On 9 June 2021, the Constitutional Court of Romania ruled that Law 55/2020 on some measures to prevent and fight the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the law by which the state of alert was established in 2020, is constitutional with the exception of one article.
Media sources inform that only article 72 of the law was rejected with no impact on the substance of the law. The alleged reason for rejection seems to be that the law failed to specify short deadlines for the submission of challenges against the normative acts.
The decision was taken following five different constitutional complaints that invoked violations of citizens’ rights and freedoms by imposing specific limitations to the state of alert.
