”AmCham Romania calls for constructive dialogue and substantiated consultations with all relevant actors, for the balance of powers within the state, independence of justice, increasing the capacity of good governance and combating corruption and abuse of power”.
According to AmCham, the state must ensure a transparent debate on the justice law package, based on modern policies and good practices in the field, structural reshaping and modernization of systemic institutional mechanisms through the establishment of effective instruments of democratic control and equilibrium that guarantee the separation of power within the state, ensuring autonomy, ethics and integrity in order to protect the general interest.
Other measures that should be implemented aim to ”ensure an independent and effective justice within the constitutional framework, free of partisan interference, politicization and enclaves, modernize the organization and functioning laws of the main state institutions,adopt a consensual multi-generational country model for a prosperous Romania with a vibrant and competitive identity, common values and sustainable performance areas, a regional and European stability anchor, and a predictable and credible strategic partner, and they also target the pragmatic implementation of good governance rules, especially with regard to transparency and predictability at all levels of the legislative process, structural reforms to strengthen the rule of law and institutional modernization.
AmCham also calls for avoiding any political, economic, justice and media interference, the release of arbitrary filters operation, resolution of major cases of corruption and tax evasion, without abuse and inappropriate influences, with emphasis on the conditions of legality, effective and timely recovery of damages and prevention.
Romania’s Justice Minister Tudorel Toader on Wednesday presented some propositions to amend the judicial system, but President Klaus Iohannis called his propositions an attack on the rule of law that would set the country back a decade.