I. During the sitting of 9 December 2020, within the a posteriori constitutional review, unanimously, the Constitutional Court issued the following admission decisions:
- It upheld the objection of unconstitutionality filed by the President of Romania and found the unconstitutionality of the Law amending and supplementing Law No 407/2006 on hunting and wild animals protection, as a whole.
- It upheld the objection of unconstitutionality filed by the President of Romania and found the unconstitutionality of the Law on the chambers for agriculture, food industry, fish farming, forestry and rural development, as a whole.
- It upheld the objection of unconstitutionality filed by the Government of Romania and found the unconstitutionality of the Law granting a risk incentive to teaching staff in the context of the pandemic generated by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as a whole.
II. Furthermore, by a majority vote, the Constitutional Court dismissed the objection of unconstitutionality filed by the Government of Romania and found that the Law dismissing Government Emergency Ordinance No 166/2020 amending Law No 173/2020 on certain measures to protect economic national interests was unconstitutional as a whole in relation to the pleas filed.
The decisions are final and generally binding.
The arguments retained as grounds for the solutions delivered by the Plenum of the Constitutional Court shall be presented in the decisions to be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I.
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III. During the same sitting, the Court ordered the postponement of the deliberations with regard to the following objections of unconstitutionality:
– for 16 December 2020 – the referral of unconstitutionality filed by the President of Romania concerning the Law amending Article 7 of the National Education Law No 1/2011;
– for 13 January 2021 – the referral of unconstitutionality filed by the Government of Romania concerning the provisions of the Law approving Government Emergency Ordinance No 31/2020 supplementing Government Emergency Ordinance No 77/2011 on the establishment of a contribution to finance health expenditure;
– for 26 January 2021 – the referral of unconstitutionality filed by Deputies belonging to the Parliamentary Group of the National Liberal Party concerning the Law amending and supplementing Government Ordinance No 51/1997 on leasing operations and leasing companies;
– for 28 January 2021 – the referral of unconstitutionality filed by Deputies belonging to the Parliamentary Group of the National Liberal Party concerning the Law for the protection of consumers against excessive interest rates.
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