THE CIVIL SERVICE AT ROMANIA’S CENTENNIAL

In any modern state, an essential role in its functioning is played by the public servants, both in defining, but especially in applying public policies, as well as in exercising the public authority. In this study, the author will analyze the distinction between the notions of civil service, public authority and public office, the evolution of the notions of civil service and public servant, in close connection to the evolution of the Romanian state in its 100 years of existence and, will equally observe the European influence in this matter. The necessity of the existence of the civil service and the necessity of a strongly qualified personnel should also be emphasized, context which lead to the first regulation of the statute of the Romanian public servants and the subsequent evolutions, the recent amendments of the applicable legislation in this field provided in the Law of the Administrative Code of Romania, as well as the development tendencies of the civil service.