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Romanian Social Democrat Senators Won’t Vote On ANI Bill – Party Head

15:02, 23 Aug. 2010
Romanian social democrat senators will attend debates on the National Integrity Agency (ANI) bill, due to take place in the Senate on Tuesday, but will not vote on the bill, social democrat head Victor Ponta said Monday, after a meeting of the party’s National Standing Office.

Romania’s Lower Chamber Adopts National Integrity Agency Bill

17:45, 16 Aug. 2010
Romania’s Chamber of Deputies adopted Monday the draft law on the National Integrity Agency (ANI) with 204 to two votes and two abstentions.

Romanian Homeowners Paying Full Utilities Bill Exempt From Penalties

17:21, 02 Aug. 2010
Romanian Conservative Party (PC) vice-president Bogdan Ciuca announced Monday that a PC-sponsored law, which forgives the late-payment penalties of homeowners who pay their entire utilities debts within 12 months, has entered force.

Romanian President Calls On Parliament To Reexamine Public-Private Partnership Law

19:05, 23 Iul. 2010
Romania’s President Traian Basescu Friday sent to the Parliament a request to reexamine the law regulating the partnership between the public and the private sectors, saying that the Government emergency decree regarding public procurement contracts is more comprehensive than the law.

Romanian Homeowners Have 6 Months To Get Mandatory Home Insurance

12:37, 15 Iul. 2010
Romanian homeowners have six months to insure their homes, as the country’s law on mandatory home insurance has entered force.

Romanian President Rejects Law Extending Newborns’ Trousseau Until 2010

18:30, 09 Iul. 2010
Romanian President Traian Basescu has asked the Parliament to re-examine the law approving a Government Ordinance, which says the state will provide the equivalent of trousseaus for newborns until the end of 2010, as that act was repealed through the Government’s austerity plan.

Romania’s Deputies Adopt Articles Of Law Allowing Govt To Issue Decrees During Parliament Recess

15:00, 22 Iun. 2010
Romania's Chamber of Deputies Tuesday adopted the articles of the draft law allowing the Government to issue decrees during the Parliament recess, in sectors stipulated in the country’s Constitution, including the budget revision field, and a final vote will be cast on Thursday.

Romania To Introduce Pension, Healthcare Contributions For Copyright Income – Labor Min

15:44, 31 Mai 2010
Romania’s Labor Minister Mihai Seitan said Monday that the Ministry will draw up a draft law through which earners of copyright income will contribute to the pension, healthcare and unemployment benefit systems like all regular wage earners.

Romanian Constitution Article 53 Justifies Austerity Measures – PM

20:14, 30 Mai 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Sunday that article 53 of the Constitution was also used to justify the unpaid vacation measure adopted in 2009, whose constitutionality was confirmed by the Constitutional Court.

Romanian Parliament Enacts Integrity Agency Bill

14:42, 12 Mai 2010
Romanian senators on Wednesday adopted the bill regulating the country’s integrity agency, a EU-backed anticorruption body that was stripped of its main attributions last month.

Romanian Authorities Pledge Not To Uphold Personal Insolvency Bill

20:39, 10 Mai 2010
Romanian authorities said they will not uphold certain draft laws, such as the draft personal insolvency law, in order to strengthen the country’s financial stability, according to the Memorandum of Understanding between Romania and the IMF and EU.

Romanian President Calls For Quick Amendment Of Public Procurement Law

19:35, 06 Mai 2010
Romania’s public procurement law must be amended “quickly” so that procurement procedures become speedier and more transparent, President Traian Basescu said Thursday.

Romania’s Tourism, Development Min Works On New Town-Planning Law

13:03, 01 Mai 2010
Romania’s Tourism and Regional Development Minister Elena Udrea said Friday the ministry’s officials are working on a new construction law, as many of the country’s buildings were constructed illegally and triggered “town-planning disasters” countrywide.

Romanian Officials Incompatible With Public Office Banned From Filling Public Positions For One Yr

18:09, 28 Apr. 2010
Romania’s draft law regulating the activity of the National Integrity Agency (ANI) states public officials who prove to be incompatible with their position are banned from holding any public office, except elective offices, for one year.

Romanian Chamber Committee Votes To Endorse Integrity Agency Bill

16:43, 28 Apr. 2010
The Romanian Chamber of Deputies’ committee for legal matters on Wednesday adopted with 15 votes in favor and five abstentions a favorable report on the new law regulating the activity of the National Integrity Agency ANI.

Romanian Constitutional Court Says Govt Can’t Fix Anticorruption Body Law With Decree

14:53, 22 Apr. 2010
Romania’s Constitutional; Court said in the motivation of its ruling stripping the National Integrity Agency of its main attributions that the Government cannot pass an emergency decree to keep the agency functioning.

Romanian Govt Amends NATO Accession Law, Though Romania Has Been NATO Member Since 2004

09:41, 22 Apr. 2010
The draft law revising Romania’s Constitution stipulates that the country’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization needs two thirds of the votes cast in the single-chamber Parliament in order to be approved, although Romania has been a NATO member since March 2004.

Romanian Govt Amends National Housing Agency Functioning Norms

15:37, 21 Apr. 2010
Romania’s Government adopted Wednesday a decision to amend the norms regulating the functioning of the National Housing Agency, or ANL.

President Says Stripping Integrity Agency Of Its Role Hurts Romania

15:02, 20 Apr. 2010
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Tuesday the Constitutional Court’s decision to strip the country’s integrity agency of its main role may please some public officials but it does the country a great disfavor.

Romanian Govt Mulls Passing Emergency Decree To Allow Integrity Agency To Continue Activity

12:50, 16 Apr. 2010
Romania’s Government is considering passing an emergency decree to allow the country’s National Integrity Agency to continue functioning at EU-required standards unless it finds other legal ways, people close to the matter told MEDIAFAX Friday.

Romania Constitutional Court Strips Integrity Agency Of Its Main Attributions

10:16, 16 Apr. 2010
Romania’s National Integrity Agency, a EU-required institution, has been withdrawn its main attributions in screening public officials wealth and interest statements, following a Constitutional Court ruling.

Romania’s Personal Insolvency Law To Affect Good Payers, Banks To Up Interest Rates

13:01, 25 Mart. 2010
Romania’s personal insolvency law will work in favor of people who have overdue debts and to the detriment of good payers, as banks will set harsher loan conditions and increase interest rates, Association of Commercial Debt Management (AMCC) representatives said Thursday.

Romania Ctrl Bk: Banks Will Seek Additional Guarantees After Personal Insolvency Law Adoption

19:13, 23 Mart. 2010
The adoption of the personal bankruptcy law might force banks to require additional guarantees, which would restrict people's access to loans, Adrian Vasilescu, an adviser for the central bank governor, said Tuesday.

Romanian Senate Approves Personal Insolvency Law

14:49, 23 Mart. 2010
Romanian senators enacted Tuesday a legislative proposal on the insolvency of individuals, initiated by democrat liberal (PDL) senators and backed by all Parliament groups.

Romanian Govt Proposes Unitary Application For Wage Law, With The ’09 Salary Mass

15:25, 20 Mart. 2010
The Romanian Government approached unions with a draft emergency ordinance through which the salary system in the public sector would be applied in a unitary fashion for all staff categories, within a salary mass maintained at the 2009 level, said Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc.

Romanian State To Open EUR500 Education Accounts For Newborns – Draft Law

20:02, 16 Mart. 2010
The Romanian State will open for each newborn child an education fund representing the equivalent of EUR500 in lei, according to the new draft education law.

Romanian Democrat Liberal To Push Law Banning Human Cloning

15:35, 12 Mart. 2010
Romanian democrat liberal MP Mircia Giurgiu will file in Parliament a draft law banning human cloning and the applications of biomedicine that violate human dignity.

Romanian Cos File For Insolvency To Benefit From Law’s Advantages – Lawyer

13:31, 10 Mart. 2010
Romanian companies with debts have distorted the very purpose of insolvency and very often resort to the measure for its advantages, to shield themselves from foreclosure and from paying debt penalties, said Wednesday Dan Costinescu, partner at law firm Schoenherr si Asociatii.

Romanian Social Democrat Lawmakers Challenged Law On Public Servants’ Statute

15:13, 04 Mart. 2010
Romanian social democrat senator Dan Sova said Thursday that social democrats in the Chamber of Deputies notified Wednesday the Constitutional Court that the law on the Statute of Public Servants the Chamber has recently adopted is unconstitutional.

Romanian Social Democrats To Challenge Law Allowing Political Appointees At Decentralized Services

15:50, 02 Mart. 2010
Romania’s opposition Social Democratic Party will challenge the draft law on the Statute of Public Servants in the Constitutional Court, arguing the law allows political appointments at the helm of the country's decentralized state institutions, social democrat lawmaker Mircea Dusa said Tuesday.

Romanian Senate Approves Amendment To Statute Of Privates And NCOs

20:54, 22 Feb. 2010
The Romanian Senate adopted Monday a draft law amending Law 384/2006 on the Statute of privates and non-commissioned officers, with Defense Minister Gabriel Oprea endorsing the draft in the Senate’s plenum.

Romanian Child Allowance Cap Considered For „Active Solidarity” – PM

16:26, 19 Feb. 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Friday regarding the draft law on children’s state allowances that the intention is not to save money “at the expense of children” but to apply active solidarity, adding the right to an allowance is acknowledged, but the state decides the sum.

About 10% Of Romania’s Special Pensions To See Avg Reduction Of EUR1,500 – Labor Min

15:41, 18 Feb. 2010
About 10% of special pensions in Romania could be reduced by an average EUR1,500 following recalculation under the new pension law, but reduction could be by as much as 80%, Labor Minister Mihai Seitan said Thursday, adding magistrates, aviators and diplomats would be the most affected.

Romania To Ready In Feb Draft Law Introducing Healthcare Co-Payment – Health Minister

13:11, 10 Feb. 2010
Romania’s Health Ministry will complete this month an IMF-required normative act introducing a co-payment system for public healthcare services, minister Cseke Attila said Wednesday, adding the law should have been completed by December 2009.

Romania To Exempt Cos Hiring Jobless People From Paying Social Security

14:15, 08 Feb. 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Monday the Government is set to issue a normative act by the end of the month temporarily exempting companies hiring unemployed people from paying social security.

Romanian Draft Unitary Public Pension Law Establishes Individual Categories, Contribution Levels

15:51, 26 Ian. 2010
Romanian individuals with an annual income worth more than four average gross wages, including those with income from copyright, civil agreements or collaboration contracts, will have to pay social security contributions, according to the draft unitary pension law, up for public debate.

Romanian Liberals To Push Draft Law On Postal Voting

16:45, 20 Ian. 2010
The Romanian liberals, in opposition, will propose a draft law on the introduction of postal voting for Romanians abroad, and the creation of a committee for the improvement of election legislation, liberal vice-president Ludovic Orban told MEDIAFAX.

Romania PM Calls On Lawmakers To Debate Fiscal Liability Law With Urgency

17:58, 29 Dec. 2009
Romania’s Prime Minister Emil Boc on Tuesday said the fiscal liability law will be approved by the government and sent to Parliament, and called on lawmakers to debate the draft with urgency.

Social Democrat Contender: Romania Will Achieve Law And Order After Dec 6 Runoff

19:20, 29 Nov. 2009
Romanian social democrat presidential contender Mircea Geoana on Sunday said he is confident the "structures within the country’s Interior Ministry will fairly oversee the second round of presidential elections," adding “law and order will be brought back, including within the ministry."

Romanian Senators Adopt Law Protecting Consumer’s Right To Annul Contract

14:24, 25 Nov. 2009
Romanian senators adopted Wednesday a law whereby the consumer’s right to challenge or annul a contract may not be prevented or obstructed by any contractual clause or agreement, but that such clauses are considered naturally void.