RIA was implemented varied from country to country, reflecting differences in the objectives chosen, institutional capacity and resource constraints. Romania is in the group of the EU countries which implemented the RIA system recently, starting with 2007. In one of its reports (1997), on the...

This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...