PAM presents a bill for communes to retract decisions about expropriations before their implementation

PAM has submitted a bill giving communes and concerned institutions the opportunity to retract decisions about expropriations and to give them up entirely or partially before their implementation.

The legislative initiative, which was proposed by PAM parliamentary team, calls for amending chapter 43 of the law 7.81 related to expropriations for public benefit and to temporary occupation issued by royal decree 1.181.254 on May 6, 1982.

According to the bill introductory memo, the chapter stipulates that “in case there is a retraction of expropriation for any reason during any period of either the administrative or legal procedures before the sentence to move properties from real estate expropriations entirely or partially and if the cited real estate were in an area of dispute, then chapter 23 should be taken into consideration.

The bill refers to the fact that chapter 43 of the above-mentioned law raises many practical and realistic problematic issues, essentially in its connection with territorial communes, and most particularly local communes whose budgets suffer big financial burdens above their means during the expropriation lawsuit and defining financial compensations.

The bill asserts that “in case there is an appeal against compensations defined by the concerned committee, since the communes’ budget does not permit spending, the fact which stipulates practical and realistic move of the property” and not “before the sentence to move the property”, to give communes and concerned institutions the opportunity to retract expropriations decisions or to give them up entirely or partially in case compensations have exceeded the communes’ budget capacity”.