for the modification and completion of the law no. 24/2000 regarding the norms of legislation technique to elaborate normative acts. 

from 13/03/2007

Published in The Official Gazette of Romania

The act entered into force on March 24, 2007

The Parliament of Romania adopts the hereby law.

Art. 1 - Law no. 24/2000 regarding the norms of legislation technique to elaborate normative acts, republished in The Official Gazette of Romania, Section 1, no 777 from August 25, 2004, is modified and supplemented as follows:

1. The paragraph (3) of article 6 shall have the following content:
"(3) The projects of normative acts are subject to adoption accompanied by an exposure of reasons, a substantiation note or by an adoption report, as well as by an impact study, as the case may be."

2. In paragraph (1) of article 29, after letter c) it shall be added a letter d) with the following content:
"d) impact studies - in case of important and complex law projects, in case of law projects on which the Government assumed the responsibility, as well as in case of  law projects of adoption of ordinances issued by Government on the grounds of a habilitation law, law projects which are subject to Parliament adoption".

3. The paragraph (2) of article 29 shall have the following content:
"The exposures of reasons, the substantiation notes, the adoption reports and the impact studies represent the instruments of presentation and motivation of newly proposed regulations."

4. After the article 31 a new article is introduced, article no. 311, with the following content:
"The impact study 

Art. 311
(1) The purpose of elaboration of the impact study is to estimate its costs and benefits at economic and social level by adoption of the law project, as well as to focus the difficulties that might arise in the process of applying into practice of the regulation proposed.

(2) The impact study is drawn up, as a rule, by the specialty structures of the central public administration, at the request of the Government.
In case of legislative propositions initiated by the deputies or senators, the impact studies are drawn up by the specific ministries, at the request of Parliament Commissions.

(3) The impact study refers to:
a) the state of facts at the moment of elaboration of the new regulation
b) the modifications proposed for the present legislation
c) the objectives concerned by modification of present legislation
d) the available means in order to accomplish the stated purposes 
e) the difficulties that might arise when implementing the new regulations
f) the evaluation of costs required by the adoption of the law project and the possible budgetary savings resulting from this project, the reasons on which the evaluation is grounded, as well as the procedure of costs and savings calculus
g) the benefits resulting from the implementation of law project, others than those of economic nature
h) the comparative analysis of the law project costs and benefits, from which to result whether the benefits are justified by the costs."

Art. II -  Law no. 24/2000 regarding the norms of legislation technique to elaborate normative acts, republished in The Official Gazette of Romania, Section 1, no 777 from August 25, 2004, with modifications and completions stipulated by the hereby law, shall be republished in The Official Gazette of Romania, Section 1, with a new numbering of the text.

This law was adopted by the Parliament of Romania, observing the stipulations of art. no. 75 and art. no. 76 paragraph 2, from the Constitution of Romania, republished.

The President of Chamber of Deputies:
Bogdan Olteanu

The President of the Senate:
Nicolae Vacaroiu

Bucharest, March 13, 2007
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