February 6, 2021
The Sovereignty Act Has Been Revised and Enlarged
Following the discussions held with you, the supporters of this popular legislative initiative, I have made the following amendments and additions:
In article 1, following your requests, I have changed the date until which the clear-cutting of forest stands is prohibited from the year 2040 to the year 2100.
In article 2 I have added the prohibition on listing on the stock exchange the shares held by the Romanian State without the approval of a qualified majority of Parliament, specifying also that this qualified majority means ⅔ of the total number of parliamentarians. The same clarification as to the meaning of the term qualified majority I have made in article 3 as well.
To article 7, which originally read “Medical treatments may be administered to Romanian citizens only upon the prior obtaining of the patients’ written agreement and consent, following prior and obligatory information given on the basis of the leaflets supplied by the manufacturer of the medicines proposed, medical emergencies excepted”, there has been added the provision that “No citizen may be discriminated against, positively or negatively, as a consequence of accepting or refusing a medical treatment.”
To article 13 I have added, as likewise prohibited, the Government assuming responsibility in the field reserved to organic Laws, so that the article now reads: “The adoption, by Emergency Ordinance or by the Government assuming responsibility, of any measures falling within the field reserved exclusively to organic laws under art. 73(3) of the Constitution is prohibited, as is the amendment or repeal, by Emergency Ordinance or by the Government assuming responsibility, of any provisions laid down in organic Laws.”
A further 4 articles have been added to the Sovereignty Law, namely:
16. Art. 297(2) of the Criminal Code is amended as follows: “(2) The same punishment shall apply to the deed of a public servant who, in the exercise of his duties, restricts the exercise of a person’s right or creates for that person a situation of inferiority on grounds of race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, sex, sexual orientation, political affiliation, wealth, age, disability, ACCEPTANCE OR REFUSAL OF A MEDICAL TREATMENT, chronic non-contagious illness, or HIV/AIDS infection.”
17. Romania’s gold reserve shall be deposited exclusively and in its entirety with the National Bank of Romania. The authorities are obliged, within a maximum of 180 days from the publication of the present Law in the Official Gazette of Romania, to repatriate in its entirety the gold deposited outside Romania.
18. The marketing on the territory of Romania of any products inferior in quality to similar products sold in any other State of the European Union is prohibited. Breach of the present legal norm constitutes a misleading commercial practice within the meaning of art. 7(2) of Law 363/2007 of 21 December 2007 and shall entail the joint and several sanctioning of the manufacturer and of the trader with a fine of between €10,000,000 and €50,000,000, according to the gravity of the deed.
19. Article 19 of Law no. 202/1998 on the organisation of the Official Gazette of Romania, republished in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 206 of 11 April 2013, as subsequently amended, is amended and shall read as follows: “Art. 19 The Autonomous Corporation ‘the Official Gazette’ shall produce an electronic product containing the published acts and the updated and consolidated legislation, which may be accessed permanently and free of charge on the internet.”
With your permission we shall close the discussions concerning the content of the law — a Law that has already become extremely extensive: 20 articles — and in the days to come we shall concentrate exclusively on the form of the Law and on meeting the requirements of legislative technique.
I too, like many others, should have wished that we might have proposals in other fields as well, such as taxation; but the Constitution and the laws in force do not permit us this from the position of simple citizens. For other amendments and legislative initiatives we should have to reach Parliament! And not merely reach it… but have a comfortable majority as well, which at this moment belongs to the realm of utopia.
I thank you for your involvement in the debates on this Sovereignty Law, a law which came naturally from the true holder of Romania’s Sovereignty: from you, from the Romanian citizen.
In the days to come we shall have to organise ourselves in order to gather the signatures needed so that this law cannot be ignored by the parliamentarians controlled by the system. And no, we shall not have to gather merely 100,000 signatures, as the Constitution requires, but hundreds of thousands or millions of signatures, so that our draft Law may become Law by the force of popular support and in spite of the obstacles the system and the Securitate men of the old or the new rite will place in our way.
Below I leave you the full text of the Sovereignty Law in its revised and expanded (but not yet final!) form, as well as a link to the form for enrolling as a volunteer for the gathering of signatures!
“Legislative project: the Sovereignty Law, or the Law for the protection of the superior and sovereign interest of the Romanian people and citizen
1. Clear-cutting of forest stands on the territory of Romania is prohibited until the year 2100.
2. The alienation of the assets of the Romanian State, as well as the listing on the stock exchange of the shares held by the Romanian State, shall take place only following the adoption by Parliament, by a qualified majority of two thirds of the members of Parliament, of an organic Law to that effect.
3. The concession of national resources shall take place only following the adoption by Parliament, by a qualified majority of two thirds of the members of Parliament, of an organic Law to that effect for each area conceded, taken separately.
4. The exploitation of the resources of the Romanian State conceded up to the present date is suspended until such time as Parliament adopts, by qualified majority, an organic Law to that effect for each conceded area, taken separately.
5. The limitation of the constitutional rights of Romanian citizens provided for in the Constitution may be carried out only by the legislature, through an organic law adopted by Parliament by a qualified majority of two thirds of the members of Parliament.
6. Articles of law declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court shall be deemed repealed by operation of law under the present article as from the 46th day after the publication in the Official Gazette of the Decision of the Constitutional Court, where the legislature has not brought the legal provision into accord with the Court’s decision.
7. Medical treatments may be administered to Romanian citizens only upon the prior obtaining of the patients’ written agreement and consent, following prior and obligatory information given on the basis of the leaflets supplied by the manufacturer of the medicines proposed, medical emergencies excepted. No citizen may be discriminated against, positively or negatively, as a consequence of accepting or refusing a medical treatment.
8. The involvement of the secret services of Romania in the judiciary, in politics, in the press and in business on the territory of Romania is prohibited. The unmasking of natural or legal persons who breach the present legal provision is excepted from the application of art. 12(2) of Law 51/1991. The breach of the present legal provision constitutes abuse of office, and the failure to report a possible breach of this norm constitutes complicity in abuse of office, as that offence is defined and punished by the provisions of art. 297 of the Criminal Code.
9. The acquisition of military equipment from foreign producers who do not ensure Offset production in Romania of at least 40% of the value of the contract is prohibited.
10. Any form of censorship or limitation of the right to free expression of Romanian citizens on social networks and/or in the online environment is prohibited. Breach of the present legal norm shall entail the sanctioning of the online service provider with a fine of between €10,000,000 and €50,000,000, according to the gravity of the deed.
11. Any form of commercial advertising on television, on the radio and on the social networks for medicines, vaccines and other pharmaceutical products is prohibited, with the exception of cosmetic and natural products.
12. The bringing into the country of waste of any nature whatever is prohibited, whether it comes from within the Community area or from outside it.
13. The adoption, by Emergency Ordinance or by the Government assuming responsibility, of any measures falling within the field reserved exclusively to organic laws under art. 73(3) of the Constitution is prohibited, as is the amendment or repeal, by Emergency Ordinance or by the Government assuming responsibility, of any provisions laid down in organic Laws.
14. As from the date of adoption of the present Law, the total or partial failure to observe the conditions and obligations stipulated as incumbent upon the purchaser shall entail the nullity by operation of law of the privatisation contract. The action for a declaration of nullity may be brought by any Romanian citizen and is exempt from stamp duty.
15. The deed of Undermining the national economy is criminalised and shall read as follows: “The deed of using one of the legal entities referred to in art. 176 of the Criminal Code, or of hindering its normal activity, where the deed is such as to undermine the national economy, shall be punished by imprisonment from 5 to 20 years and the prohibition of certain rights. Where the deed provided for in the preceding paragraph has caused significant damage to the national economy, the punishment shall be life imprisonment or imprisonment from 15 to 25 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
16. Art. 297(2) of the Criminal Code is amended as follows: “(2) The same punishment shall apply to the deed of a public servant who, in the exercise of his duties, restricts the exercise of a person’s right or creates for that person a situation of inferiority on grounds of race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, sex, sexual orientation, political affiliation, wealth, age, disability, ACCEPTANCE OR REFUSAL OF A MEDICAL TREATMENT, chronic non-contagious illness, or HIV/AIDS infection.”
17. Romania’s gold reserve shall be deposited exclusively and in its entirety with the National Bank of Romania. The authorities are obliged, within a maximum of 180 days from the publication of the present Law in the Official Gazette of Romania, to repatriate in its entirety the gold deposited outside Romania.
18. The marketing on the territory of Romania of any products inferior in quality to similar products sold in any other State of the European Union is prohibited. Breach of the present legal norm constitutes a misleading commercial practice within the meaning of art. 7(2) of Law 363/2007 of 21 December 2007 and shall entail the joint and several sanctioning of the manufacturer and of the trader with a fine of between €10,000,000 and €50,000,000, according to the gravity of the deed.
19. Article 19 of Law no. 202/1998 on the organisation of the Official Gazette of Romania, republished in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 206 of 11 April 2013, as subsequently amended, is amended and shall read as follows: “Art. 19 The Autonomous Corporation ‘the Official Gazette’ shall produce an electronic product containing the published acts and the updated and consolidated legislation, which may be accessed permanently and free of charge on the internet.”
20. The present law shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the official gazette, any contrary provision being repealed by operation of law as from that date.”
To enrol as a volunteer of the Sovereignty Law, go to:
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