Romania Integrity Agency Law Under Debate In Chamber Of Deputies Wednesday
The new draft law regulating the activity of the National Integrity Agency (ANI), which was approved by the Romanian Government in its meeting Monday, will be under debate in the Chamber of Deputies’ plenary meeting on Wednesday, Chamber’s democrat liberal secretary Dumitru Pardau said Tuesday.
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Romania Integrity Agency Law Under Debate In Chamber Of Deputies Wednesday
Pardau on Tuesday said the members of the Chamber's Standing Office decided with seven votes in favor and one against that the Chamber's committee for legal matters will analyze the draft law Wednesday at noon.
"The Chamber's Standing Office decided that amendments to the draft law will be submitted until April 28, at 10 a.m., and the report of the committee for legal matters will be ready on April 28, until 12 p.m., to be further debated upon in the Chamber's plenary meeting", Pardau. Explained.
The Chamber's Standing Office took note of President Traian Basescu's letter, whereby he called on the country's Government coalition parties to ensure majority in Parliament to adopt the new draft law regulating the activity of the integrity agency.
The president said that, if ANI does not become functional, discussions on Romania's joining the Schengen area could be impaired by the country's continued monitoring under the European Commission's Cooperation and Verification Mechanism.
The head of state said he wishes the Parliament would solve the problem regarding the agency in ten days.
Basescu met Monday with representatives of parliamentary parties for talks on the Constitutional Court ruling which stripped the country's integrity agency of its main attributions in screening public officials' wealth and interest statements and recommending prosecution for wrongdoing.
Romania's integrity agency, a EU-backed public anticorruption body, has been stripped of its main attributions in screening public officials wealth and interest statements, following a Constitutional Court ruling. The Court, which motivated its decision last week, the integrity agency's law is unconstitutional, as it breaches the right to privacy and does not apply the presumption of innocence to those investigated.
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