MEETING European Commission experts held talks in
\nBucharest on Wednesday with a delegation of the Public Ministry led by general
\nprosecutor Augustin Lazar as part of the periodic information missions within
\nthe Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification (CVM). According to a communique
\nissued by the General Prosecutor’s Office, the main issues under discussion
\nwere the setting up of a section for the investigation of the crimes in the
\ncountry’s legal system as well as the amendments to the Penal and Penal
\nProcedure Codes and to Romania’s justice laws. We recall the European
\nCommission has been monitoring the latest developments in Romania’s legal
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WTO In the first semester of the next
\nyear, Romania and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are to be staging in
\nGeneva a conference on entrepreneurial issues, the Bucharest-based Ministry for
\nBusiness Environment, Trade and Entrepreneurship announced on Wednesday. The
\ndecision was made during the meeting the Romanian field minister Stefan Radu
\nOprea had in Geneva with Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo director general of the
\nWorld Trade Organization. The event will be unfolding under the aegis of the EU
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LAWS The offshore law, regulating gas exploitation in
\nthe Black Sea, was debated upon Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies’ plenary
\nsitting, that decided to send it back to the expert committees. The Social
\nDemocratic Party’s deputies introduced some important changes to the law adopted by the Senate last week. These amendments have been criticized by the opposition MPs
\nas well as by deputies of the coalition partner ALDE. Oil companies
\nhave expressed concern about the new offshore law, saying that it may
\ndiscourage new investment in the Black Sea. This
\nis the second time this law is being voted. The Parliament initially adopted
\nthe offshore law in early July, but president Klaus Iohannis sent it back for
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PROTESTS Hundreds of trade unionists
\nfrom the Romanian penitentiaries protested in front of the Justice Ministry’s
\nheadquarters on Wednesday, against the poor working conditions and the unpaid
\novertime. They say their protest is also against the indolence and
\nincompetence of the Justice Minister Tudorel Toader, and ask for the
\nresignation of the general director appointed unlawfully. <\/p>\n
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RULING Romania’s
\nConstitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a notification submitted by the
\ncountry’s president Klaus Iohannis, regarding the modifications to the Law on
\nthe Romanian territory’s administrative organisation, Agerpres news agency
\nreports. Iohannis had signaled the presence of some major dirfferences in terms
\nof legal content, between the versions passed by the two Parliament chambers. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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