EC Report: Romania Must Prove Efficiency By Speeding Up Treatment Of High-Level Corruption Cases

Romania must demonstrate its legal system is capable of implementing laws in an independent and efficient manner by adopting the remaining laws needed to modernize the judiciary and by showing expeditious treatment of high-level corruption cases.

 

The Commission added that the next report, to be released in the summer of 2009, will show to which extent Romania has been able to successfully address the shortcomings identified in the reform of the legal system and to produce convincing and tangible results in the fight against corruption.

 

"It will be crucial for Romania to achieve significant, irreversible progress by then. Romania must demonstrate the existence of an autonomously functioning, stable judiciary which is able to detect and sanction corruption and preserve the rule of law. This means in particular adopting the remaining laws needed to modernize the legal system and showing through an expeditious treatment of high-level corruption cases that the legal system is capable of implementing the laws in an independent and efficient way,” the report states.