The current law provides that any civil rights committee may reject a civil petition for grievance or transfer it to a relevant institution for the following matters: matters requiring highly sophisticated political judgement, or matters concerning the confidential information of the State or public service; matters pertaining to the National Assembly, courts, the Constitutional Court, Election Commissions, the Board of Audit and Inspection, or local councils.

In such cases, however, there is no legal basis upon which the civil rights committee can request the status or data of the transferred petitions from the relevant institution, raising the need for follow-up measures.

Therefore, this proposal seeks to strongly protect the people’s basic rights by creating a provision requiring the head of the relevant institution to provide the result of civil petition processing, when a civil petition has been transferred and when the committee makes the request for such information. (Newly insert Article 43, paragraph 4)

Require the head of the relevant institution to provide the result of civil petition processing, when a civil petition has been transferred and when the committee makes the request for such information (Newly insert Article 43, paragraph 4)