Judicial Care Agency
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| State level | Federal level | ||
| position | Public institution | ||
| At sight | Federal Ministry of Justice | ||
| founding | 2008 | ||
| Headquarters | Universitätsstrasse 5/7, Vienna 1 | ||
| management | Thomas Schützenhöfer (Managing Director) Wolfgang Fellner (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) |
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| Website | www.jba.gv.at | ||
The Justizbetreuungsagentur ( JBA ) is an institution under public law which in Austria takes on the personnel management of the Federal Ministry of Justice . The agency was set up on the basis of the Justizbetreuungsagentur-Gesetz , which means that for the first time narrowly defined sections of the Austrian penal system have been outsourced from the direct responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. The relevant law was passed in the National Council on June 5, 2008.
Task and concept
As a company managed by the Federal Ministry of Justice, the Justizbetreuungsagentur is responsible for recruiting external specialists in Austrian prisons . These include doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists and teachers. Employees in these professional groups were previously employed by the Federal Ministry itself. Initially, the field of activity of the judicial care agency will be limited primarily to special institutions for the implementation of measures , where a particularly large number of external staff is required. In a first step, the agency will therefore be entrusted with the hiring of the employees of the newly established Asten branch office (branch of the Linz Prison ).
In any case, the agency is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Justice and receives its mandates from it and from the General Directorate for the Execution of Prisons and the Execution of Deprivation of Liberty . As a company of the Republic of Austria, the judicial care agency, similar to the accounting agency, is not profit-oriented. Jürgen Atzlsdorfer was appointed managing director of the facility on November 28, 2008 by Justice Minister Maria Berger . He took over the management for an initial period of 5 years, starting on January 1, 2009. By resolution of July 14, 2008, the former head of the personnel department in the Federal Ministry, Hermann Germ, became the chairman of the supervisory board. On February 1, 2014, Thomas Schützenhöfer was appointed as the new managing director of the judicial support agency.
history
The Ministry of Justice's plans first became known in April 2008. At that time, the first drafts soon met with strong criticism, especially from the Court of Auditors and the Green Party, with their judicial spokesman Albert Steinhauser . At the center of the initial resistance was the fear that the outsourcing of personnel tasks to the judicial support agency would lead to a gradual privatization of the Austrian penal system.
After carefully examining all complaints according to the company's own statement, the final legislative proposal for the Justizbetreuungsagenturgesetz finally became a government bill through a Council of Ministers resolution, which was submitted to the Austrian National Council on May 14, 2008 . On May 28, the submission was also accepted in the Justice Committee with the votes of the SPÖ , ÖVP , FPÖ and BZÖ , making it ready for the vote in plenary. In its meeting on June 5, 2008, the National Council decided to adopt the government bill by a majority with the votes of the same parties. The law thus became law on January 1, 2009. On this date, the JBA began its activity and was entered in the commercial register. The newly founded company provided the first personnel in February 2009.
See also
Web links
- Judicial Care Agency website .
- Judicial Care Agency Act (JBA-G) in the legal information system of the Federal Chancellery.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inquiry response (PDF; 20 kB) from Federal Minister Dr. Johannes Hahn on the subject of "Establishing a judicial support agency" .
- ^ Markus Müller: Dispute over the privatization of prisons . Report by the radio station Ö1, broadcast in the Mittagsjournal on April 12, 2008.
- ↑ Parliament's press release on the subject of the judicial support agency put on the parliamentary route .
- ↑ Press release of the parliament on the subject of justice committee makes judicial care agency ready for plenary .
- ↑ Parliament's press release on the subject of the National Council, majority decides on judicial support agency .