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The article presents the legal regime in public law applicable to the mandate of the local representatives. Unlike the private law mandate, the public law mandate is not defined in any normative act, does not have a detailed regulation, his juridical nature and characteristics being established by the doctrine, starting from the common fundament of the public and private law mandate, which is of the essence of the mandate. The interdiction of the imperative mandate is in fact a means of protection of the freedom and independence of the members of the Parliament. On the political side, the disregard of the commitments of the elected person towards the political party may have as a consequence the expulsion from the party. In the second part of the article the arguments for a unitary regime of the national and local public law mandate are presented. In addition to that proposals have been made, on one side for reconsidering the case law of the Constitutional Court with respect to the public law mandate and the modification of Law no. 393/2004 concerning the local representatives, and on the other side, in accordance with the constitutional provisions which forbid the interactive mandate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2007 we conducted a research focusing on the evaluation culture and capacity in Romanian public institutions at regional and local levels. Among the conclusions there were statements referring to the lack of legislation and institutional support. Many hopes were related at that time to the adoption of the new National Strategy for Evaluation (NSE). In this article the authors try to assess the progress made in the last four years in the implementation of this strategy. The results are far from encouraging. None of the objectives of the strategy was met in time and the NSE seems to be abandoned in the midst of a political and economical crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]