Today, on 23.04.2024, at 10:00 a.m., the Appeal Chamber started the judicial review in a public hearing of case (JR) 20/2021, dated 21.04.2021, which pertains the appeal of the assessee Bib Ndreca filed against the decision of the Commission Independent Qualification, no. 337, dated 18.01.2021.
Given that for the international observer of the International Monitoring Operation Ms. Maria Tuma, who had attended this case during the process developed with the Independent Qualification Commission and later on in the hearing in camera on 19.03 2024 held at the Appeal Chamber, it was objectively impossible to be present at today’s hearing, she was replaced by international observer Theo Jacobs. At the beginning of the hearing, Mr. Jacobs asked the trial panel to adjourn the hearing for a reasonable time, to give Ms. Tuma the opportunity to be present in person at the trial of the case, as he was not familiar with it.
After having heard the assessee’s position who stated that it is in the assessment of the trial panel to accept or not this request, the trial panel decided to reschedule the hearing on 14.05.2024, at 10:00, to make it possible for the international observer Maria Tuma to be present in the judicial debate of the case.
The public hearing shall take place at the premises of the Special Appeal Chamber, at: Bulevardi “Dëşhmorët e Kombit”, nr. 3. Tirana.