[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1134, 208], "category": "Text", "text": "CSMJ). The Ministry faces challenges linked to difficult working conditions, weak human and institutional capacities and limited budget."}, {"bbox": [97, 218, 1134, 458], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Superior Council for the Judicial Magistracy** (Conselho Superior da Magistratura Judicial - CSMJ) is constitutionally mandated to manage and discipline the judiciary. It nominates, places, transfers, and dismisses judges and it proposes the appointments of judges to the Constitutional and Supreme Courts. It also orders inspections, investigations and inquiries into judicial services and it issues opinions on legal diplomas relating to the organisation of the judiciary, the statutes of magistrates and matters relating to the administration of justice. The CSMJ will play a key role in the implementation of the Action. In addition, together with the MJDH, it will play a role in the development of legal diplomas and regulations as well as in judicial management, organisation and administration of justice relevant in the implementation of this Action. Despite having its own resources and the improvement of the magistrates' skills, the CSMJ needs support to modernise and become more efficient."}, {"bbox": [97, 468, 1134, 577], "category": "Text", "text": "The **National Institute of Judicial Studies** (Instituto Nacional de Estudos Judiciários - INEJ) provides trainings for magistrates, public prosecutors, and judicial staff. In this Action, INEJ will play a crucial role in the programming, implementation, and sustainability of the training. To conduct the trainings, INEJ draws on its own small teaching body and a pool of national trainers. Currently, INEJ is seriously underfunded, limiting its capacity to deliver."}, {"bbox": [97, 587, 1134, 722], "category": "Text", "text": "The **General Attorney Office** (Procuradoria-Geral da República - PGR) represents the State in the exercise of criminal proceedings, defends the legality of judicial functions, supervises compliance with procedures in the judicial system and defends the legal rights of natural and legal persons. In this Action PGR will provide political and strategic leadership in the interventions related to combating organised crime, money laundering and asset recovery and in identifying the required trainings."}, {"bbox": [97, 732, 1134, 1026], "category": "Text", "text": "At the operational level, combating organised crime, money laundering and asset recovery will be undertaken by the **National Service for Recovery of Assets** (Serviço Nacional de Recuperação de Activos - SENRA) and the **National Directorate of the Plan to Combat Corruption** (Direcção Nacional do Plano de Combate a Corrupção - DNPCC). The SENRA locates, identifies, and seizes financial and non-financial assets or products related to crime. Despite important progress made in training public prosecutors, their skills continue to be improved as noted in the above-mentioned recent FATF report. The DNPCC prevents actions or omissions liable to cause property losses, diversion, appropriation, squandering or dilapidation of public goods, promotes the transparency of public management and inspects and controls actions of possible acts of public impropriety, liable to damage public property. Its participation in the Action will be particularly relevant in the activities linked to the fight against corruption. The technical resources made available to the DNPCC to carry out its attributions have been improving in recent years. However, they remain insufficient."}, {"bbox": [97, 1036, 1134, 1145], "category": "Text", "text": "The **National Directorate for Investigation and Criminal Action** (Direcção Nacional de Investigação e Acção Penal - DNIAP) conducts, investigates, instructs, and carries out proceedings in criminal cases, in which public prosecutors, judicial magistrates, Members of the National Assembly, and presidential appointees are accused. It has relevance in the context of the justice system, focusing its functions on magistrates and senior justice officials."}, {"bbox": [97, 1155, 1134, 1290], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Criminal Investigation Police** (Serviço de Investigação Criminal - SIC) is a body within the Ministry of the Interior (Ministério do Interior), whose main function is to investigate crimes. The SIC performs judicial functions assisting the PGR in the instruction of criminal cases presented to the court. The investigative functions give it particular importance in the context of criminal justice. However, the SIC lacks qualified staff and technical and financial resources to carry out its activities."}, {"bbox": [97, 1300, 1134, 1435], "category": "Text", "text": "Other relevant entities are the **General Tax Administration** (Administração Geral Tributária - AGT), involved in this Action given its role in collecting taxes, fighting tax fraud, and sharing information with other institutions as well as the **Financial Information Unit** (Unidade de Informação Financeira - UIB) which has the competence to receive, analyse and disseminate information on money laundering, financing of terrorism, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction as well as cooperating with international counterparts on these themes."}, {"bbox": [97, 1445, 1134, 1607], "category": "Text", "text": "The **General Inspection of the Administration of the State** (Inspeção-Geral da Administração do Estado - IGAE), an auxiliary body of the President of the Republic, carries out administrative internal control of the public administration. It has attributions in combating and correcting irregularities, such as fraud, corruption, violations in the execution of the budget, denial of disciplinary power, embezzlement, abuse of power, and nepotism. It encourages public entities to correct irregularities and forward processes to be investigated by the competent judicial and criminal bodies."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1144, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 24"}]