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The current Draft Amendments foresee a complete restructuring of the judicial constitutional review mechanism and of its modalities. First, according to the new wording of Article 93 par 3, the Constitutional Chamber appears to be no longer part of the Supreme Court. As such, this provision draws a clear distinction between the Supreme Court and local courts on the one hand, and the Constitutional Chamber in charge of exercising constitutional control on the other. While the latter appears to remain a separate body meant to exercise some form of constitutional control (see comments on amended Article 97 in Sub-Section 4.1. infra), the status of this new Constitutional Chamber is not specified in the Draft Amendments.