Creation of a Proficiency Center for Judicial Officers of Romania in Bucharest

This structure, entitled Academic Centre for Training, Preparation and Proficiency of Judicial Officers, will have its own premises in the following months. They will be located in a vast new building which first stone will be laid at the beginning of 2006.
In presence of Jacques Isnard, president of UIHJ, and in front of a gathering of journalists and high political, judicial and administrative authorities, amongst whom were Serge Andon, president of the Law Commission at the Deputy Chamber, Jean Popescu Tar Goviste, Prefect, Liviu Narcisparvu, General Secretary of the Superior Council of Magistrates, Ramona Bulcu, representing the General Prosecutor, Viorica Costinu, president of the Association of Judges, the president Ducu developed the reasons in favour of establishing the creation of such a centre. “According to the UIHJ's view, European Judicial Officers must submit to a strict status elaborated according to carefully chosen criteria. Amongst these criteria are the ones regarding access to the profession (high level of Law education - same training as the other actors of the Judicial world: lawyers, judges - professional training (2 years), professional examination), ...”

A centre for all Enforcement Agents

But, according to the president of NUJOR, this centre shouldn't be limited to the sole Judicial Officers. In fact, Banking Enforcement Agents and all others who also work in the field of enforcement - without however been subjected to the European standards, as set up by Recommendation 17 of 9 September 2003 of the Council of Europe on Enforcement (which was signed by the Romanian Government) - could as well attend this centre.
The teachers of the centre will be carefully chosen amongst academics and professionals specialized in civil and constitutional Law, and even amongst professional psychologists!
President Ducu also drew a picture of the valour that the centre intended to apply to the training of Judicial Officers and focused on ethics and professional rigour. According to Mihai Ducu, this centre could also become a true institutional crossroads for other Judicial Officers coming from European States. Mr Ducu insisted then on the indispensable complement of the Judicial Officers Magazine and the scientific publications it contained. The president insisted on his wish to give this magazine a true trans-national quality, by offering its columns to foreign authors. As a matter of fact, Mihai Ducu revealed that articles from Slovakian specialists would soon be published in this periodic.
Last but not least, the next issue of the magazine will be published both in Romanian and in French.
The work of President Ducu in the field of training (as in others) is in all respects truly admirable and is in the right line of the UIHJ politic in this matter, as determined by the Tunis Congress in 2003.