PRESS RELEASE, 9 March 2022

At the hearing of 9 March 2022, the Constitutional Court, in the context of the review of laws prior to promulgation, unanimously decided:

dismissed, as unfounded, the objection of unconstitutionality formulated by a number of 54 Deputies and by 26 Senators belonging to the parliamentary group of the Save Romania Union and found that the provisions of Articles 3-6, Articles 8-10 and Article 12 of the Law on the dismantling of the Section for investigating criminal offences within the judiciary, as well as for the amendment of Law No 135/2010 on the Criminal Procedure Code, as well as the law as a whole, were constitutional in relation to the criticisms made;

– dismissed, as inadmissible, the objection of unconstitutionality of the Law on the dismantling of the Section for investigating criminal offences within the judiciary, as well as for the amendment of Law No 135/2010 on the Criminal Procedure Code, objection formulated by a number of 35 Deputies belonging to the parliamentary groups of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians and of the Social Democratic Party, as well as by 5 Senators belonging to the parliamentary group of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians.

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The decisions are final and generally binding.

The arguments set out in the grounds for the decisions of the Constitutional Court will be presented in the decisions, which will be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I.

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