Tuesday, March 1, 2011

ROMANIA - Human rights are the law

Bucharest's no rule on that of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). On 23 February, the Chamber of Deputies passed a law requiring "the government to respect human rights," National rapporteJurnalul. Now, every law must be accompanied by a study assessing its effects on fundamental rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.

The government is also obliged to implement the recommendations and rulings of the ECHR within three months, the jurisprudence of the Court winning. According to the report date of the Strasbourg Court, quoted by Romanian media, Romania has been an EU member state most often sentenced in 2009 to 139 times.

Between 1998 and 2009, she had to pay more than 31 million euros in fines.

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