Nongovernmental Organizations I KD, Movement FOL and INPO are not allowed to monitor the process of interviewing candidates for prosecutors

Today on September 9th, 2024, the aforementioned organisation was presented in the environment where it was supposed to be interviewed by candidates for prosecutors, but the officials responsible for the Commission's commission to Resign Young Prosecutors, with harsh and unprofessional conduct, have asked representatives of organisations in question to release interviews for new prosecutors, on the grounds that they have not been sent to organisations in question by letter for monitoring the process, and that they have no co-operation with the KKP for monitoring these processes.

We remember that recruiting candidates for prosecutors is an extremely important process for the justice system and as such because of the importance it is required to develop so that all standards, local and international practices, including the transparency principle, should be respected in full from the beginning of the process to the end of it.

The European prosecutors' advisory report in 2014's November 9th opinion on European norms and the principles associated with prosecutors, on point 12, has found: The career and employment of prosecutors, including promotion, organisation and disciplinary actions, and exclusion, should be regulated by law and managed on transparent and objective criteria in line with impartial procedures.

Also, the Council of Europe recommendations had demanded that the Prosecutorial and Judicial Council should be accountable to judges, prosecutors, but also society, all of this being achieved through transparency in their contests.

The Council of Europe's recommendation on independence, efficiency and responsibilities of judges envisions the Council for the judiciary to show the highest degree of transparency towards judges and society by conducting predetermined procedures and rational decisions.

These recommendations provided by the Council of Europe are in line with the opinions of the Consultative Council of European Judges (KKGJE), where it envisions transparency in actions taken by the Council is an essential factor in the belief citizens have in the functioning of the judicial system.

We remember that organisations in question, even though they have not accepted an invitation to monitor this process, on Thursday (September 5th 2024) have announced The KKP will be present in the process of interviewing the prosecutors' candidates by name and name, representatives of organisations.

However, the observers in question today (9 September) were not allowed to monitor this process with a higher approach.

Unlike the IKD, the FOL and INPO Movement had monitored the process of advancing and transferring nine prosecutors to the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo, the process for the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor and Founding Prosecutorship in Pristina, and that today's action to prevent organisations from monitoring this process seems meaningless and contrary to the reasoning given that there is no memorandum between the KKP and the process monitoring organisations.

Also, in terms of the recruiting processes in public positions, the Kosovo Judiciary Council (KGJK) repeatedly announces and sends out invitations for participation in these processes, the latest was the invitation to monitor interviews of judges candidates for progress in the Supreme Court, which processes have been monitored by nongovernmental organisations: I KD, FOL Movement and INPO.

Therefore, such an act is to regret and the same seriously and seriously violate public confidence in the prosecutorial system of the Republic of Kosovo.

Nongovernmental organizations:

Kosovo Institute for Justice

FOL Movement

Progress initiative.