- accreditation and collaboration with non-governmental organizations in the
field of human rights protection, also based on service agreements;
- regulating guarantees for NPM members, i.e.: for the exercise of their
attributions, members of the National Prevention Mechanism shall receive
unconditional support and guarantees from the authorities.
- proposal of the annual budget of the National Prevention Mechanism by the
deputy of the People’s Advocate for the National Prevention Mechanism and its
approval by the People’s Advocate Institution;
- awarding a bonus for the staff performing visits to areas where factors may
affect physical and psychological health and integrity;
- ensuring the payment of transport, accommodation and meal expenses
during the travels of the representatives of governmental organizations who are
members of the visit team;
- exemptions from the incompatibilities stipulated by Law no. 7/2006,
republished, as subsequently amended and supplemented, for the specialized staff
within the National Prevention Mechanism - physicians, psychologists, social
workers, with a view to ensuring the continuity in the exercise of their profession.
After the legislative procedure was resumed, the legislative proposal was
debated and adopted by the Chamber of Deputies on 13.06.2018 and was
subsequently submitted to the Senate. It was also adopted by the Senate on
15.10.2018, and was sent to the President of Romania on 24.10.2018, in order to
be promulgated.The notification of non-constitutionality of the law for the
amendment and supplementation of Law no. 35/1997 on the organization and
operation of the People’s Advocate Institution, drawn up by the President of
Romania, was registered on 12.11.2018, and the Plenum of the Constitutional Court
debated on the objection for the non-constitutionality of the law on 12.12.2018,
within the pre-promulgation control. The Constitutional Court decide to postpone
the decision for 23.01.2019, and then for 30.01.2019.
► As for the attributions of the National Prevention Mechanism, we mention
that Law no. 9 of January 5, 2018 on the amendment and supplementation of Law no.
35/1997 on the organization and operation of the People’s Advocate, a new field of
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