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Iohannis: I saw yesterday some politicians' satisfaction in seeing CCR ruling on fines; a sign of recklessness

President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday that the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its 'acolytes' are doing all possible for authorities' effort to fail in respect to managing the current crisis. He labeled the CCR view as "surprising" and maintained that, without the sanctions imposed during the state of emergency, there would have been more deaths.

PM Orban on court decision on emergency fines: It shocks me, it is patently political

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban declared himself "shocked" on Wednesday by the Constitutional Court's decision to accept an Ombudsman's notification of a government emergency ordinance regulating fines issued under in state of emergency for the enforcement of the coronavirus lockdown.

UPDATE Court rules criminal code amendments unconstitutional

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on Monday sustained constitutionality objections filed by the opposition Save Romania Union (USR), National Liberal Party (PNL) and President Klaus Iohannis over Parliament's amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, CCR officials have told AGERPRES.

CCR says 2019 state budget law is constitutional

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) rejected on Wednesday the notification of President Klaus Iohannis regarding the state budget Law on 2019, establishing that the normative act is constitutional, officials of the CCR told AGERPRES. AGERPRES (RO - author: Mihai Stoica, editor: Florin Marin; EN - author: Rodica State, editor: Cristina Zaharia)

JusMin Toader says there is no CCR decision that is not observed

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader mentioned on Thursday that there is no decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) which doesn't produce legal effects and isn't observed, a statement made in the context in which the CCR established that there is a conflict between powers regarding the denial to remove from office the chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Dire

Cyber-security Law violates private life, secrecy of correspondence (Constitutional Court motivation)

The Law on cyber security violates the constitutional provisions regarding the rule of law and the principle of legality, as well as the ones regarding the intimate, family and private life, the secrecy of correspondence, respectively, says the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR).

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APADOR-CH and ApTI launch procedures to support cancellation of cyber security law

The Human Rights Association in Romania - the Helsinki Committee (APADOR-CH) and the Association for Technology and Internet (ApTI) on Monday filed a so-called "amicus curiae" brief to the Constitutional Court of Romania [CCR], in which they support the constitutional objection that was previously raised by the PNL [National Liberal Party] MPs with respect to the Law No.580/2014 on cyber securi