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Law No. 1 Of 1978 Concerning Problem Solving Activity Proposals, Appeals, Complaints And Requests Of The Working People

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 1 din 1978 cu privire la activitatea de rezolvare a propunerilor, sesizarilor, reclamaţiilor şi cererilor oamenilor muncii

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LEGE No. 1 of 1978 on the work to resolve proposals, referrals, complaints and demands of working people
ISSUER GREAT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Published in OFFICIAL BULLETIN NO. 24 of 27 March 1978



The implementation of the Romanian Communist Party Program for the development of the multilateral socialist society developed and Romania's advance towards communism makes it necessary to broaden the participation of all the people in the development, elaboration and application of all decisions on the economic and social development of the country. The proposals and referrals addressed to the party, state and public bodies represent an important form of direct and effective participation of working people in the leadership of state and public affairs, an expression of the affirmation of rights and Citizens ' freedoms, enshrined in the Constitution, of the development and continuous adinction of socialist democracy. The resolution of the letters of working people and the good organization of the hearings constitute permanent concerns of the party and the state for the continuous strengthening of the link with the masses, for their systematic and multilateral consultation, in order to optimal resolution of the problems of the socialist society and the improvement of the institutional framework for the realization of the workers ' self-management. The leaders of the socialist units, committees and executive offices of the popular councils, the other central and local state bodies have the obligation to act operatively to resolve the proposals and remove the missing working people, to prove the increased responsiveness to their justified requirements, to show a spirit of responsibility towards citizens ' complaints and to liquidate the shortcomings found. The manifestations of taraganation and formalism or negligence in the settlement of proposals, referrals and demands of working people contravene the general norms of leadership and organization of our socialist society that by its essence aims to ensure a wider recovery of the advanced experience, initiative and creative capacity of working people in all sectors of activity. For the continuous improvement of the activity of examination and resolution of proposals, complaints, complaints and demands of working people, increasing the responsibility of the state bodies in ensuring respect for the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, in accordance with the party's decisions and laws of the country, it is necessary to improve the legislative framework of this activity To that end, The Great National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Romania adopts this law. + Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 The right of petition, guaranteed by the Constitution to all citizens, constitutes an expression of socialist democracy, of the direct connection of the party and the state with the masses of working people, an important form of participation of citizens in the leadership to all sectors of activity, to the debate and resolution of the problems of economic and social life, according to the party's decisions and the laws of + Article 2 Working people have the right to address the party and state bodies, socialist units and public organizations with any problems of personal interest, to request their clarification and resolution according to the legal provisions. Also, working people have the right and duty to refer to the competent party and state bodies, as well as public organizations, with any issues of general interest regarding the improvement of economic-social activity, defense and the development of public wealth, the strengthening of legality, order and discipline, the affirmation in the entire social life of the principles of socialist ethics and equity, the fight against manifestations of bureaucracy, the removal of shortcomings and deprivation, misconduct and abuse at work. + Article 3 The entire activity of examination and resolution of proposals, referrals, complaints of applications of working people is carried out under the direct leadership of the party bodies and organizations. State bodies, socialist units and public organizations are obliged to examine and clarify all issues of personal or general interest noticed by citizens through letters or to audiences and respond to their resolution with principle and maximum operativeness, according to the decisions of the party and laws of the country. + Article 4 The collective management bodies of ministries, other state bodies, all socialist units and public organizations, are obliged to ensure the proper organization and conduct of the entire examination and settlement activity. proposals, referrals and requests of citizens. Ministers, heads of enterprises, institutions, other socialist units and public organizations answer for the objectivity of the research carried out, for the merits and justice of the conclusions drawn and the legality of the measures established, for the accuracy and operativeness of the answers given to citizens. + Article 5 The letters of the working people will be solved through direct research, on the spot. The bodies responsible for the settlement of referrals and complaints will take into account, as a rule, the signed letters, as well as the requests, referrals and complaints presented personally in the hearings. In all cases it is mandatory to listen to the person to whom the letter refers. + Article 6 No person who addressed, in good faith verbal or written referrals to the party, state or public bodies and organizations, can be drawn, in any way, to account for it. Any act of persecution against people who have made such referrals is sanctioned according to the law. It is also sanctioned according to the law, defamation or slandering of a person, through letters and audiences. + Article 7 People who show bureaucratic attitude towards the letters of working people, drag their resolution, try to cover deprivation or accept superficial solutions in solving referrals and requests, which do not comply with the obligation to receive citizens in the audience, will be put into the discussion of the work collectives to which they belong, taking the appropriate measures. + Chapter 2 Examination and resolution of proposals, referrals, complaints and requests + Article 8 The right of petition is exercised by proposals, complaints, complaints and requests addressed to the state authorities, state administration, judicial bodies, bodies of the prosecutor's office, institutions, state economic units, as well as cooperative organizations and other public organizations. + Article 9 State and public bodies and organizations, all socialist units are obliged to analyze with the utmost care the letters addressed by citizens and to entrust them to the resolution of professionals with a thorough political and professional training, experience in work and with an irreproachable conduct in society, which in their entire activity have shown principle in the application of laws. + Article 10 Referrals and complaints directed against the activity of the management of some socialist units, a state or public organ are investigated and solved by the higher hierarchical bodies. It is forbidden to send to research the complaints and complaints to the bodies or persons whose activity they refer to. + Article 11 The examination and resolution of proposals, complaints and complaints, as well as the communication of responses to citizens, must be made as soon as possible, without exceeding from their receipt the following deadlines: a) 40 days for those addressed to central party bodies, state and public organizations; b) 30 days for those addressed to the county party committees, the Bucharest Municipal Party Committee, the county folk councils and the People's Council of Bucharest; c) 20 days for all other party, state and public organizations, as well as for economic and social units. In cases when the problems arise fall within the competence of other bodies or organizations, the letters will be sent to them, for resolution, within 5 days. For letters of a special nature, which require a longer research, the deadlines set out above will be able to be extended for the most 30 days by the heads of the bodies who received the letters for resolution. Exceptionally, for certain proposals, referrals and complaints that cannot be resolved within this deadline, greater extensions may be approved. Applications to all state bodies will be resolved within 20 days. + Article 12 At the central state and public bodies, in all socialist units will be organized monthly collective made up of basic staff who will control the way of solving the proposals and referrals of working people, intervening, at the same time, directly for the adoption of the necessary measures. + Chapter 3 Duties and responsibilities of the governing bodies of the state and public economic and social units, as well as of the popular councils + Article 13 The heads of institutions, enterprises and all socialist units will ensure the rapid and thorough research and resolution of the problems raised by working people, in strict compliance with the legal provisions. Directors and other staff with leadership work of socialist units are obliged to receive daily working staff who want to raise problems regarding the activity of the unit. For the personal problems of the working people in the unit, the governing bodies are obliged to establish a day of reception per week. + Article 14 Directors of state agricultural enterprises, resorts for the mechanization of agriculture and other socialist units will determine days when they will travel to farms, wards, brigades or other component subunits that are at long distances. large by the headquarters of the units and will analyze and solve, on the spot, the problems raised by their staff. + Article 15 The councils of the working people of plants, enterprises and other socialist units, the governing bodies of the cooperative units and the other public organizations will systematically analyze the problems noticed by letters and audiences and will put in the debate of the general meetings of the working people how to solve them. The executive offices of the working people's councils will investigate and solve the letters addressed to them directly. + Article 16 The mayors of the communes will set a weekly audience day at the headquarters of the popular council for the reception of citizens who have to solve personal problems and will establish, for the same purpose, a weekly program of travel to the villages of the commune to receive in audience the citizens of the respective localities. For the problems regarding the economic, political and social activity that take place in the commune, mayors are obliged to receive citizens whenever they are at the headquarters of the popular council. The executive office of the communal popular council will be informed monthly on the letters received, the complaints within the audiences, as well as how to solve the problems raised by citizens. The communal folk council will analyze the research and problem-solving activity referred by citizens through letters or audiences in sessions, presenting the conclusions on issues of general interest in the meetings. citizens of the villages or the commune. + Article 17 In the executive committees or offices of the city, municipal and county folk councils will be presented monthly briefings on the settlement of proposals, referrals, complaints and citizens ' requests, as well as the issues high in audiences. Semi-annually, during the sessions of the city, municipal and county folk councils will be analyzed, based on reports of executive committees or offices, how to settle letters, establishing measures to improve activity in the city. this area and informing citizens about solving problems of general interest. + Article 18 The Presidents, First Vice-Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Committees or Executive Offices of the People's Boards shall receive in the audience, each on a weekly basis, the citizens of the respective administrative-territorial unit, ensuring the operational and legal resolution of the problems. + Article 19 Letters referring to matters of particular importance will be examined and resolved under the direction and direct guidance of the chairmen of the executive committees of the county folk councils. In the same way it will be done in cases when several proposals have been received, complaints and complaints about the same problem, from the same job or locality, or when they are signed by citizens. + Chapter 4 Tasks and responsibilities of central state bodies + Article 20 Monthly briefings will be presented in the executive offices of the governing boards of ministries and other central bodies, and half-yearly management boards will look at work to resolve issues raised in letters and to audiences within these institutions and will take appropriate action. + Article 21 Ministers and other central organ leaders will receive in the audience, during each week, in the scheduled days and hours; the secretaries of state, the prime ministers of ministers, ministers ' deputies, secretaries of state, the other staff. of central state bodies will receive citizens in the audience on days other than those established for the head of the institution. + Article 22 The central bodies of the state administration will inform the Council of Ministers on a semi-annual basis on the main conclusions drawn from the examination and resolution of proposals, complaints, complaints and demands of working people, it also generates the measures taken to improve the activity. + Article 23 The Council of Ministers will consider half-yearly, based on reports received from the central bodies of the state administration, how to resolve proposals, complaints and referrals and report half-yearly to the Council of State on the conclusions detached, on the measures taken and those required to be adopted further. The government will organize the reception in the audience of citizens twice a month, by each first deputy prime minister and deputy prime minister. + Article 24 Besides the State Council of the Socialist Republic of Romania, a commission is organized, consisting of members of the Council of State, deputies, representatives of the Front of the Socialist Unity, Central Council of Workers ' Control of Economic Activity and Social, as well as other central party and state bodies, which will annually analyze the work to resolve proposals, referrals, complaints and demands of working people to the State Council and report to the Council of State on the conclusions drawn from this analysis. + Chapter 5 Receipt, record and follow-up of proposals, complaints, complaints and requests + Article 25 The state or public bodies and organizations will ensure, through their specialized apparatus, the receipt, the record and the tracking of the resolution of the requests addressed to them, as well as the communication of the response to the petitioners. + Article 26 State or public bodies and organizations are obliged to bring to the attention of those interested the legal conditions that they must meet the requests whose resolution falls within their competence, indicating the necessary documents for the settlement. + Article 27 All proposals, referrals and complaints will be highlighted by people who respond to their receipt, record and pursuit of their resolution. + Article 28 The persons responsible for receiving, keeping records and following the resolution of proposals, complaints and complaints shall submit to the heads of state or public bodies and organizations and, on the basis of the given indications, follow their resolution. appropriate, as well as the communication of the response to the petitioners, within the time limits established + Article 29 State or public bodies and organizations are obliged to examine and solve, in compliance with the provisions of this law, the proposals, complaints and complaints addressed to the press bodies and to communicate to the editorial offices, within the deadlines provided by art. 11, the result of research and measures taken + Article 30 Central and local press organs, radio and television will use letters and audiences to mobilize the creative initiative of working people in the realization of the plan and all production tasks, for the cultivation of care for obstesc wealth, for the promotion of legality and norms of socialist ethics and equity. The media have the obligation to follow the resolution of the facts noticed, informing the public on how these problems have been solved by the respective bodies. + Chapter 6 Final provisions + Article 31 Proposals, complaints, complaints and requests addressed to state or public bodies and organizations shall be received, examined and resolved according to the provisions of this law, in so far as special legal provisions are not established other regulation. + Article 32 Decree no. 534/1966 on the reception, examination and resolution of applications, complaints, referrals and proposals of citizens, Law no. 21/1966 , and any other provisions to the contrary, shall be repealed. -----------