Romanian Min Deems EC Report Obsolete, Points To Prosecutors’ Silence In Ex-Sport Min Case

Ponta said he has the EC draft report which will be published Wednesday.

He said the document highlights the progress in the justice sector, but decides to continue surveillance, with the remark that the next report will be issued in the summer of 2010.

Ponta wondered why does monitoring have to go on if things are working well in this sector. If the premise is that things are not going well, the report does not specify what Romania should do to solve the problems, he added.

Ponta said the report praises the adoption of the Criminal Code and the Civil Code.

From the perspective of a dignitary who worked on the Criminal Code, he can say that the clerks in Brussels who praised the adoption of the Criminal Code in the report had not read the respective law.

“We have a report which says nothing else except that the next one will be issued next year,” Ponta said.

Ponta emphasized that the report says nothing about the silence of the National Anticorruption Department, otherwise praised by the European Commission, in the scandal which broke out over a month ago, in which former youth and sport minister Monica Iacob Ridzi is involved.

On July 17, Romanian President Traian Basescu signed the decrees promulgating the country’s new Civil Code and Criminal Code.

The Romanian government assumed responsibility in Parliament for the Criminal and Civil Codes on June 22.