Press Release, 3 March 2021

I. During its sitting of 3 March 2021, within the a priori constitutional review, by a majority vote, the Constitutional Court dismissed, as groundless, the objection of unconstitutionality raised by 51 Deputies belonging to the parliamentary group of the Save Romania Union, to the parliamentary group of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania, as well as by unaffiliated Deputies, and found the constitutionality, in relation to the pleas filed, of the Law amending and supplementing Law No 335/2007 on the Romanian Chambers of Commerce.

II. During the same sitting, within the a posteriori constitutional review, by a majority vote, the Constitutional Court upheld the exception of unconstitutionality and found the unconstitutionality of the legislative solution in Article 539 of the Criminal Procedure Code, excluding the right to compensation in the case of an unlawful deprivation of liberty ordered during a criminal trial settled through non-indictment or acquittal.

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The decisions are final and generally binding.

The arguments retained as grounds for the solutions delivered by the Constitutional Court shall be presented in the decisions, to be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I.

 

The External Relations, Press and Protocol Department of the Constitutional Court of Romania