Romanian Officials Incompatible With Public Office Banned From Filling Public Positions For One Yr

According to the draft law approved by the Government, public officials' incompatibility with their position and the infringement of legal obligations regarding the conflict of interests are considered infractions and are punished accordingly.

The draft law also states that public officials who were relieved from duty due to office incompatibilities are banned from holding public office, except elective offices, for one year. If the respective officials are not holding a public position at the time they are found incompatible, the ban is enforced once the analysis report and the court's ruling confirming the case of incompatibility remain definitive.

The current ANI law sets that officials incompatible with their positions are banned from filling public office, except elective office, for three years.

Romania's Government Monday approved a draft law regulating the functioning of the National Integrity Agency, a EU-backed public anticorruption body, after a Constitutional Court ruling stripped it of its main attributions in screening public officials wealth and interest statements and recommending prosecution for wrongdoing.

The Court said 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.

If you liked this story, please follow MEDIAFAX.RO on FACEBOOK »

The content of mediafax.ro is for your information only. Republishing or using this content is forbidden without express consent of MEDIAFAX. For this consent, please ask for it by mail at vanzari@mediafax.ro.