Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presided a meeting Tuesday at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior, during which the bill was presented for the reform, simplification, acceleration and tightening bill. of disciplinary justice In the State, in the context of the broader effort to upgrade state services.

The bill, which was put into public consultation yesterday, provides for the replacement of existing primary disciplinary councils and the Secondary Council by a new body, the Disciplinary Board of Human Resources Public Sector.

The new Council will be staffed by 50 specialized officials of the State Legal Council, who will deal exclusively and fully with disciplinary law in the State. They are currently involved in the compositions of the disciplinary bodies and members of the NSP who have other main employment, which is estimated to contribute to delays.

The new system estimates that most cases will be heard in a few months, and today delays in the administration of disciplinary justice are approaching until all six years. Binding deadlines are provided for any stage of the disciplinary procedure and responsibility for unjustified delays.

Utilizing technology and redefinition of misconduct and penalties

The work of the new Council will be supported through the further digitization of the disciplinary procedure, as it will be made available to the Ministry of Interior’s Public Employees’ Register and the E-Peitharxika database of the National Transparency Authority, which allows any discipline. At the same time, it will be possible to hold meetings via teleconference, and all documents will be electronically engaged.

The bill also brings tightening and modernization of the legal framework, as cases of mild disciplinary sanctions have been found in the past when criminal justice had concluded in much stricter decisions.

In this regard, the list of misconduct is expanded, which will now include the refusal of evaluation. New sanctions, such as the deprivation of salary scales and the prohibition of liability. Criminal offenses are also foreseen due to a discount of those convicted by their service, such as computer fraud, certificate forgery, infidelity and bribery.

For faster resolution of cases pending, the solution is also introduced of disciplinary conciliation. The new institution will allow accused to accept what is being brought against a milder sentence. Disciplinary conciliation cannot be subject to cases where there is a possibility of a definitive cessation of the official, nor cases where the State has suffered financial damage.

The new Council will judge the most serious disciplinary cases in five -member compositions. Smaller severity will be evaluated by three -member committees.

During the meeting it was noted that since 2019 they have led to a definitive pause by the State 1.155 employees, As efforts have been tackled, while with the separate mechanism of evaluation and bonus productivity, procedures and incentives have been instituted to reward the most efficient and strengthen the weak.

Mitsotakis: Another attempt at Great Accountability Reformation in the State

During the meeting the Prime Minister noted: “The reform of disciplinary law had been of concern to me since I was a Minister of Administrative Reform when the first systematic efforts were made to award disciplinary justice. And it is time to take a major step forward, which I believe is achieved by the bill we have put in public consultation and which will have become a law of the state by the end of July.

The purpose is to have a significant acceleration of all procedures for the performance of disciplinary justice, through the creation of a major central disciplinary council.

And of course, to emphasize that, in the context of the reform of disciplinary law, the refusal of evaluation will constitute more disciplinary offense and will be evaluated accordingly by the competent disciplinary board.

It is another effort that we are making, in the context of the great reform of the wider public sector, to be able to modernize procedures so that disciplinary civil servants can close their pending within a few months, and not within many years, as we have, He is sentenced to very severe misconduct, disciplinary councils to actually judge that they had to save her with a simple “caress”. This is time to leave them permanently and irrevocably behind us. “

The Minister of the Interior Theodoris Lebanese said: “With the Disciplinary Law Reforming bill, which was put into public consultation yesterday and will be on July 21, we will be on public consultation, we are attempting a comprehensive reform of the procedures and the way of awarding disciplinary justice, with the aim of being awarded the faster and auction. before the Disciplinary Board for a long time.

We are making a systematic struggle to strengthen the public sector with specific actions. Disciplinary councils, as they have been operating to date, had long response times, which in many cases have reached six years and may have in some cases beyond, and we want to continue in public sector evaluation, improving the services provided by public officials to citizens.

And let’s say that from 2019 to the present day, 1,155 civil servants have been dismissed by the State, either due to counterfeit supporting documents or due to specific disciplinary offenses. The times that these disciplinary procedures took place were great, completed, but we want to accelerate more to give a sense of justice and to reward the capable and worthy civil servants in this way. “

The meeting was also attended by the Minister of State Akis Skertsos, the Deputy Minister of the Interior Vassilis Spanakis and Vivi Charalambogiannis and the Secretary General