Articles

I. Duty and composition

The Public Prosecutor's Office (Ministeri Fiscal) has the duty of watching over the defence and application of the legal order and the independence of the courts, and to promote before them the application of the law to safeguard the rights of the public and the defence of the general interest; in the same way it acts in accordance with the principles of legality, unity and internal hierarchy.

The Public Prosecutor's Office, besides exercising the public action, intervenes directly in criminal processes and requests all the enquiries which it deems necessary to investigate criminal facts and also those responsible.

The Public Prosecutor's Office watches over strict compliance with the judgments delivered and is the institution which exercises the penal action, whether through knowledge of a fact which could constitute an offence or contravention; also it intervenes essentially in all civil proceedings in which there may be absent interested parties, minors, persons incapacitated or persons in need of protection, in processes relative to the Civil Registry and in all the other cases established by the laws.

The Public Prosecutor's Office is composed of a general public prosecutor and three assistants.

II. Public Prosecutor's Office Organisation chart