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The Senate rejected the Law of Mines, but the Deputies’ Chamber has the final decision
The Senate rejected on Monday the Law of Mines, the framework law for the mining exploitation in Rosia Montana, with 85 votes in favour, against 87 necessary to be voted. Although the USL MPs were supposed to pass the law, they did not manage to get mobilised. At the insistence of PSD the law was voted for the second time, but they did not manage to get the necessary number of votes. The law of mines was altered so that the government be able to start the exploitation in Rosia Montana. The law will be passed by the Deputies’Chamber which is the decision-making forum in this case. Once the law was passed, the government can issue a decision for the start of the exploitation in Rosia Montana. The executive will issue the decision at most in January 2014.
At mid-November, the Parliament rejected the draft law which had come from the government concerning the exploitation in Rosia Montana. In the report rejecting the law, the MPs recommended the creation of a new framework-law for gold exploitations.
In the specialty commissions in the Senate, the USL MPs amended the law of mines, creating a framework law which will allow the government to start the exploitation in Rosia Montana. Practically, in the law of mines they resumed a large part of the provisions in the Rosia Montana law which had been given by the government.