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Romania's Justice Minister Tudorel Toader said on Monday that Romanian legislation is not being drafted by Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), which only makes recommendations on standards and trends.
He also made remarks on his correspondence of late with GRECO.
"It was originally said that there is an official statement that says: the recommendations are mandatory. I wrote to GRECO: Give me that statement. It does not exist. There was just correspondence. I know that correspondence but I kept on asking for two things: give me, please, an official GRECO statement - do not read the regulation to me, because I know it, you can read it yourselves. Just release a statement with those exact words; did you tell the media in Romania that the recommendation is mandatory? No, we did not. [We meant] the regulation. We know the regulation and we respect it," said Toader.
