UPR Sexual Rights Database

National Report:
Para 88) In the field of domestic violence, the Ministry of Labor and Social Justice, through the National Agency for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (NAEO), exercises the functions of strategy, regulation, representation and State authority and has attributions in the elaboration, coordination and implementation of the strategies and policies of the Government.
Para 89) In order to strengthen public policy for eliminating gender based violence, including domestic violence, in 2012, the Romanian Government approved Government Decision no. 1156/2012 for the approval of the National Strategy for prevention and combating of family violence and the Action Plan for implementing the national strategy for prevention and combating of family violence for the period 2013–201726 .
Para 90) By Law no. 30/2016 Romania ratified the Istanbul Convention imposing concrete measures on States Parties to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence. The Istanbul Convention proposes creating mechanisms to guarantee the protection of victims, raise awareness of the effects of the phenomenon, and prevent and combat all forms of violence.
Para 91) In order to carry out the complex legislative steps required by the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, NAEO elaborated the necessary legislative package for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, which includes the modification of the legislation regarding equal opportunities for women and men, on the prevention and combating domestic violence, the modification of the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes.
Para 92) At the same time, the Governance Program for the period 2017–2020 provides a series of measures aimed to preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, and has as a prerequisite the adoption of the draft laws necessary for the harmonization of national legislation with the provisions of the Istanbul Convention and it will be transposed into secondary legislation, as well as the development of social services for victims of domestic violence and aggressors by implementing projects from European funds.
Para 93) Another important task of the NAEO is to finance and/or co-finance programs of national interest in the field of gender equality and prevention and combating domestic violence. A number of projects were and are to be developed in order to raise awareness on this phenomenon.
Para 95) Aspects related to domestic violence are being approached in the framework of the family law organized for the judicial trainees and for the continuous training by the National Institute of Magistracy.

Stakeholder Summary:
Para 19) [ACTEDO] noted that despite existing legislation on domestic violence, programmes and services to prevent and combat domestic violence were scarce and poorly funded.

National Report:
Para 108) Regarding the prevention and elimination of domestic violence against women (recommendation 13), Law no. 217/2003 on preventing and combating domestic violence has been recently substantially amended by Law no. 25/2012. One of the most important improvements of the law is the introduction of the restriction order, which is a measure of protection for the victim of domestic violence that can be issued by the court. Another specific measure of protection provided by the new law aims to improve the efficiency of authorities to support and advise victims in order to resort to legal means for sanctioning domestic violence cases.

Para 109) Besides the legal improvements, a number of programs with national coverage were dedicated to this field of activity, based on a financing offered from the state budged by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection.

Para 110) Also, in December 2009, a group of 12 EU Member States among which Romania, presented a proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and the Council on the European protection order. The proposal was adopted in 2011 (Directive 2011/99/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the European protection order).

Para 111) During the year 2010, at national level 36 informal campaigns were conducted, 19 domestic violence prevention projects and also about 37.000 persons received preventive information. In conducting the activities, external partners have been involved as well.