A broad collection of laws and legislative documents regulate national minority rights in Romania and a proper environment for the conservation of the minorities’ linguistic and cultural identity, in different fields of activity. This collection includes documents that prescribe minority rights in domains such as education, local public administration, political rights, anti-discrimination, as well as in fields such as the police officer’s status, children rights etc..
The database, that today contains 98 valid legislative documents – the Constitution, laws, Governmental decisions, decrees etc. – allows the visualization of the entire list (where the documents are listed in reverse-chronological order), as well as an advanced search on different criteria (the type of the legislative document, the domain, keywords etc.). The original Romanian version of the documents is available in Acrobat format, with the same text as it appeared in the Official Monitor. The Hungarian version, where available, is also an original one as it appears in the Official Monitor. For the English version, we have taken the translations available on the MIRIS (Minority Rights Information System) website.
The project of the Minority Law doesn’t resume all the operative decisions in each field of interest; it doesn’t substitute to each current legal decision, but rather represents a project of framework law for the protection of national minorities, also meant to widen the area of these rights by introducing the concept of cultural autonomy. Thus, the hereby database will not lose its validity and utility even in the case the law on minorities passes and is adopted.
We offer this instrument to the public, being confident that it will facilitate the research work conducted by various researchers, students, journalists, members of different civic organizations and all interested in the study of minority protection.
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