Liviu Dragnea, about the offshore law: We’re doing simulations. I will discuss with Iulian Iancu, the president of the Industrial Commission, and with Eugen Teodorovici

„I was not losing anything if I was postponing for a week. Today and tomorrow we will have meetings again with Mr. Iancu and with other colleagues in the Parliament, and with Mr. Teodorovici, I will also ask Mr. ANR (Romanian Naval Authority) to come to the discussion, and Mr. to ANRM (National Agency for Mineral Resources) to make all the calculations so that we know exactly how much the Romanian state wins, both financially and in terms of resources. We try to do simulations, „said Chamber of Deputies President Liviu Dragnea in Parliament. He argued that the bill laying down some measures on the resources in the Black Sea is an important one, which „gives rise to exaggerated opinions”.

Source: MediaFax

Offshore law: USR lawmakers propose that royalties and taxes owed by offshore oil deal holders go into investment through the Pillar 2 pension

USR Lawmakers Cristina Pruna, Claudiu Năsui and Cristian Ghinea tabled an amendment to the Offshore Law, now under debate at the Chamber of Deputies, which stipulates that royalties and taxes on the extra income due to offshore oil holders go to investments in Romanians’ accounts of the Pension Pillar 2.

Source: Hotnews, Adevarul, G4Media

Romanian court says amendment to law sanctioning corruption is unconstitutional

The Constitutional Court (CCR) ruled on Tuesday, September 25, that an amendment to the law on sanctioning corruption offenses, which passed the Parliament vote in July, is unconstitutional. The amendment provided that certain acts of corruption should be punished only if the ones committing them get personal benefits, and not if someone else is the beneficiary, and only if the goods and benefits are exclusively “material,” local Mediafax reported.

Source: Romanis Insider