Raad van Europa dringt aan op beperking van de bevoegdheden van de Roemeense geheime dienst (en)

Strasbourg, 06.07.2005 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe yesterday adopted an Interim Resolution concerning the implementation by Romania of the judgment delivered in May 2000 by the European Court of Human Rights in the Rotaru case. The European Court had found, inter alia, that the Romanian law did not lay down with sufficient precision the limits to be respected by the domestic authorities in the exercise of their power to gather, record and archive information concerning national security, and did not allow the individuals to challenge the holding, by the intelligence services, of information on their private life or to refute the truth of such information.

The Committee of Ministers noted the measures adopted by Romania to prevent new similar violations, in particular through setting up a procedure of judicial control of secret surveillance measures. However, the Committee called upon the Romanian authorities to rapidly adopt the further legislative reforms necessary to respond to the criticism made by the European Court concerning the Romanian system of gathering and storing of information by the secret services.

Full text of the Committee's Resolution: ResDH(2005)57

Under the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court's judgments require the adoption by the respondent states, under the Committee of Ministers' supervision, of all measures necessary to grant the applicants appropriate redress and to prevent new similar violations in the future.

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