the new Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) today, reported BGNES.

The common meetings of the SJC members are held in two following Saturdays. The meeting of the investigators is on May 13th and 20th 2017.

The Bulgarian Minister of Justice Tsetska Tsacheva officially took over the Presidency of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), reported BNR.

Tsacheva criticized the way of formulation of the agenda at SJC, and promised a concrete changes so as the community to be able to understand for what is debated, through the live transmissions of the SJC sittings.

The Supreme Judicial Council's (SJC) college of judges revised on Tuesday the rules for assessing judges' workload, the SJC said, quoted by BTA.

According to the decision, each calendar year the SJC's administration will generate an electronic report about the individual workload of a judge from the previous year.

Laura Kovesi is to participate in a conference on Romania's experience in fighting corruption on the invitation of the President of Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation, Lozan Panov, a spokesperson of the court told BIRN on Wednesday.

Dropping out the monitoring mechanisms on Bulgaria and Romania would only take place after their recommendations are implemented, the Council of the European Union says in a report.

An investigator has filed a BGN 26 000 claim against Borislav Sarafov, the Deputy Chief Prosecutor over alleged "pressure" on him.

Strahil Kamenichki, who works at the National Investigation Service, allegedly spoke to Sarafov at a work meeting.

Stefan Milev, a former prosecutor, has been appointed as chair of the Sofia Regional Court, Bulgarian media report.

Milev has garnered a narrow majority of 8 to 3 members of the judges' college at the Supreme Judicial Council, the judiciary's top decisionmaking body.

The Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office has said it accepts the conclusions and observations of the monitoring report on the country's judiciary and anti-corruption efforts as realistic and well-founded.