The sheer frequency of legislative modifications in Romania,which exasperates both citizens and the business world, does notonly stem from the need to change legislation after the revolutionof 1989, but also from the ease with which the governments thatsucceeded each other during the last 20 years adopted emergencyordinances. The champion of emergency ordinances is the Cabinet offormer prime minister Mugur Isărescu, who, in a single year (2000)issued 297 emergency ordinances, while in the same year Parliamentadopted 683 laws, which means a total of 980 pieces of legislation.The database of the Legislative Council offers a complete pictureof what happened in the legislative field over twenty years.
In Romania, there are currently a huge number of pieces oflegislation in force, individual and international, 95,618 onJanuary 28, 2011, of which only 1,958 were issued before 1989. Eachlaw needs to be abided by because one cannot cite ignorance of theexistence of that piece of legislation as an excuse.
The rate of legislative modifications explains the bewildermentof common people, as well as of companies and accountants, whensuch legislative modifications occur, and explains why lawyers andlegal consultants are so successful.
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