REQUIREMENTS OF THE LANGUAGE USED BY THE LEGISLATOR IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NORMATIVE TEXT. SPECIAL LOOK AT THE ROMANIAN LEGISLATIVE TECHNIQUE

Abstract

Any law is the reflection of a thinking before it is the expression of a will. The law can have beneficial or negative effects at the time of its application, and it can be validated or rejected by social practise depending on the quality of this thought, how the legislative solutions are expressed in words, and how they are structured. Therefore, in normative construction, drafting is an extremely important stage and should start from the fact that the law intervenes to respond to a social need. The scientific knowledge of this reality and the choice of a language appropriate to the norm’s recipients become necessary prerequisites for the normative act’s intended outcome. With reference to the standards established by the norms of Romanian legislative technique in the area of language, this article discusses the rules that a lawmaker must follow in the development and structure of the content of the normative act starting from these considerations.