L’autonomie financière du Parlement roumain
The Financial Autonomy of the Romanian Parliament

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the organization and functioning of both Houses of Parliament, as well as their financing, which are set by the Constitution and by several acts of a normative or regulatory nature. The Constitution deals with the general principles underlying the organization, functioning and financing of the two chambers of the Romanian Parliament in its articles 64 (The Internal Organization of the Parliament), 69 to 72 (The Status of Deputies and Senators), 111 (The Information of the Parliament), 138 (The Public National Budget) and 140 (The Court of Accounts). The constitutional provisions must be considered together with the Rules of Organization and Functioning of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the Law no. 500 of 11 July 2002 on public finance, the Law no. 96 of 21 April 2006 on the Statute of Deputies and Senators, as well as Law no. 69 of 16 April 2010 on fiscal responsibility. The issue of the internal financing of the two chambers of Parliament and their financial controls concerns primarily the independence and even the autonomy of the legislative authority. In fact, the methods of financing, such as financial control, concern the conditions of autonomy or even independence of an institution, and this is even more important when this issue concerns institutions that embody the „life” of one of the essential functions of the State: the legislative function. It is this latter issue of financial autonomy that will be privileged in this study. In the light of the above-mentioned considerations, the analysis of the norms relating to the preparation, execution and control of the budgets of the two Chambers, which derive from the various regulatory documents related to the two assemblies of the Romanian Parliament (I), allows to consider the evolution in figures of the budgets of the two Chambers, as well as the different forms of control of their expenses (II).

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