Search

Considered to be one of the most important functions of the state, the national defense encompasses all the measures adopted both in peacetime and in crisis or war situations in order to guarantee the national sovereignty, independence and unity of the state. An appropriate training for the complexity of a crisis situation can not exclude the proper legal foundation, because without a well-built legislative structure the response to a threat against the state may be delayed or inexistent. In order to ensurethe normative framework, alongside the Romanian Constitution, the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 1/1999 offers, even with small gaps, the legal elements necessary for the realization of a unitary system of response to crisis in which various public, civil and military authorities intertwine their attributions in the establishment and implementation of siege-specific measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The application of the measures and the carrying out of activities specific to defence are ensured by the public authorities of the Romanian state, of which the authorities of the public administration play a vital role. In addition to the Parliament and to the President of Romania, the representative authorities in which the will of the people is expressed directly, the authorities of the local and central public administration, through their exercised powers, enforce the Constitution and the laws and guarantee the existence of an effective national defence system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With a distinguished role in the construction of the European identity, the principle of subsidiarity represents one of the most important principles specific to the European Union. Next to the principle of proportionality, the subsidiarity was included among the principles, which govern and control the delimitation and the execution of the competences, so that in the areas that are not of their exclusive competence, the Union intervenes only if the objectives of the proposed action cannot be satisfactory realized by the Member States not only on a central level but also on a local or regional level but can better realized on the level of the Union. Transferred in the area of the public administration as a veritable premise for an efficient administration, the principle of subsidiarity assures the execution of the compet ences by the authority of the local public administration on the administrative level closest to the citizen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]