The court of law, at the request of the tutelage authority, could order to collect from parents the costs associated with the maintaining of children in social services placed in these owing to violence, negligence, abandonment or non-fulfillment of any other parental obligations. The given regulations are contained in a bill to amend the Family Code that was endorsed by the Parliament’s commission on social protection, health and family on January 31, IPN reports.

The private individuals who possess information about a case of violence, neglect or exploitation of children are obliged to inform the local authorities or the law.

The child will be entitled to pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage for bodily injuries or damage to health by violation of the personal rights through use of violence or exploitation.

If a conflict of interests appears between parents and children, this will settled by the local tutelage authority, at the place of stay of the child, while the child’s interests will be safeguarded by the tutelage authority. The children whose parents will be deprived of parental rights will be placed in social services based on an order of the local tutelage authority.