Romanian President Promulgates Amended Law On Statute Of Public Servants

On June 23, Romania’s Chamber of Deputies adopted the articles of the report drafted by the Chamber’s committee for legal matters upon re-examining the law on the statute of public servants and the provisions declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court were eliminated from the report.

Deputies in the committee decided to eliminate several articles which targeted, among others, to introduce in the category of public servants the positions of „executive director and assistant executive director at the level of prefect offices, the apparatus of the public local authorities and public institutions in their subordination, the positions of director and assistant director within the public decentralized services of ministries and other special bodies of the central public administration within administrative-territorial units, as well as specific public positions assimilated to them.”

The Senate, as first chamber notified on the matter, rejected the reexamination of the law in its meeting on June 2, 2010.

The Constitutional Court checked the notification of unconstitutionality of the law amending Law 188/1999 on the Statute of public servants and ruled on April 14, 2010 that the amended Statute of public servants includes unconstitutional provisions, which go against the provisions of the Constitution of Romania, republished.