The High Court wants to appeal to the CCR Bolojan's law regarding magistrates' pensions / When will the decision be made

The supreme court, led by Lia Savonea, convenes its judges to decide whether to challenge the law on the pensions of magistrates in the Constitutional Court, for which the Bolojan Cabinet assumed responsibility for the second time, on Tuesday, in Parliament. The High Court of Cassation and Justice is the one that attacked the law at the CCR and after the first assumption of the Government.

The meeting of the reunited sections of the High Court of Cassation and Justice will most likely take place on Friday, to vote whether or not to attack at the CCR the project regarding the modification of magistrates' pensions, according to HotNews sources from the justice system. It is very possible that the magistrates will give a vote for the law to reach the table of the CCR, according to the same sources.

After Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan took responsibility in Parliament on the law on magistrates' pensions on Tuesday, the opposition has three days to file a no-confidence motion. In the absence of a censure motion being submitted within this term, the law is considered adopted. The deadline expires Thursday afternoon.

After the law is adopted by the Parliament, it can be contested for two days at the CCR. This deadline expires on Saturday.

Changes compared to the first version that Ilie Bolojan assumed responsibility for

The law that Ilie Bolojan has now assumed responsibility for has only one major difference compared to the first version, which failed at the CCR in October (due to the lack of an opinion from the CSM). Compared to the first option, the law provides for a transition period of 15 years, and not 10.

• The draft law stipulates that the pension be equal to 70% of the last net salary, as in the previous form proposed by the Bolojan Government, rejected by the Constitutional Court.
• The transition period, however, increased from 10 to 15 years. Concretely, this means that in 15 years, magistrates will retire at 65.
• Each year, the retirement age will increase by one year until, in 2042, prosecutors and judges retire at 65.
• According to the draft law, the amount of the service pension will be 55% of the calculation base, represented by the average of the gross allowances of the last 60 months, but not more than 70% of the last net allowance received in the activity.
• Magistrates will still be able to retire early, provided they have 35 years of service, but if they have not reached the age of 65, an annual penalty of “2% until they reach the standard retirement age in the public system” will be applied.

Currently, the service pension of magistrates represents 80% of the last gross salary.

For the new law, the Government waited for the CSM's opinion, which, however, was negative.