The European Union's executive commission has accused Romania of dodging its request to clarify its involvement in "extraordinary rendition" — the beyond-the-law transfer of U.S. terror suspects from country to country by the CIA. Romania joined the EU last year.

However, Sen. Mihail Popescu of the Social Democratic Party said that, while nobody can completely deny that some planes may have transported CIA detainees, Romania did not facilitate such practices.

The report also concedes there is clear information regarding military flights from the U.S.-run Mihail Kogalniceanu air base. According to the data, there is no reason to suspect that any of these flights transported or transferred detainees, the lawmakers said.

Swiss investigator Dick Marty and New York-based Human Rights Watch accused Romania and Poland of having permitted the CIA to run detention centers in their countries between 2002 and 2005.

Following an 18-month investigation, Marty, who was working for the Council of Europe human rights watchdog, alleged that prisoners were shackled and kept naked in isolation, in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and contrary to the countries' own laws and their commitment to human rights.

Human rights advocates say renditions were the CIA's way to outsource torture of prisoners to countries where it is permitted practice.

A Romanian official, a high-ranking veteran with inside knowledge of operations at the Mihail Kogalniceanu base, has told The Associated Press that CIA planes left for North Africa five times from 2004 to 2005 with their cargo and two CIA handlers aboard. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Votes against the parliamentary report came from the nationalist Greater Romania Party. Sen. Ilie Ilascu, said that nobody could say precisely what U.S. planes that landed at the airport were carrying. He also objected to the fact that part of the report was classified.

Party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor said last month that officials in the Black Sea port of Constanta had informed him that the U.S. had been involved in secret renditions.

The report concluded that no Romanian institution took part, either by negligence or omission, in the illegal transportation of prisoners on its territory.

It says that it has no knowledge of any civilian flight operated or rented by the CIA that landed in Romania or used its airspace. However, the committee also acknowledged that there is no civilian control over the military flights, other than the military voluntarily respecting airport regulations.

The lawmakers who voted the report asked for the declassification of part of it and asked for the issue to be discussed at the next session of the Supreme Council for the Defense of the Country, Romania's top defense body, which makes executive decisions.