PG Lazar about GEO on justice laws: We are checking for possible infringements of Constitution to go to the Ombudsman

Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar on Tuesday stated that the Government Emergency Ordinance (GEO) regarding the justice laws has created numerous problems of a functional nature for the prosecutors' offices, especially for the DNA (National Anticorruption Directorate), with the Public Prosecution Service currently checking for possible infringements of the Constitution, so as to address then the Ombudsman, who can notify the Constitutional Court. 

"This emergency ordinance has created numerous problems of a functional nature for the prosecutors' offices, especially for the DNA, and we are now analyzing it to find the possible violations of the Constitution. The solutions are going to be identified in the next days. We are checking the ordinance to discover the possible infringements of the Constitution, in order to approach the Ombudsman afterwards and the latter to notify further the Constitutional Court of Romania," Lazar told AGERPRES. 

The GEO on the modification and completion of normative acts in the justice field was published in the Official Journal on Tuesday, one day after it adoption by the Government. 

Minister of Justice Tudorel Toader on Monday announced at the Victoria Governmental Palace the adoption by the Government of this ordinance.