This is the important contents prescribed at the Law No. 63/2014/QH13 on Organization of People’s Procuracies passed by the National Assembly on November 24, 2014.
Accordingly, from February 01, 2015, the people’s procuracy system includes the Supreme People’s Procuracy. Superior people’s procuracies; People’s procuracies of provinces and centrally run cities; people’s procuracies of rural districts, urban districts, towns, provincial cities and the equivalent and military procuracies at different levels.
Within that, the organizational structure of the Supreme People’s Procuracy consists of the Supervisory Committee; the Office; the investigating agency; departments, institutions and the equivalent; Training institutions, press agencies and other public non-business units and the Central Military Procuracy shall exercise the power to prosecute and supervise judicial activities related to cases and matters falling under the jurisdiction of superior people’s courts.
At the same time, in accordance with the new Law, the Supreme People’s Procuracy also have the title examiners, principal examiners; senior examiners and the criteria for appointment to and conditions for promotion of examiner
ranks shall be provided by the National Assembly Standing Committee at the proposal of the Procurator General of the Supreme People’s Procuracy.
Besides, the Law also emphasizes that concerned agencies, organizations and individuals shall strictly abide by decisions, and fufill requests, recommendations and protests of people’ procuracies; and may recommend action against, and lodge complaints and denunciations about, illegal acts and decisions of people’s procuracies.
When having grounds to believe that an act or a decision of a people’s procuracy is groundless or illegal, investigating agencies or agencies assigned to conduct some investigating activities, courts and judgment enforcement agencies may recommend or request the people’s procuracy to reconsider its act or decision. Agencies, organizations and individuals are prohibited from obstructing or intervening into the exercise of the power to prosecute and supervise judicial activities by people’s procuracies; taking advantage of the right to lodge complaints and denunciations to slander cadres, civil servants, public employees and other employees of people’s procuracies.
This Law takes effect on June 01, 2015.
