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The Committee on Justice, Legislation and Human Rights of the House of Councilors held, Monday, March 17, 2025, a meeting devoted to the discussion of Bill 46.21 relating to the profession of commissioner, in the presence of the Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Wahbi.
This bill is part of the continuation of the implementation of the reform of the judicial system, in particular the rehabilitation of the legal and judicial professions, which play a central and essential role in this system and contribute directly to the achievement of judicial efficiency.
In his speech, the Minister of Justice stressed that this bill aims to expand the functions of the judicial commissioners, to strengthen their protection and to empower them, explaining that this profession is faced with challenges linked to its relationship with its environment. According to the Minister, the profession of commissioner of justice is an active profession in the judicial environment, given its pivotal and essential role in the conduct of procedures underlying the production of justice through contentious procedures, in particular those relating to notification and execution.
The discussion of this bill is an opportunity to salute the interest led by the government in this sector in accordance with royal directives and to the implementation of the legislative agenda structuring justice and the judicial system in our country, while appreciating the participative approach adopted by the Minister of Justice, which is based on the global reform of certain legal professions and the laws relating to it.
After having agreed with the importance of the new features included in the project to overcome the difficulties and constraints and fill the shortcomings that this profession experienced throughout its exercise, they highly appreciated the expansion of the competence of the commissioners and their access to continuing education, the fortification of the profession, the strengthening of the powers granted to the National Commission of the Commissioners, the establishment of a Code of Conduct, Modernization of the profession and the use of modern technology and other provisions, expressing their hope that these provisions will make it possible to carry out the desired legal security and efficiency to overcome the implementation difficulties, late notification and others.
In response to the remarks of the ladies and gentlemen, the minister provided a series of clarifications on the requirements of this project, welcoming any suggestion or amendment which would improve this text.
The interventions of the ladies and gentlemen, the advisers focused on various questions relating to the profession of justice commissioner, whether it be rights and duties, procedures that would facilitate the processes of notification and execution, the conditions required to access the profession and the authorities competent in matters of surveillance, research, inspection and discipline.
Ladies and gentlemen, advisers have also made a certain number of suggestions, the most important of which concern the representation of women in regional councils, the definition of cases of port of the costume of justice commissioner, the question of rehabilitation and their relationship with the conditions of access to the profession, the standardization of appeal deadlines, the need to prepare the regulatory texts accompanying this project, and other amendment proposals that would come enrich this legal text
In conclusion, the Minister stressed that the novelties brought by this bill reflect the open policy led by the Ministry of Justice in the modernization of the legal and judicial professions, based on a participatory approach.
