Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer decided to reconvene the locator committee for the position of consumer protection supervisor in his ministry.
Ben-Eliezer asked Civil Service Commissioner Shmuel Hollander and the Treasury's Accountant General Shuki Oren to put together the new committee.
The original locator committee was formed following a 2006 government decision to form a consumer protection and fair trade commission.
The committee nominated Attorney Elisha Peleg for the position of commissioner, but legal advice sought by Ben-Eliezer suggested the nomination fell short of some of the requirement, and may not hold up to legal scrutiny.
Ben-Eliezer ordered committee head Gabriel Mimon to file new recommendations for the position within two weeks; but later decided – in accordance to one of Mimon's recommendations – to name a new locator committee.
"From reading the (current) committee's minutes, it is obvious that there was fault in its conduct," said Ben-Eliezer in his letter to Hollander. "The committee members themselves admit in these minutes that their decision was not properly explained, and that they did not uphold all of the relevant procedures.
"While my decision may cause further delay in forming the consumer protection and fair trade commission, I have come to the concluding that it cannot be helped. The nomination at stake it too important… and I insist the proper, professional procedures are followed," said the letter.
Elisha Peleg, meanwhile, had filed a High Court petition demanding the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry accepts his nomination.
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