Romanian Parliament Adopts Reexamined Civil Servants Statute

The chamber on Tuesday adopted the articles of the report. At the final vote Wednesday, the bill passed with 262 votes in favor and one abstention.

Democrat liberal Gabriel Andronache, secretary of the Chamber's committee for legal matters, said deputies in the committee were notified of the request for the reexamination of the law amending Law 188/1999 on the Statute of public servants, adopted by Parliament on March 2, following a Constitutional Court ruling of April 14, 2010.

According to Andronache, the members of the committee for legal matters unanimously decided to propose to the chamber's plenum the adoption of the law, with amendments. The committee brought the law in line with the Constitutional Court ruling and all articles declared unconstitutional were eliminated.

Deputies in the committee decided to eliminate several articles which targeted, among others, to introduce in the category of public servants the positions of "executive director and assistant executive director at the level of prefect offices, the apparatus of the public local authorities and public institutions in their subordination, the positions of director and assistant director within the public decentralized services of ministries and other special bodies of the central public administration within administrative-territorial units, as well as specific public positions assimilated to them."

The Constitutional Court checked the notification of unconstitutionality of the law amending Law 188/1999 on the Statute of public servants and ruled on April 14, 2010 that the amended Statute of public servants includes unconstitutional provisions, which go against the provisions of the Constitution of Romania, republished.

The Romanian Senate, as first chamber notified on the matter, rejected the reexamination of the law in its meeting on June 2, 2010.

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