The Court of Auditors supervises the management of accounts concerning Government services, national public institutions, territorial communities, independent administrative authorities and anybody benefiting from financial assistance from the State or from another legal person governed by public law as well as from any other body benefiting from financial assistance from public enterprises and their subsidiaries and/or affiliates. Article 153: The President of the Court of Auditors is appointed by the President of the Republic for a renewable period of five years once from among personalities recognized for their competence and proven expertise in economics, management, accounting or public finances. Article 154: The composition, responsibilities, organization and functioning of the Court of Auditors are determined by an organic law. CHAPTER VI. THE AUTHORITY OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS Article 155: Judicial decisions are binding. They apply to the public bodies, to any administrative, judicial, military authority and to any natural or legal person. Public bodies are obliged to enforce them and to see to their enforcement. TITLE X. THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CHAPTER I. RESPONSIBILITIES Article 156: The High Court of Justice is a court of exceptional jurisdiction. It judges the President of the Republic, the Vice-President of the Republic and members of the Government. Article 157: The President of the Republic is not held responsible for acts performed in the exercise of his official duties and appears before the High Court of Justice only in case of high treason. Article 158: The High Court of Justice is competent to judge the Vice-President of the Republic and members of the Government, on account of acts qualified as crimes or offenses committed in the exercise of their official duties. Article 159: The High Court of Justice is bound by the definition of crimes and offenses as well as by the determination of sentences according to the penal law in force at the time the acts were committed. CHAPTER II. COMPOSITION Article 160: The High Court of Justice is composed of members elected among themselves in even numbers by the National Assembly and by the Senate, from the first session of the legislature. It is presided over by the President of the Supreme Court. CHAPTER III. ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING Article 161: Indictment of the President of the Republic, the Vice-President of the Republic and members of the Government is voted on by secret ballot by Parliament, by a two-thirds majority for the President of the Republic and by an absolute majority for the Vice-President of the Republic and members of the Government. Article 162: An organic law determines the number of members of the High Court of Justice, its responsibilities and rules of its functioning as well as the procedure followed before this Court.