Administrative Law / Droit administratif
2009
Romania / Roumanie
Lucica Matei
Professor Dr. at the Faculty of Public Administration,
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
The chronicle focuses on two important aspects reflected in the governmental actions, carried out in Romania in 2009. The first aspect refers to the systemic transformation and reconstruction of the legislative, institutional and organisational framework for the central government, respectively the changes at the level of organisation and operation of public authorities and institutions. Reducing the administrative tasks, simplifying the administrative procedures, simplifying the national legislation, effective application of Community legislation are reflected on the one hand in the specific, new passed or amended legislation and on the other hand in the concrete Government’s actions. The second aspect refers to the electoral actions, characterising the year 2009, namely the elections for the European Parliament - for Romania, 2009 represented the moment for election of the citizens’ representatives in the European Parliament for the second time as an EU Member State - and presidential elections. In the same context, in Romania a referendum was held for the first time for reducing the number of Parliament members and passing to a Parliament with a single Chamber.
