The House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill relating to the Financial Courts Code

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Rabat
During a legislative session held on Monday, the House of Representatives unanimously approved Bill No. 55.24 amending and supplementing Law No. 62.99 relating to the Financial Courts Code.
Presenting the bill, the Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament, the official government spokesperson, Mustafa Paytas, stressed that this text aims to create a new “excellent grade” for judges of financial courts, from March. On December 23, 2023, by modifying and supplementing the provisions of articles 165 and 192 of Law No. 62.99 relating to the Financial Courts Code.
The government official added that promotion to the new grade is open to financial judges with at least five years of seniority in the exceptional grade, explaining that the current grade structure of financial judges includes three grades (second, first and exceptional). ), in addition to “non-grade” in which the first president of the Superior Council of Accounts and the King’s Attorney General are appointed before this council.
Mr. Paytas stressed that the creation of this new grade aims to broaden the prospects for promotion of judges of financial courts, “given that a large number of them end their career at the exceptional grade before reaching the age of 45 years, while their referral The retirement age is set at 65 years, with the possibility of extension up to 71 years.
The minister stressed that this procedure is part of the establishment of similarity between the judges of the financial courts and the judges of the judicial system of the Kingdom having benefited from the aforementioned diploma as of March 23, 2023, in accordance with the law Regulation No. 14.22 amending and supplementing Regulatory Law No. 106.13 relating to the basic system for judges.