Constitutional Court of Romania

Constitutional Court of Romania Curtea Constituţionalǎ a României
Established	1992
Country	Romania
Location	Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
Composition method	-Senate selection (3 members) -Chamber of Deputies selection (3 members) -President selection (3 members)
Authorized by	Constitution
Decisions are appealed to	1992 - 2003: Parliament 2003 - present: none
Judge term length	9 years
Number of positions	9
Website	http://www.ccr.ro/
President of the Constitutional Court of Romania
Currently	Augustin Zegrean
Since	2010
Lead position ends	2016
Jurist term ends	2016

The Constitutional Court of Romania (Romanian: Curtea Constituţională a României) is the institution which rules on whether the laws, decrees or other bills enacted by Romanian authorities are in conformity with the Constitution.

It consists of nine members serving nine-year terms which cannot be extended, with three members each appointed by the President, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Three members are renewed every three years, with the latest renewal occurring in 2013.

Powers

According to the Article 144 of the Constitution, the Constitutional Court exercises the following powers:

to adjudicate on the constitutionality of laws, before promulgation, upon notification by the President of Romania, by the President of either Chamber of Parliament, by the Government, the Supreme Court of Justice, by a number of at least 50 Deputies or at least 25 Senators, as well as, ex officio, on initiatives to revise the Constitution
to adjudicate on the constitutionality of the Standing Orders of Parliament, upon notification by the President of either Chamber, by a parliamentary group or a number of at least 50 Deputies or at least 25 Senators
to decide on exceptions brought to the Courts of law as to the unconstitutionality of laws and orders
to guard the observance of the procedure for the election of the President of Romania and to confirm the ballot returns
to ascertain the circumstances which justify the interim in the exercise of office of President of Romania, and to report its findings to Parliament and the Government
to give advisory opinion on the proposal to suspend the President of Romania from office
to guard the observance of the procedure for the organization and holding of a referendum, and to confirm its returns
to check on compliance with the conditions for the exercise of the legislative initiative by citizens
to decide on objections of unconstitutionality of a political party

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Members

Current structure

Appointer	Name (Office)	Term start	Term end
Senate	Mona Pivniceru	2013	2022
	Valentin-Zoltán Puskás	2007	2016
	Simona Maya Teodoroiu	2015	2019
Chamber of Deputies	Valer Dorneanu	2013	2022
	Tudorel Toader	2007	2016
	Ştefan Minea	2010	2019
President	Daniel Morar	2013	2022
	Augustin Zegrean (President)	2007 (2010)	2016 (2016)
	Petre Lăzăroiu	2010	2019

History

Since it was created in 1992, the Constitutional Court had the following composition.^[1]^[2]^[3]

LEGEND

Bolded names denote current members;
Italic names denote proposals pending validation
d - judge died in office;
r - judge resigned.

Years	Appointed by the Senate			Appointed by the Chamber of Deputies			Appointed by the President			Court President		Years
Years	First term	Second term	Third term	First term	Second term	Third term	First term	Second term	Third term	Court President		Years
1992	Fazakás Miklos^d	Viorel-Mihai Ciobanu	Antonie Iorgovan^r	Ion Filipescu	Victor-Dan Zlătescu	Ioan Muraru	Vasile Gionea	Mihai Constantinescu	Florin Bucur Vasilescu	1	Vasile Gionea	1992
1993												1993
1994												1994
1995												1995
1995	Costică Bulai			Lucian Stângu			Ioan Deleanu^r			2	Ioan Muraru	1995
1996							Ioan Deleanu^r					1996
1996			Romul Petru Vonica				Nicolae Popa					1996
1997												1997
1998												1998
1998		Kozsokár Gábor			Constantin Doldur^r			Lucian Mihai^r		3	Lucian Mihai	1998
1999												1999
2000												2000
2000			Nicolae Cochinescu			Ioan Vida		Şerban Viorel Stănoiu	Petre Ninosu^d			2000
2001												2001
2001										4	Nicolae Popa	2001
2002												2002
2003												2003
2004												2004
2004	Ion Predescu			Aspazia Cojocaru			Acsinte Gaspar			5	Ioan Vida	2004
2005												2005
2006												2006
2007												2007
2007		Valentin-Zoltán Puskás			Tudorel Toader			Augustin Zegrean			Ioan Vida	2007
2008												2008
2008									Petre Lăzăroiu			2008
2009												2009
2010												2010
										—	Ion Predescu interim
			Iulia Antoanella Motoc^r			Ştefan Minea			Petre Lăzăroiu	6	Augustin Zegrean
2011												2011
2012												2012
2012												2012
2013												2013
2013			Toni Greblă^r									2013
2014			Toni Greblă^r							7		2014
2015			Simona Maya Teodoroiu
2015
2016												2016
2016												2016	2017	8	2017
2018												2018	2017		2017
2018										2019	2019	2018

References

External links

Official website

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