Transcript CONSULTATION PROCESS IN ROMANIA

IRINA VILCU
CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
(CSDF) ROMANIA
 Consultation is defined as citizen involvement in
management of public decisions.
The adoption of 1 % Law
 The adoption of 1 % Law has been considered one of
the major achievements of Romanian NGO sector in
last few years. It was included as amendment to the
Fiscal Code.
 The whole process of forming a coalition on this issue ,
advocacy campaign took place in a very short time.
 The result that the 1% law was approved.
Obstacles to public consultation in Romania:
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Public authority only administrates but does not develop.
Lack competence and expertise of public authorities’ staff.
Lack of citizens’ trust in the public authorities.
Poor management of the consultations process (the lack of
planning and information provided to NGOs before the
beginning of the process, no qualified staff to properly
know how to organize such public consultation).
 Lack of transparency within the public administration.
Conclusions
 0.05 of recommendations on draft regulation/decision
have been made by the public.
 0.004 of meetings on draft
regulation/decision/legislative act have been
organized at the request of NGOs.
 0.32 of public hearings requested by the law for each
draft regulation have been organized in 2005 .
Conclusion
In Romania, consultation process represents a new
element in the administrative practice and public
administration has a series of difficulties in
implementation of this.
The most common difficulty encountered is:
”We are in an incipient stage of legislation
implementation.”