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Non-discrimination law	Romanița Elena Iordache	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Romania - Romanian national equality body fines the Romanian President for discriminatory statements against nomadic Roma (PDF 63 kB)

NCCD forced by the High Court to fine the Romanian President for discriminatory statements against nomadic Roma after the NCCD initially declined its competence on grounds of lacking jurisdiction

Publication date: 7 March 2014. Topics

Romania - New Criminal Code enters into force on 1 February 2014 (PDF 58 kB)

New provisions relevant for non-discrimination enter into force on 1 February 2014

Publication date: 14 February 2014. Topics

Romania - New text proposed by the parliamentary committee for the revision of the Constitution removes sexual orientation as protected ground and replaces previously agreed term ‘disability’ with ‘handicap’ (PDF 52 kB)

List of protected grounds in equality and non-discrimination clause and failure to provide standing for national equality body to seize Constitutional Court in cases of discrimination entailed by laws

Publication date: 14 February 2014. Topics

Romania - High Court rejects final appeal of the Baia Mare mayor attacking the NCCD sanction of the segregation wall erected in the city (PDF 64 kB)

Appeal against national equality body sanctioning of a wall segregating Roma blocks of flats from Baia Mare

Publication date: 21 January 2014. Topics

Romania - High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal order the NCCD to issue an adequate sanction in case of former Minister of Foreign Affairs (PDF 65 kB)

NCCD sanctions in case of racist remarks were deemed as not adequate – the High Court sent the case back to the Court of Appeal which ordered the NCCD to issue an administrative sanction against former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Publication date: 21 January 2014. Topics

Romania - Ombuds institution releases report on the rights of persons with disabilities (PDF 58 kB)

Protection of rights of persons with disabilities

Publication date: 21 January 2014. Topics

Romania - Court of Appeal maintains national equality body sanctions in case of a Facebook posting of statement “Arbeit Macht Frei” by head of the Mure? county prefect office (PDF 71 kB)

Statement on Facebook account as a warning for people protesting in January 2012 in Târgu Mure? and around the country sanctioned by NCCD with RON 1,000 – decision upheld by the Curt of Appeal

Publication date: 21 January 2014. Topics