Requested by: President of the Parliament

Recommended Measures:
The Venice Commission would have welcomed the establishment of an independent expert oversight/complaints body. From the additional clarifications provided by the authorities in September 2023, it would nevertheless seem that such a body is being contemplated or may even be in the process of being set up, which is a welcome development. Furthermore, improvements can still be made as regards the legal basis for the scope of discretion conferred on the SIS (i.e. the issue of departmental regulations), clarification of the coordinating role of the President of the Republic and its relation to parliamentary scrutiny, providing a possibility to targeted persons to impugn before a tribunal an intelligence measure if this becomes known to them and a clarification of various notions used in the two laws which may or may not be further defined in other laws.