Nicolae Ciuca, the Prime Minister of Romania, talks about the decision of the Romanian Parliament to create a joint special commission of the two chambers to support the process of Romania's accession to the OECD, an extremely important objective for our country.
Nicolae-Ionel Ciucă welcomes the establishment of the joint special commission of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to support the accession process of Romania to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The establishment of the OECD Special Parliamentary Commission denotes the cross-party commitment of the Romanian Parliament to the process of our country's accession to the Organization and strengthens its role in relation to one of Romania's current main strategic endeavors on the international level.
The Parliament is an important actor in the OECD accession process, with an essential role in achieving the Organization's membership status. After submitting the Initial Memorandum on December 15, 2022, Romania entered the technical stage of the process, which involves in-depth evaluations by the 26 sectoral Committees of the OECD covering almost all public policy areas: capital markets, investments, social affairs, competition, public and corporate governance, integrity and transparency, taxation, trade, agriculture, small and medium enterprises, etc.
The Parliament of Romania, as the sole legislative authority of the country, can act, including on the basis of the legislative initiative belonging to the deputies and senators, as a promoter of the development of the normative-legislative framework necessary for Romania's accession to the OECD, respectively as a facilitator of the public debate in the fields relevant to the accession process to the Organization.
The Government of Romania expresses its full willingness to cooperate with the OECD Special Parliamentary Commission, as well as to support the public debate on the subject. This will lead both to the strengthening of the dialogue between the Executive and the Parliament in favor of good governance and the interests of the citizens, as well as to the consolidation of Romania's global efforts in the accession process.
