Constitutional Court of Romania

Constitutional Court of Romania Curtea Constituţionalǎ a României
Established	1948
Jurisdiction	Romania
Location	Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
Composition method	-Senate selection (3 members) -Chamber of Deputies selection (3 members) -President selection (3 members)
Authorized by	Constitution
Decisions are appealed to	1992 - 2003: Parliament 2003 - present: none
Judge term length	9 years
Number of positions	9
Website	http://www.ccr.ro/
President of the Constitutional Court of Romania
Currently	Augustin Zegrean
Since	2010
Lead position ends	2013
Jurist term ends	2013

The Constitutional Court of Romania (Romanian: Curtea Constituţională a României) is the institution which rules on whether the laws, decrees or other bills enacted by Romanian authorities are in conformity with the Constitution.

It consists of nine members serving nine-year terms which cannot be extended, with three members each appointed by the President, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Three members are renewed every three years, with the latest renewal having occurred in 2010.

Powers

According to the Article 144 of the Constitution, the Constitutional Court exercises the following powers:

• to adjudicate on the constitutionality of laws, before promulgation, upon notification by the President of Romania, by the President of either Chamber of Parliament, by the Government, the Supreme Court of Justice, by a number of at least 50 Deputies or at least 25 Senators, as well as, ex officio, on initiatives to revise the Constitution
• to adjudicate on the constitutionality of the Standing Orders of Parliament, upon notification by the President of either Chamber, by a parliamentary group or a number of at least 50 Deputies or at least 25 Senators
• to decide on exceptions brought to the Courts of law as to the unconstitutionality of laws and orders
• to guard the observance of the procedure for the election of the President of Romania and to confirm the ballot returns
• to ascertain the circumstances which justify the interim in the exercise of office of President of Romania, and to report its findings to Parliament and the Government
• to give advisory opinion on the proposal to suspend the President of Romania from office
• to guard the observance of the procedure for the organization and holding of a referendum, and to confirm its returns
• to check on compliance with the conditions for the exercise of the legislative initiative by citizens
• to decide on objections of unconstitutionality of a political party

Romania

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Members

Since it was created in 1992, the Constitutional Court had the following composition^[1][2][3].

LEGEND

• Bolded names denote current members;
• Italicsa names denote proposals pending validation
• * denotes a President (former or current) of the Court;
• d - judge died in office;
• r - judge resigned.

Years	Appointed by the Senate			Appointed by the Chamber of Deputies			Appointed by the President
1992	Fazakás Miklosd	Viorel-Mihai Ciobanu	Antonie Iorgovanr	Ion Filipescu	Victor-Dan Zlătescu	Ioan Muraru *(1995 - 1998)	Vasile Gionea *(1992 - 1995)	Mihai Constantinescu	Florin Bucur Vasilescu
1993
1994
1995	Costică Bulai			Lucian Stângu			Ioan Deleanur
1996			Romul Petru Vonica				Nicolae Popa *(2001 - 2004)
1997
1998		Kozsokár Gábor			Constantin Doldurr			Lucian Mihair *(1998 - 2001)
1999
2000
2001			Nicolae Cochinescu			Ioan Vida *(2004 - 2007; 2007 - 2010)		Şerban Viorel Stănoiu	Petre Ninosud
2002
2003
2004	Ion Predescu *(2010 interim)			Aspazia Cojocaru			Acsinte Gaspar
2005
2006
2007		Valentin-Zoltán Puskás			Tudorel Toader			Augustin Zegrean *(2010 - 2013)
2008									Petre Lăzăroiu
2009
2010			Iulia Antoanella Motoc			Ştefan Minea			Petre Lăzăroiu
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

See also

• Courts in Romania
• Judiciary
• Rule of law
• Rule According to Higher Law

References

1. ^ Current composition of the Constitutional Court
2. ^ Former judjes
3. ^ Adevărul

External links

• (English) Official page