Systemic improvement of management in the Prosecutor`s Office of the Republic of Lithuania ; Sisteminis vadybos Lietuvos Respublikos prokuratūroje tobulinimas

Abstract

The problem being researched. The integration of Middle and Eastern European states into democratic processes has determined changes in public sector management and with rationalization of sectors of Lithuanian economy the system of justice was also involved: in the year 1993 the Parliament approved the outlines of the reform of the system of justice which set that legal bases of the reform have to be formed, specialists are to be prepared employees selected, the necessary financial and economical basis created, new legal institutions have to be created and the old ones reformed in order to ensure the stable system of justice. The reform has revealed both the advantages and disadvantages of the system of justice: not all the areas of the system of justice have received the appropriate attention. A similar situation occurred when carrying out the outlines of the Reform of the System of Justice approved in the year 1998. An appropriate and effective functioning of legal proceeding has been emphasized in international acts of law and experts' meetings: democratization of management of prosecution system and improvement of the legal regulation of its management as well as more operative fulfillment of its functions are necessa ry; the reorganization has not only to strengthen prosecutors' professionalism but also to ensure the adequate working conditions. This position was approved by the resolutions of the Tenth Congress of the United Nations which took place in Vienna on the 17th of April, 2000 on the crime prevention and behavior with criminals which set that an appropriate administration of the system of criminal law is one of the most effective measures of the fight with criminality. In the programme of preparation for the Republic of Lithuania for entrance into the European Union for the year 2002 the priorities of strengthening of the role of The Prosecutor's Offi ce in the legal state which mentioned: democratization of prosecution system, improvement of the legal regulation of its management as well as more operative fulfillment of its functions.