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This law proposal has had a series of amendments during the legislative process, fact that generates concerns about the non-transparent way the Romanian government and some of the Romanian senators and deputies promote the interests of mining companies in the law process. Under the pretext of elaboration a general framework for mining industry, it has actually been taken most of the proposals from the special law for Rosia Montana. Through these, the owners of mining licences would have been given prerogatives and rights that were derogatory from all provisions for economical operators. Moreover, there would have been serious derogation from the constitutional rights of propriety, healthy environment, and access to justice and equal treatment before the law. Firstly, all the works concerning the geological prospection and exploration and those of extraction and processing of mineral resources would have been issued as overriding public interest. Therefore, this law proposal would have exceeded its own regulation domain because only the Framework Law of Expropriation no. 33/1994 can establish the issues of public interest.
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