Romanian Antidrug Agency To Be Reorganized As Body Subordinated To Interior Min – Draft

According to the draft act, the agency will be staffed by employees transferred from the Romanian Police.

ANA will set antidrug policies and will provide integrated assistance of drug users. It will be allowed to make official information regarding its activity available to the public. The agency will be able to cooperate with public institutions, local and foreign non-governmental organizations, as well as with international organizations, reads the draft act.

The agency will also be tasked with drawing up the draft national antidrug strategy and its own activity plan, which will be sent to the Government for approval.

The ANA director, to be appointed through order of the interior minister, will coordinate national antidrug activities and will manage the agency’s funds to be ensured from the state budget, through the budget of the Interior Ministry, as well as from other sources, such as donations and sponsorship.

The draft decision is up for public debate until April 14.

Interior Minister Traian Igas said in February, during an assessment of the ministry’s 2010 activity, the National Antidrug Agency and the National Agency against Human Trafficking must be reorganized as independent bodies within the ministry so that the fight against crime will yield better results.