Romania

[RO] Act on Classified Information Adopted and Promulgated as Matter of Urgency

IRIS 2002-6:1/32

Mariana Stoican

Journalist, Bucharest

On 11 April, the Senate adopted the Legea pentru protectia informatiilor clasificate (Act on the protection of classified information) in the version previously approved by Parliament (see IRIS 2001-5: 15).

The Act was adopted as a matter of urgency and was signed by the President on the same day.

The Act regulates access to information which is "classified" for reasons of defence, national security and law and order, or to which, as "classified information" of economic and political significance, access is restricted.

The Act entered into force on 12 April, when it was published in the Monitorul Oficial al României (Official Gazette) No. 248.