The Plenum of the Chamber of Deputies voted, on Tuesday, the draft Law on the approval of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 6/2016 regarding some measures for the execution of the technical supervision mandates ordered in the criminal process.
It is about the famous Interception Ordinance, adopted in 2016 by the then Minister of Justice, Raluca Prună, through which SRI can conduct criminal investigation acts under special conditions.
The bill was passed by 283 votes to 10, with 10 abstentions.
The object of the project is to regulate some measures for the execution of the technical supervision mandates ordered in the criminal process.
According to the draft, SRI can conduct criminal investigation under special conditions in cases of betrayal, espionage, terrorism.
Ordinance 6/2016 stipulates that “the bodies of the Romanian Intelligence Service may not carry out criminal investigation acts, may not take the measure of detention or pre-trial detention and shall not have their own detention facilities.
As an exception, the bodies of the Romanian Intelligence Service may be designated special criminal investigation bodies according to art. 55 para. (5) and (6) of the Code of Criminal Procedure for the execution of technical supervision mandates, according to the provisions of art. 57 para. (2) the final thesis from the Code of Criminal Procedure ”.
The Legal Commission of the Chamber of Deputies decided, by unanimous vote, to submit to the plenum of the Chamber of Deputies the adoption of the draft, without amendments, in the form adopted by the Senate.
The Public Ministry is authorized to possess and use adequate means for obtaining, verifying, processing, storing and discovering information regarding the crimes given in the competence of the prosecutor’s offices, in accordance with the law.
In addition, the judicial police bodies carry out their criminal investigation activity, directly, under the leadership and supervision of the prosecutor, being obliged to carry out its provisions.
The services and bodies specialized in collecting, processing and archiving information have the obligation to make available, immediately, to the competent prosecutor’s office, at its headquarters, all data and all information, unprocessed, held in connection with the commission of crimes.
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