The Foundation for the Defense of the Citizen Against State Abuses (FACIAS) will sue the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity if it continues to refuse to make public the World Bank's report on the reform of special pensions.
FACIAS formally requested this information in March under the law on free access to information of public interest. FACIAS believes that the request is justified, given that the reform of special pensions is the key milestone in the NRRP for Romania's third claim. Basically, the World Bank report is of overwhelming importance for our country and will have a significant influence on the new legislative framework for special pensions.
The request by FACIAS was not only hampered by the lack of transparency of the Ministry of Labour, but also by a real lack of professionalism and double standards. In their official reply to FACIAS, the Ministry's representatives cite the former leadership's lack of transparency regarding the NRRP, but at the same time say they cannot make the World Bank report public.
Given that this report is practically one of the elements on which billions of NRRP funds depend, which is clearly an area of public interest, FACIAS has decided to go to court, in line with the role it took on when it announced a project to monitor the implementation of the NRRP.