01.31.2012

Romania’s Government has decided to resume the issue of correspondence voting and plans to adopt the bill by end-April and send it to Parliament, according to the Cabinet’s legislative schedule more

01.13.2012

Romanian President Traian Basescu has called on the prime minister to withdraw the new healthcare bill, having seen that a large part of the public and of the healthcare system do not want it to more

01.12.2012

Tudor Ciuhodaru was released Thursday from the position of honorific adviser with the Romanian Health Ministry, two days after appointment, ministry spokeswoman Oana Grigore told MEDIAFAX. more

01.11.2012

The bankruptcy procedure will also apply to reinsurers, alongside insurance-reinsurance companies, according to a bill approved Wednesday by Romania's Government, which amends Law 503/2004 on the more

01.09.2012

Romania’s ruling coalition will hold talks on the new healthcare bill on January 23 and will decide afterwards the steps that will be taken to pass the draft law into legislation. more

12.30.2011

The bankruptcy procedure will also apply to reinsurers, alongside insurance-reinsurance companies, according to a bill put forward by the Romanian Finance Ministry. more

12.29.2011

Organ harvesting is allowed only if people consented to having their organs removed after death for transplantation to another recipient, or if the family of the deceased assents to the procedure, more

12.29.2011

Selling the results of experiments sent to the authorities to request authorization for pharmaceutical or chemical products may be punished by six months to five years in prison, under the Romanian more

12.29.2011

Conflicts between patients and medical staff will be settled amicably by a special commission, according to Romania’s new healthcare bill, which is up for public debate as of Wednesday. more

12.29.2011

Any authorized operator may provide emergency and first aid services, to allow for more sources of financing and apply the principles of regulated competition, says Romania's new healthcare bill, now more

12.29.2011

The Romanian Health Ministry will negotiate with pharmaceutical companies the number of patients to receive treatment using the money available for national healthcare programs, which currently use more

12.29.2011

Hospitals may operate as foundations or commercial companies to attract extra financial resources, and their current administrators will be the new units’ founders or single shareholders, according more

12.28.2011

Romanians who fail to pay their health insurance contribution will receive medical care only in emergency situations, in infectious disease cases and for illnesses included in the national more

12.28.2011

Romanian medical personnel is obligated to provide consultation only to someone previously accepted as a patient, but may not reject a person on grounds of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or more

12.28.2011

To join the Romanian social health insurance system, private insurers must be authorized by the Insurance Supervision Commission, must have signed up at least one million clients, with premiums worth more

12.28.2011

Romania's new healthcare bill, now up for public debate, introduces private health insurance houses and allows hospitals to operate as foundations or commercial companies. more

12.28.2011

Romanian democrat liberal MP Stefan Pirpiliu has put forth a bill banning begging on the streets, setting fines for people giving money to beggars and setting jail punishments for begging. more

12.26.2011

Romanian senators Emilian Francu (liberal) and Elena Mitrea (social democrat) have put forward a bill whereby maternity leave and child-rearing benefits will be provided for all births, not only the more

12.15.2011

Romania’s opposition Social Liberal Union on Thursday submitted a motion of no-confidence over the Government’s plan to merge next year’s local and general elections by-passing parliamentary more

12.14.2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Wednesday sent back to Parliament for review a bill that eliminated legal protection for designs and models for visible car spare parts and urged lawmakers to come more

12.14.2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Wednesday he is sending back to Parliament a bill whereby construction permits are issued by default if local authorities fail to respond to permit applications more

12.13.2011

The Romanian Senate’s committee for legal matters unanimously adopted Tuesday two bills, one introducing extended confiscation of wealth and another regarding disciplinary liability of magistrates, more

12.02.2011

Romania's Ministry of Interior has proposed holding the elections for local authorities and for the Parliament at the same time, arguing that this would reduce the total cost from EUR43 million to more

11.30.2011

Deputies once again put off discussing the raising of the SIF holding cap in Tuesday’s plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies. The news was received with great disappointment by investors, whose more

11.24.2011

Romania’s Social Liberal Union, in opposition, said Thursday it will notify the Constitutional Court on the recently adopted welfare bill, which significantly lowers the number of social programs more