As the offices of public prosecutors do not have sufficient resources to handle all the crime reports they receive, the public
prosecutors are forced to indicate, in the organisational plans of the office, what reports are to be given priority.
Law no. 71/2022 established that these priority indications shall be made, from now on, in compliance with general criteria to be set
by the Parliament. This aims at levelling out as much as possible the prosecutors’ choices throughout the Country, as well as
ensuring compliance with the constitutional principles of trial efficiency and mandatory prosecution.
This research intends to provide the Parliament and public prosecutors with effective tools to apply the new rules.