Evaluation Conference on the Criminal Code Reform
As part of the reform process of the Criminal Code, which went through conflictive stages and had received strong criticism from civil society, an Evaluation Conference on the Criminal Code Reform was held in December 2015. It was convened within the framework of the "Justice and Inclusion" Program, at the initiative of the Presidency of the Republic, the Constitution and House Rules Commission of the Parliament, and with the support of the European Union. The Conference was conceived as a mechanism additional to the existing Advisory Commissions of the House of Representatives, with the specific aim of opening a dialogue space between the different civil society stakeholders. All social organizations interested in contributing to the parliamentary debate on the reform of the Criminal Code were invited to participate. The Conference had a Rapporteur who protocolled the sessions and created a final document reflecting agreements and contributions.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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