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Activity of the Case File Investigation Department

Pursuant to the provisions of Art.      Department received and com-             • 2 in the South-East Region            the case files investigated, both
41 (1) of the Internal Procedure for    municated the above-mentioned              (Galați County 2),                    natural and legal persons were
solving claims and notifications        documents by delivering them to          • 5 in the South Muntenia Re-           complained against.
“The case file coordinator, having      the residence/headquarters of the          gion (Argeș County 1, Prahova
studied the claim and the evidence      parties which could not acquire            County 1, Dâmbovița County
attached to it, shall issue a resolu-   them, through the Romanian Post            2 and Ialomița County 1),
tion to initiate the investigation,     Services or a different communica-       • 4 in the North-East Region            The discrimination criteria iden-
as appropriate”. Thus, the case file    tion channel.                              (Iași County 1, Neamț County          tified in the case files investigated
subject to investigation, accompa-                                                 2, Suceava County 1),                 are as follows: disability 7 (26%),
nied by the resolution of the case                                               • 2 in the South-West Oltenia           ethnicity 3 (11%), professional cat-
file coordinator, is submitted to the   Statistics on the case files               Region (Olt County 1 and Gorj         egory 3 (11%), nationality 2 (7%),
Case File Investigation Department      investigated in 2020                       County 2) and                         motherhood 2 (7%), gender 1 (4%),

of the Assistance Department, so                                                 • 4 in the Centre Region (Covas-        social category 1 (4%), language 1
as to check any unclear aspects         In 2020, the NCCD Steering Board           na County 2, Brașov County            (4%), no criterion 7 (26%).
and to collect information, witness     allocated 27 case files to the Case        1, Sibiu County 1).
statements and evidence necessary       File Investigation Department. 29                                                The investigations conducted in
to solve that claim. After having       investigations were performed         Of the total number of 27 case             2020 entailed discussions with 173
performed this inspection, the          pursuant to the resolutions of the    files investigated, in 23 case files       persons, an average of approximately
investigation team draft an in-         case file coordinators, so as to      (79% of the total) the alleged act of      6 persons/investigation. Of them,
vestigation report, attaching the       fulfil the inspection goals (some     discrimination happened in urban           51 persons were in Bucharest and
documentation identified during         case files required several trips),   settings, and in the other 6 (21% of       Ilfov County and 122 persons across
the inspection.                         as follows:                           the total) in rural settings.              the country.

In 2020, in order to comply with           • 11 in the municipality of        In 16 of the case files investigated
the procedure for communicating              Bucharest and in the Ilfov       (53% of the total), the respondent
summons and decisions issued by              County,                          was a legal person, and in 14 case
the NCCD Steering Board, the mem-          • 1 in the North-West Region       files (47% of the total) the claimants
bers of the Case File Investigation          (Cluj County 1),                 were natural persons. In three of

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