EC Report: Romania’s Pace Of Progress Has Not Been Maintained

"Although there have been some positive signals in judicial reform, results are difficult to demonstrate: the Government has finalized draft amendments to the existing draft Civil Code, a draft of the Criminal Code and drafts of the Criminal and Civil Procedures Codes, but they still need to be adopted,” the report stated, adding that the intentions of the High Council of Magistrates to accept more ownership for judiciary reform are encouraging but need to be translated into deeds.

 

In addition, the report states, access to and unification of jurisprudence, the accountability of magistrates, the human resources capacity and management of the judiciary still await improvement.

 

The National Integrity Agency has established an operational record of cases. This record needs to be maintained and the agency will need to demonstrate that it is able to extend its investigations without outside interference and with the full cooperation of other state authorities, the Commission said.

 

However, other shortcomings indentified in the last report, of July 2008, still persist.