Romanian Deputies Voted Initial Content Of Law On Nationalized Houses

Eugen Nicolicea, who presided the meeting, explained that after the voting, the law would be submitted again to the head of state under its initial content.
The Chamber of Deputies is the decider on the normative act.

The content of law initially submitted to the head of state for promulgation, which remains valid after the deputies’ votes on Wednesday, stipulates that houses seized during the communism era based on the provisions of law 112/1995 cannot be returned in kind. 

Moreover, the lands corresponding to the houses seized during the communism era based on law 112 cannot be returned in kind either.

The law also stipulates that the people who received compensations based on Law 112 can request the restitution in kind if the house was not sold until the coming into the force of the new law and only after they return the sums granted as compensations, which are updated in accordance with the inflation index.

Tenants who bought buildings based on Law 112 and whose sale contracts were terminated based on court rulings are the first entitled to homes provided by the local councils or by the Ministry of Development, Public Works and Housing.

The money paid by these people to buy nationalized houses, which were subsequently returned to their owners, represents, at the current market value, the downpayment for a new home they are entitled to buy from the state.

In August, the head of state urged lawmakers to reexamine the law amending the normative act regarding the houses seized during the communism era, saying the law offers no solutions whatsoever, adding it is only a source of illegal gains.

Basescu explained at the time that, under Law 112, this type of properties were sold at book value, while the law sent for promulgation stipulates compensations to be paid by the state at the market price.

The amendment brought to the law on nationalized houses, adopted by the Chamber of Deputies late June, was initiated by the Conservative Party (PC) and stipulates the houses seized during the communist regime and subsequently sold by the state will no longer be returned in kind and the rightful owners will be paid compensations.

Conservative leader Dan Voiculescu urged Basescu to pass this law, stressing it neither excludes nor ignores the owners, as they will be paid compensations for the houses they once owned until seized by the communists.

 

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