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| IMPORTANT LAWS UNDER DEBATE 23/04/2009 |
| (2009-04-23) |
| Last updated: 2009-04-24 16:59 EET |
Romania’s civil and criminal codes, reformed for the first time after 1989, will be submitted to Parliament for debate by May the 15th, while the deadline for the codes of procedure has been extended to autumn, as the government is no longer assuming responsibility for the four pieces of legislation. This was the compromise reached on Wednesday by the governing parties.
The Liberal Democratic Party first called for the initial deadline of May the 15th to be observed, while the Social Democratic Party wanted an extension of the deadline. The opinion of the Liberal Democratic Party is shared by President Traian Basescu. He says Romania cannot afford a new critical monitoring report from the European Commission in July, as the European Union has specifically asked for progress in the reform of the judiciary. Traian Basescu:
“We must understand that the deadline of May the 15th is an important date for the civil and criminal codes because the first evaluation of the European Commission starts on the 4th of May, the second on the 19th of May, while the final report will be made public in July. It would be a pity, after all the efforts involved in drafting these codes, not to put them through the vote or for the government not to assume responsibility for them, at least as far as the civil and criminal codes are concerned.”
However, representatives of civil society from the Stop the Codes coalition managed to aggravate the president at a meeting at the Cotroceni Palace, by saying that the bills had not been properly debated by the public. They left the meeting unsatisfied, despite a promise by Traian Basescu that he would hold consultations with the parties and would take certain amendments into consideration. The Social Democratic Party is also opposed to the emergency adoption of the codes. The leader of this party, Mircea Geoana said:
“We believe that a solid debate, by the public and in Parliament, is the right approach, and hope that president Basescu will have a more nuanced position at the meeting with this coalition, as he was the one who imposed and supported this deadline as indispensable to the country’s relationship with the European Union, something which has been proved not to be the case.”
The passing of the codes without being first submitted to public debate would be a mistake, says the representative of the Centre for Juridical Resources in Romania, Radu Nicolae:
“We can amend the codes, but this doesn’t mean the consultation process is real. We can suggest certain amendments, but this is not a genuine consultation process, but last minute patchwork”.
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