ON STATE GUARANTEED LEGAL AID   |   111 / 2017

Article 7: Tasks of the Minister of Justice

The Minister of Justice shall have the following responsibilities and execute the following tasks: 

a) develops the state policy in the field of legal aid; 

b) proposes to the Ministry of Finance the annual draft budget for legal aid, in compliance with the rules foreseen in the legislation for the management of the budgetary system

c) oversees the well-functioning of the legal aid system and the effectuation of the annual budget for legal aid;

ç) reports every year in the Assembly on the situation of the system of legal aid; 

d) approves the following acts:

i) the form sheet of the request for primary legal aid;

ii) the form sheet of the request for secondary legal aid; 

iii) the form sheet of the request for exemption from payment of court fees and other court costs; 

iv) the form sheet of the self-declaration for primary legal aid;

v) the form sheet of the self-declaration of income and property in accordance to the objective of the law; 

vi) the form sheet of the self-declaration for special categories according to Article 11 of this law;

vii) the form sheet of the register for the registration of the aforementioned requests and self-declarations;

viii) the form sheet of NGOs that offer primary legal aid;

ix) the form sheet of the appeal to the decision for dismissal of the request for secondary legal aid.

The Ministry of Justice shall take the necessary measures for the publication of the form sheets provided for in this paragraph in a format accessible by persons with disabilities.

dh) approves the establishment of primary legal aid service centres, after having received prior the opinion of the High Judicial Council.

e) approves the model contract with not-for-profit organizations for primary legal aid services as foreseen in this law, after having previously acquired the opinion of the Ministry responsible for finance.

ë) approves the model contract with advocates for the delivery of secondary legal aid services.

f) approves, after having received prior the opinion of the Directorate for Free-of-Charge Legal Aid and the National Chamber of Advocates, the criteria and methodology for assessing the quality of delivery of legal aid services and the procedures of the supervision by the Directorate for Free-of-Charge Legal Aid of secondary legal aid services; 

g) approves with a joint instruction with the minister responsible for Finances, after having received prior the opinion of the National Chamber of Advocacy, the criteria for receiving payments and the relevant remuneration fees to advocates, who provide secondary legal aid services;

gj) approves the procedures that are followed by the Directorate for Free-of-Charge Legal Aid regarding the payments for court costs according to the provisions of this law;

h) publishes the list of advocates offering secondary legal aid services and the list of authorised not-for-profit organisations that offer primary legal aid services on the official website of the Ministry of Justice; 

i) approves the rules and procedures for the collection, filling and administration of the information of the request register and the self-declarations of the subjects of this law and of the register of delivering primary legal aid; 

j) accomplishes all other tasks assigned to her or him by this law.

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