JUDICIAL REFORM DISCUSSED IN KREMLIN








MOSCOW, March 11 /from RIA Novosti's Oleg Osipov/ - All agreements reached today at a conference on reforming the national judicial system "should be institutionalised and start working next year," said deputy Kremlin Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak, in charge of an ad hoc group on judicial reform.


	He pointed out that at the Sunday conference in the Kremlin, "the group's proposals were 100 percent supported by members of the judiciary." According to Kozak, it has now become clear "where to go." Among the key issues that need to be made statutory, Kozak singled out the top age limit for judges and court chairmen and the principle of competition in litigation. All speakers agreed that today's dialogue was productive and that it should be continued, he noted.


	The next such meeting, according to President Vladimir Putin, will deal with the Criminal Procedure Code, and senior executives of the law-enforcement departments will be invited to attend.