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The Mandate System for the Belgian Public Prosecution

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title The Mandate System for the Belgian Public Prosecution
 
Creator BROUCKER, Bruno; Senior researcher, Public Management Institute,
K.U. Leuven, Belgium
VERVAET, Caroline; Former junior researcher, Public Management Institute, K.U. Leuven, Belgium; Currently working for the Federal Department of Internal Affairs
DEPRÉ, Roger; Professor emeritus and researcher, Public Management Institute, K.U. Leuven
 
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Description The law of 22 December 1998 introduced the mandate system for the heads of the Public Prosecution offices, which were appointed permanent before that. Theoretically, such a system needs to enhance, within the organization, effectiveness, efficiency, responsabilisation, and goal-orientation. However, the mandate system within the Belgian Public Prosecution was introduced prematurely, for dubious reasons and in a precipitate manner. In the current situation, the position of the mandate holder is uncertain, with a bounded autonomy and a low wage increase. Moreover, it remains impossible to intervene in the policy of appointed heads of office (during their mandate), the efficiency and effectiveness is only increased in some prosecution offices and a contract containing actual management responsibilities is absent. In sum: there is a large gap between the theoretical principles of mandate systems and the way it is introduced in the Belgian Public Prosecution.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2009-12-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/29
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2009: Issue No. 28 E/Special Issue; 87-103
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/29/25
 
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