PERSPECTIVES ON THE NEED OF IMPROVING PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL OVER NATIONAL SECURITY IN ROMANIA

The evolution of democratic state in Romania, dynamics and multitude of risks and threats to the security climate generated analysis and public debate topics relevant for political class and civil society, which determines, concomitant with the efficiency of the institutions’ activity in the security field, also an improvement of mechanisms of parliamentary control over them.Parliamentary control over the security sector is performed more or less effectively depending on the power of Parliament in relation to Government and the institutions from national security field. This power derives not only from Constitution and the legal framework of the organization and functioning of institutions from the national security field, but also from the rules of parliamentary procedure and from the practices established and improved over time, depending on the social-cultural characteristics of a nation, but especially on the security climate which these institutions are obliged to ensure it at optimum parameters