Magistrates ask for emergency meeting with coalition leaders

The heads of the Superior Council of Magistracy, the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the General Prosecutor’s Office asked the leaders of the ruling coalition to organize a meeting on the projects regarding the modification of normative acts in the field of magistrates.

According to a statement of the SCM, in the context created by the promotion of the legislative proposal regarding the modification of normative acts in the field of service pensions, registered with the Chamber of Deputies, Judge Elena Costache, president of the SCM, together with Judge Corina Corbu, the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, and Alex Florenta, and Alex Florence, The ruling coalition, as initiators of this legislative proposal, the request to organize « emergency », during Thursday, a meeting with representatives of the SCM, JCCJ and PCCJ.

On Tuesday, a draft law on the pensions of the magistrates, initiated by the leaders of the ruling coalition – Marcel Ciolacu, Cătălin Predoiu, Kelemen Hunor, Varujan Pambucian, was submitted to the Parliament.

The proposed normative act stipulates that, starting with January 1, 2026, the judges, the prosecutors, the judges of the Constitutional Court, the assistant magistrates from the High Court of Cassation and Justice and from the CCR, as well as the legal specialized personnel can be retired and can benefit from the service pension if they fulfill the condition for at least 25 years 48 years.

« Starting with January 1, 2026, by derogation from the provisions of Law no. 303/2022 regarding the Statute of judges and prosecutors, judges, prosecutors, judges from the Constitutional Court, assistant magistrates from the High Court of Cassation and Justice and from the Constitutional Court, as well as the legal personnel (of Service if they fulfill the condition of at least 25 years of age made only in these functions, as well as the condition of at least 48 years.

It is stipulated to reach the age of 65 years of retirement for magistrates in 2045.

According to the project, the judges, the prosecutors, the judges of the Constitutional Court, the assistant magistrates from the High Court of Cassation and Justice and from the Constitutional Court, as well as the legal specialized personnel with at least 25 years realized only in these functions can be retired at the reach of the standard retirement age of 65 years and can benefit from 65% and can benefit from 65%. the average of the monthly gross classification allowances and the bonuses in the last 48 months of activity before the date of retirement. The net amount of the service pension cannot be more than 100% of the net income in the last month of activity before the date of retirement.

According to Annex 3 to the project, from 2026 to 2029, the standard retirement age for magistrates increases annually by six months, and in 2029 it reaches 49 years and six months. From 2029, the standard retirement age increases annually by one year, and in 2045 the magistrates will retire only if they are 65 years old. During the whole period, the seniority in the specialty remains 25 years.

The specialized auxiliary staff of the courts and the prosecutor’s offices next to them, the specialized forensic staff and the personnel who hold forensic auxiliary functions, as well as the criminal technicians within the prosecutor’s office, with at least 25 years in the specialized, can benefit from the service pension at the standard of the age, 65% of the calculation base represented by the average of the basic monthly basic salaries, including the permanent bonuses, corresponding to the last 48 consecutive months prior to the month in which the retirement application is submitted, proposes the project.

According to the exhibition of reasons, the National Plan of Redress and Resilitis provides that the service pensions must be reformed on the basis of solutions aimed at correcting the inequities between the beneficiaries of these categories of pensions and the beneficiaries of the public pension system in terms of contributivity, as well as of social justice.

« Currently, the service pensions for certain socio-professional categories, respectively the personnel in the justice system, are calculated by applying an 80% percentage on the calculation base represented by the average monthly gross and bonuses in the last 48 months of activity before the date of retirement. Fundamental of the reform, as described in the PNRR.