The lower house has the final say on this bill, which has been debated with urgency.

The opposition said it will challenge the normative act with the Constitutional Court.

End-January, the Government approved an emergency ordinance which changed the way the pensions of former military personnel are calculated, after the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional a Government decision on recalculating the pensions of military staff, police officers and public servants with special status, who work in penitentiary administration.

Early June, Defense Minister Gabriel Oprea said the ministry completed the process recalculating military pensions on June 1.

Oprea said 90.2% of the 76,885 recalculated pensions are higher. He highlighted no pension lower than 3,000 lei (about EUR710), granted to full-career military staff, have been cut. (EUR1=RON4.2410)