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Romanian Senate Rejects Solidarity Tax Targeting Financial, Lending Institutions

11:55, 27 Apr. 2011
The Romanian Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill introducing a 2.5% solidarity tax on the profit of financial and lending institutions, which was put forward by several ruling democrat liberal lawmakers.

Romanian Senate Rejects Bill On Internet Pornography

19:19, 26 Apr. 2011
The Romanian Senate on Tuesday rejected a bill preventing and fighting internet pornography, as the draft normative act did not garner sufficient votes for approval.

Romanian Health Insurance House Placed Under Parliament Control – Bill

15:19, 06 Apr. 2011
Romania's Senate on Wednesday adopted a bill amending Law 95/2006, on healthcare reform, placing the National Health Insurance House (CNAS) under the Parliament's control.

Romanian Senate Passes Bill Raising Hospital Food Funds By 30%

14:10, 30 Mart. 2011
Romania’s Senate on Wednesday adopted a bill raising funding for food served to patients in hospitals by over 30%, to cover inflation and the five percentage point hike in the sales tax.

Romanian Senate Rejects Tax Exemption For Pensions Below RON2,000

19:04, 28 Mart. 2011
The Romanian Senate on Monday approved with 62 to 55 votes President Traian Basescu’s request to reexamine the bill whereby pensions lower or equal to 2,000 lei (EUR1=RON4.1065) will be exempt from income tax, after the request was put to the vote again.

Romanian Senate Committee Supports Food Content Info Dots

16:19, 22 Mart. 2011
The Romanian Senate’s health committee on Tuesday approved a bill whereby food products will have a green, orange or red dot on their wrappers or labels, according to the type and amount of food additives they contain.

Romanian Senate Rejects Bill Legalizing Prostitution

16:23, 02 Mart. 2011
Romania's Senate on Tuesday rejected a bill legalizing sexual services, but a number of MPs admitted that the phenomenon of prostitution needs a legal framework.

Romanian Senate Adopts Bill Implementing Criminal Code

14:05, 02 Mart. 2011
The Romanian Senate on Wednesday adopted the draft law implementing the Criminal Code and amending a series of normative acts on criminal matters.

Romanian Senate Committee Rejects Bill Requiring Psychological Exam For Public Candidates

13:44, 01 Mart. 2011
The Romanian Senate's committee for human rights on Tuesday issued a negative opinion on a bill requiring candidates for public office to undergo a psychological and psychiatric examination.

Romanian Senate Committee Rejects Decree Recalculating Military Pensions

13:08, 01 Mart. 2011
The committee for legal matters in the Romanian Senate on Tuesday recommended the Senate plenary reject a Government emergency decree recalculating pensions of former military staff.

Romanian Senate Tacitly Adopts Child-Rearing Benefit Decree

12:48, 23 Feb. 2011
Romania’s Senate adopted tacitly Wednesday an emergency decree regulating child-rearing benefits, which have been differentiated depending on the duration of maternity leave.

Romanian Senate Validates 8 Magistrates Council Members

10:51, 15 Feb. 2011
Romania’s Senate validated Monday the eight members of the High Council of Magistrates whose candidacy the Constitutional Court ruled legal.

Romanian Senate Rejects Bill Renaming Roma As Gypsies

13:27, 09 Feb. 2011
Romanian senators on Wednesday rejected 51 to 27 votes and five abstentions a bill that would have renamed the country’s Roma minority internally as “gypsies”.

Romanian Senate Committee Approves Copayment System For Public Healthcare

13:56, 08 Feb. 2011
Romania’s Senate committee for healthcare on Tuesday endorsed the bill introducing a copayment system for public healthcare services.

Romanian Senate Committee Rejects Bill Forcing Radios To Play Romanian Music

13:14, 08 Feb. 2011
Romania’s Senate committee for culture on Tuesday recommended that the plenum reject a bill that would force local radio stations to play Romanian music for 40% of their music playing air time.

Romanian Senators Draft Bill Obliging Public Office Candidates To Undergo Psychiatric Examinations

14:42, 06 Feb. 2011
Five Romanian senators have drafted a bill requiring psychological and psychiatric examinations of all candidates for public office, including presidential candidates.

Romanian Constitutional Court To Rule On Magistrates Council New Member List Jan 19

12:56, 03 Ian. 2011
The Romanian Constitutional Court will rule on a notification brought to the recently validated list of new High Council of Magistrates (CSM) members on January 19.

Romanian Senate Validates New High Council Of Magistrates Members

11:53, 22 Dec. 2010
The Romanian Senate on Wednesday validated with 64 to 60 votes the list of the new members of the High Council of Magistrates (CSM).

Romanian Senate To Debate Education Bill Monday

15:02, 23 Nov. 2010
Romania’s Senate will debate the education bill, in the form endorsed by the education committee, in plenary meeting Monday, the Senate’s standing office decided Tuesday.

Romanian Parliament Ratifies IMF Letter Of Intent Signed In June

13:35, 23 Nov. 2010
Romania’s Senate Tuesday adopted with 55 votes in favor and 49 votes against the draft law ratifying the Government's letter of intent to the stand-by agreement between Romania and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Romanian Senate Adopts Bill Setting Flat Tax At 10%

12:39, 23 Nov. 2010
Romania’s Senate adopted Tuesday with 45 to 31 votes and eight abstentions a draft law drawn up by ruling democrat liberals, which reduces the flat tax to 10%, from 16%.

Romanian Senate Rejects Decree Cutting Heating Aid For Owners Of Multiple Homes

16:14, 16 Nov. 2010
Romania’s Senate on Tuesday rejected a government emergency decree that denied heating subsidies to people who own more than one home, cars with an engine capacity exceeding 1,600 cubic meters or hold bank deposits of over 3,000 lei (EUR1=RON4.2912).

Romanian Senate Rejects President Basescu’s Pension Bill Reexamination Request

13:35, 10 Nov. 2010
Romania’s Senate Wednesday rejected President Traian Basescu’s request to reexamine the country’s unitary pension bill.

Romanian Senate Raises Its Budget For 2011 By 30%

13:21, 02 Nov. 2010
The Romanian Senate adopted Tuesday with 86 votes in favor, two against and two abstentions its budget for 2011, which amounts to 127,900,000 lei (EUR1=RON4.2848), up about 30% compared to its budget for this year.

Romanian Senate Labor Committee Adopts Several Amendments To Revised Pension Bill

19:23, 26 Oct. 2010
The Romanian Senate’s labor committee Tuesday adopted, with amendments, a favorable report on the pension bill, which was sent back to Parliament for reexamination by President Traian Basescu.

Romanian Senate Labor Committee Votes To Lower Retirement Age For Both Men, Women

15:40, 26 Oct. 2010
The Romanian Senate's labor committee Tuesday adopted with six to three votes and one abstention an amendment to the country’s pension bill, which sets at 64 the retirement age for men and at 60 the retirement age for women.

Romanian Senate’s Legal Committee Agrees With Reexamination Of More Pension Bill Articles

16:15, 20 Oct. 2010
The Romanian Senate’s committee for legal matters decided Wednesday that more articles of the country’s unitary pension bill will be reexamined, besides the article indicated by President Traian Basescu in his reexamination request.

Romanian Senate To Re-Discuss Pension Law Early November

12:01, 19 Oct. 2010
The standing office of the Romanian Senate decided Tuesday the pension bill, which the head of state sent back to Parliament for reexamination, will be discussed in a plenary session early November.

Romanian Senate Standing Bureau Denies Emergency Procedure For Pension Reform

12:17, 12 Oct. 2010
Romania’s ruling Democratic Liberal Party asked the Senate’s standing bureau Tuesday to approve an urgency procedure for the reexamination of the pension bill, but the opposition-dominated bureau rejected the request.

Romanian Govt To Seek Confidence Vote In Parl To Pass Education Bill Unless Adopted By Senate

15:13, 04 Oct. 2010
Romania’s Government will seek a confidence vote in Parliament to pass the education bill if the Senate fails to adopt the bill in the next seven to ten days, Adriean Videanu, vice-president of the country’s ruling Democratic Liberal Party said Monday.

Romanian Tax Auth To Foreclose People With Overdue Health Contributions – Bill

13:45, 29 Sept. 2010
The Romanian Senate on Wednesday adopted 61 to three votes and one abstention a normative act empowering the country’s tax authority ANAF to foreclose private individuals who fail to pay contributions to the Social Health Insurance Fund in due time.

Romania Senate: Child-Rearing Benefits To Be Paid Within 60 Days Since Submission Of Applications

20:22, 27 Sept. 2010
Romanian senators on Monday decided the payment of child-rearing benefits and state allowances for children will be made within 60 days since the submission of applications.

Romanian Senate Introduces Special Income Tax Deductions For People With Low Income

15:03, 15 Sept. 2010
Romanian senators Wednesday adopted a draft law amending the Fiscal Code, whereby people whose monthly gross income does not exceed 1,000 lei (EUR1=RON4.2394) will enjoy overall income tax deductions, depending on the number of people in their care.

Romanian Senate Adopts Bill On Public Financing For Accredited Private Schools

20:25, 14 Sept. 2010
Romania’s Senate adopted Tuesday a bill according to which accredited private pre-university education units would be financed mainly from the state and local budgets.

Romanian Senate Committee Rejects Draft Law On Fortune-Telling, Witchcraft

12:48, 07 Sept. 2010
The Romanian Senate’s committee for legal matters Tuesday rejected a draft normative act drawn up by several democrat liberal lawmakers, who proposed that fortune-telling and witchcraft should be included among freelance activities and taxed.

Romanian Senate Adopts Law On Public-Private Partnership, Law On Attorney Profession

19:26, 24 Aug. 2010
Romania’s Senate adopted Tuesday the Law on public-private partnership and the amended Law concerning the attorney profession.

Romanian Senate Adopts Govt Ordinance Amending Law On Local Public Finances

19:11, 24 Aug. 2010
Romania’s Senate adopted Tuesday the draft law approving the Government Emergency Ordinance amending the Law on local public finances, with 66 votes for and 50 against.

Romanian Senate Adopts Govt Ordinance On Hospital Decentralization

19:10, 24 Aug. 2010
Romania’s Senate approved Tuesday Government Emergency Ordinance 48/2010, on the decentralization of hospitals, together with certain amendments proposed by the committee for health matters and supported by Health Minister Cseke Attila.

Romania’s Senate Approves Law Speeding Up Trials

18:46, 24 Aug. 2010
Romania’s Senate Tuesday adopted the bill on speeding up trials with 76 to 37 votes and one abstention.

Romanian Senate Adopts National Integrity Agency Bill As Approved By Lower Chamber

18:18, 24 Aug. 2010
Romania’s Senate adopted Tuesday the National Integrity Agency (ANI) bill in the form put forward by the Chamber of Deputies, with 78 votes in favor and one abstention, after rejecting the amendment exempting union leaders from the obligation to submit wealth statements.