The directors of the National Agency for Energy Regulation (NAER), who form the Agency’s Administration Board, were discharged from posts by a majority of votes of MP in the December 3 sitting of Parliament. The lawmakers supported the draft decision to abrogate the Parliament decisions on the appointment of the NAER Administration Board that was adopted in 2013. The initiative was put forward by the Socialist group, IPN reports.
One of the authors of the initiative Vasile Bolea said in Parliament that the four directors who form the Administration Board were incorrectly appointed for a period of six years at a time when two of them were to be named for four years, while another two – for two years.
Democratic MP Sergiu Sarbu said he considers the legal norm refers to the first composition of the Administration Board, not yet to the next compositions. When the first four directors were appointed, the legal norm was obeyed, while the logic of this provision was for the NAER directors to be afterward changed in turn, not all of them together.
Head of Parliament Andrian Candu said such a decision seems illegal to him and its legal effects could be very strange. Earlier, the Speaker asked the authors what will happen to the salaries of the NAER directors and to the decisions taken by the Agency since 2013.
Under the decision, a new contest will be announced to select and then confirm the candidates as directors of the National Agency for Energy Regulation.
