Romanian Govt To Assume Responsibility For Criminal, Civil Codes In May – Democrat Liberal VP

He said at the end of the party’s National Standing Office that the government will take responsibility for the civil and criminal codes, and for their respective procedure codes in May.

Flutur said three of the codes will be subject to government debate.

Two parliamentary committees will be set up to analyze the four draft laws.

The Government talked about the four Codes last Wednesday and decided to approve three of them in next week’s meeting, namely the Criminal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Civil Procedure Code. The Civil Code will be approved in two weeks.

Government sources said the Executive wants debates on the Codes to end by May 1, so that they get Parliament approval by May 15.

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday at the presentation of the 2008 activity report of the High Council of Magistrates that the government needs to assume responsibility for the Criminal Code, the Civil Code and their respective procedure codes.

He also said the government should assume responsibility for the codes in Parliament by the lawmakers’ summer recess, to have them applied in 2010.
The government decided Tuesday to pull the codes from Parliament, where they were pending debate and approval.

The Justice Ministry explained the codes were pulled to avoid having the Parliament adopt them tacitly, as their term for debates in the Senate was to expire.