The House of Representatives unanimously approved, during a legislative session held this Monday in Rabat, Bill No. 55.24 amending and supplementing Law No. 62-99 forming the Code of Financial Jurisdictions.
Presenting the bill, the Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with Parliament, Government Spokesperson, Mustapha Baitas, stressed that this text aims to create a new grade, called “higher grade”, taking effect from March 23 2023, date of entry into force of the provisions amending and supplementing articles 165 and 192 of Law No. 62.99 establishing the Financial Jurisdictions Code.
And added that promotion to the new grade is open to judges of financial courts who have at least five years of seniority in the exceptional grade, explaining that the current structure of grades of judges of financial courts includes three grades (second, first and exceptional), in addition to the “non-grade” in which the first president of the Court of Auditors and the King’s Attorney General at the Court of Auditors are appointed.
-The creation of this new grade aims to broaden the promotion prospects of financial court judges, “given that a large number of them see their professional career frozen at the exceptional grade before reaching the age of 45, while the retirement age is set at 65 years, with the possibility of extension to 71 years,” he observed.
Mr. Baitas stressed that this measure is part of the consecration of the similarity between the judges of the financial courts and the judges of the judicial system of the Kingdom, who have benefited from the said grade since March 23, 2023, under the Organic Law No. 14.22 amending and supplementing Organic Law No. 106.13 relating to the status of magistrates.
