Advanced Search

Law No. 481 Of 8 November 2004 (Republished) Civil Protection *)

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 481 din 8 noiembrie 2004 (*republicată*) privind protecţia civilă*)

Subscribe to a Global-Regulation Premium Membership Today!

Key Benefits:

Subscribe Now for only USD$40 per month.
LEGE no. 481 of 8 November 2004 (* republished *)-(* updated *) on civil protection *) ((updated until 29 June 2009 *)
ISSUER PARLIAMENT




--------------- *) The republished text of the law was published in the OFFICIAL GAZETTE no. 554 554 of 22 July 2008. This is the updated form of S.C. "Territorial Center of Electronic Computing" S.A. Piatra-Neamt until June 29, 2009, with the modifications and additions made by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 70 70 of 14 June 2009 . ___________ ** **) Republicated pursuant to art. II of Law no. 212/2006 to amend and supplement Law no. 481/2004 on civil protection, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 457 of 26 May 2006, giving the texts a new numbering. Law no. 481/2004 on civil protection was published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 1.094 1.094 of 24 November 2004 and has been amended by Law no. 241/2007 for the repeal of some regulations granting exemptions or exemptions from the payment of customs duties of some goods, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 496 496 of 24 July 2007. + Chapter I General provisions + Article 1 (1) Civil protection is a component of the national security system and represents an integrated set of specific activities, measures and organisational, technical, operational, humanitarian and public information, planned, organized and carried out according to the present law, in order to prevent and reduce the risks of disaster production, to protect the population, goods and the environment against the negative effects of emergency situations, armed conflicts and operative removal of their consequences and ensuring the necessary conditions survival of affected persons. (2) The civil protection activity is of national interest, has a permanent character and is based on the fulfilment of its obligations, according to the present law, to the central and local public administration authorities, to the other legal entities public and private Romanian, as well as individuals. + Article 2 The conception, organization, conduct and management of civil protection activities shall be established and carried out at local and national level on the principles of autonomy, subsidiarity, legality, responsibility, correlation of objectives and resources, cooperation and solidarity. + Article 3 (1) The duties of civil protection are as follows: a) identification and management of types of risks generating natural and technological disasters on the territory of Romania; b) collection, processing, storage, study and analysis of data and information on civil protection; c) preventive information and preparation of the population on the dangers to which it is exposed, the self-protection measures to be fulfilled, the means of protection provided, its obligations and the mode of action during the situation emergency; d) organization and ensuring the operational status and optimal intervention capacity of emergency services and other specialized bodies with attributions in the field; e) notifying public authorities and alarming the population in civil protection situations; f) protection of the population, material goods, cultural and archival values, as well as the environment against the effects of disasters and armed conflicts; g) ensuring the conditions of survival of the population in civil protection situations; h) organization and execution of operative intervention to reduce loss of life, limit and eliminate the effects of natural disasters and other civil protection situations; i) the asanation and neutralization of the territory of the ammunition left unexploded during the military conflicts; j) participation in specific international missions; k) establishment of reserves of specific financial and technical-material resources. (2) The attributions provided in par. (1) shall be completed with those contained in other incident or related normative acts, as well as with the provisions of international acts in the field, to which Romania is a party. (3) The performance of specific duties of civil protection is carried out, according to the law, by public or private emergency services, professional and voluntary. (4) Private emergency services shall be established by economic operators and institutions or constitute as commercial companies, under the law. + Article 4 (1) Administrative-territorial units, component localities, public institutions, economic operators and objectives shall be classified, in terms of civil protection, depending on the types of specific risks. (2) The classification criteria in terms of civil protection shall be elaborated by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and approved by Government decision * *). ___________ ** **) See Government Decision no. 642/2005 for the approval of the criteria for classification of administrative-territorial units, public institutions and economic operators in terms of civil protection, depending on the types of specific risks, published in the Official Gazette of the Romania, Part I, no. 603 603 of 13 July 2005. (3) At the level of the operational centers for county emergency situations and of the city of Bucharest, the local catalogue is established including the classification of localities, institutions, economic operators and objectives in terms of civil protection. (4) The data from the local catalogue provided in par. (3) is constantly updated and transmitted to the National Operational Center for Emergency Situations in the structure of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, which centralizes them in the national catalogue. + Article 5 (1) Central and local public administration authorities, public institutions, non-governmental organizations and economic operators, regardless of the form of ownership, shall be responsible for the application of civil protection measures established by this law. and through their own plans, according to their area of competence. (2) Natural persons and Romanian or foreign legal persons who have branches or branches in the country or carry out activities on the territory of Romania shall be subject to the provisions of this law. (3) Persons referred to in par. (2) are obliged to comply with the specific rules of civil protection, participate in specific training activities and contribute to carrying out the measures and actions provided for in civil protection plans and programmes or those ordered by the competent authorities during the intervention actions and the restoration of the state of normality. + Article 6 (1) The central and local public administration authorities are obliged to provide specialized intervention capacities, corresponding to the types of risks to which the territory and the population are exposed, in optimal response times, regardless of the place and the moment when the emergency situation occurs. (2) The organisational and training measures on the civil protection line shall be of a permanent nature and shall be enhanced to the establishment of exceptional states and to the declaration of mobilisation or wartime. (3) Civil protection measures shall be applied gradually, depending on the scale and intensity of the emergency situation. + Article 7 The coordination, control and provision of specialized technical assistance in the field of civil protection shall be ensured, at the central level, by the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform, through the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, and at local level, by the county inspectorates and the Bucharest Municipality Inspectorate for Emergency Situations. + Article 8 (1) The activities and civil protection measures shall be planned, organized and applied in accordance with the provisions of this law and the normative acts of subsequent application, of the national security strategy, with the plans and programs adopted by the Supreme Council of Defense of the Country, as well as with the programmes and procedures developed by the specialized bodies of the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. (2) In drawing up the national civil protection strategy, the principles, aims and objectives set out in the International Strategy for the Prevention of Catastrophes adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, such as and those established by the European Union's mechanisms in the field + Article 9 (1) For the purposes of this law, the following terms and expressions have the following meanings: a) disaster-the event due to the onset of types of risks, of natural or man-made causes, generating human losses, materials or changes in the environment and which, by scale, intensity and consequences, reach or exceed specific gravity levels established by the Emergency Management Regulations, developed and approved according to the law; b) civil protection situation-the situation generated by the imminent occurrence or occurrence of disasters, military conflicts and/or other unconventional situations that, through the level of gravity, endanger or affect life, the environment, the goods and cultural and heritage values; c) notice-the activity of transmitting authorized information about the imminent occurrence or occurrence of disasters and/or armed conflicts to central or local public administration authorities, as the case may be, in order to avoid d) warning-bringing to the attention of the population the necessary information about the imminent occurrence or occurrence of disasters; e) pre-reinforcement-transmission of warning messages/signals to the authorities about the likelihood of an air strike; f) alarmare-the transmission of messages/signals warning of the population about the imminent occurrence of disasters or an air attack; g) sheltering-specific measure of protection of the population, material goods, cultural and heritage values, during military hostilities and emergency situations, against their effects. The civil protection shelters are specially designed spaces for protection in specific situations, designed, executed, equipped, equipped and authorized according to the technical norms and instructions developed by the General Inspectorate for Situations of Emergency and approved by the Minister of Administration and Interior *); ___________ * *) See Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 1.435/2006 for the approval of the Methodological Norms for approval and authorization on fire safety and civil protection, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 814 814 of 3 October 2006. h) asanation-the set of works and operations executed for the removal or destruction of unexploded ordnance and decommissioning of land, other than shooting ranges of defense structures, public order and national security. (2) The terms and expressions relating to emergency situations, factors and types of risks, state of alert, operative intervention and evacuation have the meanings provided for in art. 2 of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 21/2004 on the National Emergency Management System, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 15/2005 . + Chapter II Civil protection organisation + Article 10 The organization of civil protection at the level of administrative-territorial units, public institutions, economic operators and non-governmental organizations is carried out in relation to their classification in terms of protection Civil and consists of: a) the establishment of bodies and structures for emergency management, including civil protection; b) establishment of emergency services; c) the classification of inspectors and/or specialized personnel in the field of civil protection; d) drawing up plans for the analysis and coverage of the types of risks in the territory of competence or in the field of activity; e) planning and organization of activities to prepare the population and employees on civil protection; f) the organization of the evacuation in case of civil emergency; g) the organisation of cooperation and cooperation on civil protection; h) planning of resources for the operation of the structures provided in a)-c), as well as for the realization of the measures set out in the plans provided d). + Article 11 Civil protection management is ensured by the components of the National Emergency Management System, according to the provisions Government Emergency Ordinance no. 21/2004 , approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 15/2005 . + Article 12 (1) The civil protection activity in Romania is coordinated by the Prime Minister, who leads this activity through the Minister of Interior and Administrative Reform, as president of the National Emergency Committee. (2) At the level of central and local public institutions, the civil protection activity is led by the presidents of the emergency committees, established according to the law, and at the level of economic operators, by the leaders to them. + Article 13 (1) At all levels of competence, specialized structures in the field of civil protection are established in structures with permanent or temporary activity in the National Emergency Management System. (2) At the level of municipalities, cities, communes, public institutions and economic operators included in the classification from the point of view of civil protection, they fall specialized personnel with attributions in the field of protection Civilian. (3) The specialized personnel with attributions in the field of civil protection shall fall within a) ministries and central public institutions to which, according to the law, no operative centers for emergency situations with permanent activity are established; b) public services devolved at county level, at the level of Bucharest and its sectors, subordinated to ministries that, according to the law, constitute operative centers for emergency situations with permanent activity; c) autonomous regions, national companies and companies that, through the specifics of their activity, can create potentially generating states of civil emergency situations or are exposed to major risks; d) the local councils of the administrative-territorial units in which, according to the territorial risk schemes drawn up according to the law by the emergency inspectorates, there is the potential danger of natural disasters caused by earthquakes, floods and forest fires. (4) The specialized staff provided in par. (2) permanently ensure the coordination of planning and carrying out civil protection activities and measures, participate in the preparation of emergency services, employees and/or the population and ensure the coordination of technical secretariats of emergency committees and emergency cells, respectively. (5) Persons referred to in par. (3), with the exception of those assigned to commercial companies and autonomous kings, are civil servants and, during the performance of their duties, are vested, as civil protection inspectors, with the exercise of public authority. The quality of civil protection inspector shall be assigned by order or by written provision of the employer. (6) The specialized staff may be employed or in service, as the case may be, only after obtaining a certificate of professional skills under the conditions established by the methodology issued by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations. (7) Depending on the complexity and volume of the duties, the specialized staff provided in par. ((2) may, by cumulation, also perform the tasks of the technical framework in the field of fire defence. + Article 14 When establishing exceptional measures, as well as in situations of armed conflict, existing structures in peacetime, as well as those to be completed or set up to be mobilised, perform the functions and duties on the civil protection line provided by law. + Article 15 (1) The activity of prevention in the field of civil protection and/or operative intervention shall be ensured by the emergency services, through specialized structures, in accordance with the competences and attributions established according to the law. (2) The professional or voluntary emergency services and the other specialized structures for emergency intervention and action, constituted by the competent authorities under the law, include personnel and formations trained in Civil protection specialties. (3) The provisions of par. (2) shall also apply to private emergency services, established according to the legal provisions. (4) Performance criteria for the parties referred to in par. (2) and (3) shall be drawn up by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and approved by order of the Minister of Administration and Interior *). __________ * *) See Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 718/2005 for the approval of the Performance Criteria on the organizational structure and the endowment of voluntary emergency services, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 636 636 of 20 July 2005, as amended and supplemented, Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 158/2007 for the approval of the Performance Criteria on the establishment, classification and endowment of private emergency services, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 150 150 of 1 March 2007, and Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 360/2004 for the approval of the Performance Criteria on the organizational structure and the endowment of professional emergency services, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 958 958 of 19 October 2004. + Article 16 The specialized coordination of the civil protection activities provided for in art. 15 15 para. (1) is carried out by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, through its specialized structures, and at local level, through the county emergency inspectorates and Bucharest municipality or, during the exceptional states of mobilization or at war, through the command points that ensure from time of peace at the level of the central public administration authorities, the county, municipal, sectors, city, other important localities, as well as some public institutions and economic operators. + Chapter III Rights and obligations of citizens + Section 1 Rights + Article 17 Citizens have the right to enter into voluntary contracts for the assignment of voluntary emergency services with representatives of local public administration authorities. The status of voluntary personnel from voluntary emergency services is approved by Government decision, at the proposal of the Ministry of Administration and Interior * *). _________ ** **) See Government Decision no. 1.579/2005 for the approval of the Staff Regulations of Voluntary Emergency Services, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 19 19 of 10 January 2006. Currently the name "Ministry of Administration and Interior" has been replaced by the name "Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform", according to art. 15 lit. c) of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 24/2007 establishing reorganisation measures within the central public administration approved by Law no. 98/2008 . + Article 18 (1) Citizens who have suffered damage as a result of the effects of a disaster or armed conflict or as a result of the execution of the intervention by emergency services are entitled to emergency aid and compensation, as the case may be. ((2) The compensation is granted following the written request of the injured one, addressed to the mayor, on the basis of the act of finding prepared by the competent bodies and the decision of the local council, from the funds provided in the local budget with this destination or those approved by Government decision. + Article 19 Staff of voluntary emergency services and citizens participating in preventive and intervention actions for limitation, recovery and rehabilitation during emergency situations benefit from monetary compensation, social and other rights. facilities established in the Staff Regulations provided for in art. 17. + Section 2 Obligations + Article 20 (1) Citizens are obliged to: a) comply with and apply the rules and civil protection rules established by the central and local public administration authorities, as well as by the heads of public institutions, economic agents or non-governmental organizations, after case; b) to carry out the civil protection measures ordered, under the law, by the competent authorities or by the personnel invested with the exercise of the public authority of the public emergency services; c) inform the authorities or emergency services empowered, by any means, including by telephone, by calling 112, about the imminent occurrence or occurrence of any emergency situation about which they are aware; d) to inform the professional emergency services or the police, as the case may be, including by telephone, by calling the number 112, about the discovery of ammunition or ammunition elements left unexploded; e) participate in the preparation of civil protection at the place where they operate; f) to participate in the maintenance of shelters in personal property buildings and, in case of necessity, to the arrangement of sheltering spaces in the field; g) to provide personal means of protection, sanitary kit, food and water supply, as well as other materials of first necessity for the protection of their families; h) to allow, in situations of civil protection, the access of forces and means of intervention in premises or on privately owned land; i) to allow the installation of means of alarm on private property buildings or belonging to the associations of tenants or owners, as the case may be, without payment, as well as the access of authorized persons, in order to maintain them; j) accept and carry out the evacuation from the affected areas or endangered by disasters, according to the measures ordered and notified by the competent authorities; k) to request the opinions and authorizations on civil protection, in the cases provided by law. (2) The fulfillment of the obligations provided in par. (1) returns, corresponding to the situation in which they are found, and to foreign citizens who carry out activities, reside or are in transit, as the case may be, on the territory of Romania (3) Citizens declared unfit for work on medical grounds are exempt, during the intervention in support of civil protection forces, by the provision of services or participation in the execution of works, the evacuation of goods and the like, which I assume physical + Chapter IV Duties and obligations relating to civil protection + Section 1 Tasks of public administration authorities + Article 21 (1) The central and local public administration authorities shall ensure the establishment and integration of civil protection measures in the economic and social development plans and programs that are elaborated at national, county and local level and follow achieving them. (2) The measures and prevention actions in civil protection plans shall be planned and executed as a priority by all central and local public administration authorities, according to their competences. (3) The central and local public administration authorities shall bear the full responsibility for ensuring the conditions of survival of the population affected by the consequences of natural disasters and other civil protection situations. (4) Provide the conditions provided in par. (3) is carried out through emergency services, public services of communal household, institutions and economic operators, including through the use, under the law, of goods from state reserves and services and goods provided by Romanian non-governmental organizations or by local communities and the population in the unaffected areas, by foreign states and organizations or with international character. + Article 22 The Government exercises the following main tasks a) approves the national strategy of civil protection and specific normative acts, according to the competence; b) analyze periodically and whenever the situation requires the activity of civil protection; c) approve the national insurance plan with human, material and financial resources for emergency management; d) proposes, according to the law, to the President of Romania to establish and end the state of emergency e) conclude international agreements in the field of civil protection; f) adopt decisions granting emergency aid and compensation to the affected natural and legal persons; g) approves the planning of exercises and applications for civil protection of an international nature; h) calls, if necessary, for international support; i) approves the granting of aid, following requests, to states affected by disasters. + Article 23 (1) Ministries, autonomous public authorities and other specialized bodies of the central public administration shall exercise the following main tasks: a) establish the tasks of their own structures; b) develop plans and programmes on civil protection in its own area of competence; c) provide the necessary resources for intervention d) constitute operational intervention capacities, which, in case of necessity, make available to the local public administration authorities; e) initiate programs or research topics in the field; f) constitutes the database specific to its own field of activity, necessary for civil protection; g) ensure the participation of representatives, experts and specialists in the activities of the National Emergency Committee; h) make available to the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reformation qualified personnel in order to establish the teams of experts for evaluation or personnel necessary for intervention, as the case may be; i) provide the National Emergency Committee with the data and information requested for the elaboration of the national civil protection strategy, civil protection plans and programs, as well as the General Inspectorate for Emergency situations for the establishment of the own database; j) ensure the management of specific risk types and the performance of support functions through structures specific to areas of competence, according to the law. The organization and functioning of these structures shall be established by Government decision. (2) The Ministry of Defense plans and executes civil protection measures, according to its own specific organization and plans and joint plans with other ministries. + Article 24 (1) The Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform shall exercise, through the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, the following main tasks: a) elaborates and presents to the Government, for approval, the draft national strategy of civil protection; b) elaborates and endorses draft specific normative acts; c) coordinate evacuation activities, according to the plans drawn up; d) organize and conduct the activity of asanation of the territory of the remaining unexploded ordnance during the military conflicts; e) periodically analyze, together with the central public administration authorities, the stage of carrying out the necessary measures to be taken in civil protection situations; f) develop methodological norms for the preparation of internal and external emergency plans of economic operators *); _________ * *) See Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 684/2005 for the approval of the Methodological Norms on planning, preparation and intervention in case of nuclear accident or radiological emergency, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 538 538 of 24 June 2005, and Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 647/2005 for the approval of the Methodological Norms on the elaboration of emergency plans in case of accidents involving dangerous substances, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 460 460 of 31 May 2005. g) organizes and conducts exercises and specialized applications; h) coordinate actions to limit and eliminate the consequences of natural disasters and other civil protection situations; i) collaborate with international specialized bodies. (2) The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations is a regulatory authority in the field of civil protection. (3) The state control in the field of civil protection is carried out through regulatory activities, endorsement, authorization, attestation, recognition, verification and control and is exercised by the Prevention Inspection from the structure of the General Inspectorate for Emergency situations, respectively through the prevention inspections of the county inspectorates and the city of Bucharest, in order to apply the legal provisions throughout Romania. (4) The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations fulfils the role of national contact point in relations with international organizations. + Article 25 The county councils, the General Council of Bucharest, the local councils of the municipalities, towns and communes and the local councils of the sectors of Bucharest have the following main tasks: a) approve the organization of civil protection at the level of the administrative-territorial unit, analyze annually and whenever necessary the work carried out and adopt measures to improve it; b) approve the annual and prospective plans for the provision of human, material and financial resources to prevent and manage emergency situations; c) participate, according to the law, to ensure the financing of measures and civil protection actions, as well as emergency services and structures that have legal powers in this field; d) establish, under the law, special taxes on the civil protection line; e) establish, under the law and with the opinion of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, centers for training and evaluation of personnel from voluntary emergency services; f) manage, store, maintain and ensure the preservation of the equipment and civil protection materials through the specialized services in subordination; g) provide the necessary spaces for the operation of the inspectorates for appropriate emergency situations, their security and security and the operational centers, as well as the spaces for the storage of intervention materials + Article 26 The Prefect has the following main tasks: a) approve the operational and training plans on the civil protection line and the planning of the exercises and other activities carried out at the level of the administrative-territorial unit; b) pursues the performance of civil protection measures at the level of the administrative-territorial unit; c) has, according to the law, the establishment of the state of alert, activation or use, as the case may be, of the intervention d) approve the scheme with territorial risks drawn up by the emergency inspectorate; e) ensure conditions for the smooth running and integration of the activity of intervention forces from other counties or international teams, as the case may be, arrived in the administrative-territorial unit for the purpose of limiting and removing the effects of disasters; f) presents to the county council or the General Council of the Municipality of Bucharest, as the case may be, proposals to supplement the system of notification and alarm of the population, the shelter fund, the material base and other protection measures population, material goods, cultural values and the environment; g) exercise control of the application of measures in civil protection situations. + Article 27 The Mayor has the following main tasks a) proposes to the local council the organizational structure of civil protection; b) bring to fruition the decisions of the local council on civil protection; c) approve the operative plans, preparation and planning of the specialized exercises; d) proposes the funds necessary to carry out civil protection measures; e) conduct the exercises, applications and training activities on civil protection; f) coordinate the work of voluntary emergency services; g) approve the cooperation plans with neighbouring localities and non-governmental bodies; h) has measures and controls the maintenance of the premises of collective accommodation by their administrator; i) aims to achieve, maintain and operate the links and means of notification and alarm in civil protection situations; j) responds to the alarming, protection and preparation of the population for civil protection situations; k) request technical assistance and support for the management of civil protection situations; l) exercise control of the application of civil protection measures at local level; m) ensures the evaluation and centralization of requests for aid and compensation in civil protection situations, as well as the distribution of those received; n) directly coordinates the evacuation of the population from the areas affected by the civil protection situations; o) establish the necessary measures to ensure the feeding, accommodation and supply of energy and water to the evacuated population; p) has measures to ensure public order in the sinister area; q) cooperate with the mayors of the localities or the surrounding sectors, as the case may be, in matters of common interest; r) manage, store, maintain and preserve the technique, equipment and civil protection materials, through subordinate specialized services. + Section 2 Obligations of heads of public institutions, economic operators, designers, builders, beneficiaries and employees + Article 28 (1) The leaders of the public institutions, owners and managers of economic operators, regardless of the form of ownership, have the following main obligations: a) ensure the identification, monitoring and evaluation of specific risk factors, generating dangerous events; b) establish and aim to carry out the measures and actions to prevent and prepare the intervention, depending on the classification of civil protection; c) organize and equip, based on the performance criteria developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, private emergency services and establish the regulation of organization and operation of these or conclude conventions or contracts with other voluntary or private emergency services, which have forces and means capable of intervening operatively and effectively in the case of civil protection situations; d) participate in exercises and applications of civil protection and direct the actions of alarm, evacuation, intervention, limitation and removal of the consequences of emergency situations carried out by own units; e) provide free of charge to the intervention forces called in emergency support for the equipment, substances, means and antidotes appropriate to the specific risks; f) organize the training and training of personnel assigned to work on civil protection; g) ensure the alarm of the population in the risk area created as a result of their own activities; h) provide, annually, in their own budget, funds for expenses necessary to carry out civil protection activities; i) notify the competent persons and bodies of the risk factors and shall immediately notify them of the imminent occurrence or occurrence of a civil protection situation at the level of the institution or economic operator; j) establish and transmit to carriers, distributors and users of products the specific rules and protection measures, correlated with the foreseeable risks to use, handling, transport and storage; k) conclude contracts, conventions or cooperation protocols with other professional or voluntary emergency services; l) keep the means of alarmare transmissions, shelter spaces and their own technical means, intended for shelter or intervention, keep their records and check them periodically; m) meet other obligations and measures established, according to the law, by the competent bodies and bodies. (2) The leaders of public institutions and economic operators, regardless of the form of ownership, are obliged to allow the installation, without payment, of means of alarm on their own buildings. (3) Economic operators whose activity presents hazards of major accidents involving dangerous substances shall also be subject to the provisions of the specific legislation. + Article 29 Natural or legal persons who hold buildings in the indivision or use them jointly shall be obliged to cooperate in the performance of civil protection measures for the entire immovable or immovable property. + Article 30 (1) The designers, builders and investment beneficiaries shall have the following obligations: a) to provide in the technical documentation of investments the specific measures, equipment and facilities necessary, according to the regulations in force, and to ensure their realization before the investment is put into operation; b) obtain all opinions, authorizations and agreements on civil protection, according to the law, and to follow the implementation of the measures established in them; c) assess the seismic risk of the area in which the works are carried out and draw up the project, respectively to execute the construction or installation according to the seismic risk assessed. (2) In all phases of research, design, execution and for their entire duration of existence, construction and furnishings, equipment, machinery and technological installations for authorization in the field of civil protection shall be subject to an examination systematic and qualified to identify, assess and control risks, under the conditions laid down by specific regulations. (3) The obligation to execute the activities provided in par. (2) returns to persons who compete in the design, realization, operation, maintenance, repair, postuse of constructions, equipment and technological installations, according to the obligations and responsibilities provided by law. (4) The methodology for the identification, evaluation and control of risks shall be developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, approved by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform and shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Romania, Part I. ----------- Alin. ((5) of art. 30 30 has been repealed by letter b) art. VI of EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 70 70 of 14 June 2009 , published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 444 444 of 29 June 2009. + Article 31 Employees have the following rights and obligations: a) to benefit, free of charge, from personal protective equipment, medical treatment and antidotes, if they are assigned to economic agents or institutions with sources of nuclear, chemical or biological risk; b) to benefit from the social protection measures provided by law for periods of interruption of activity, imposed by civil protection situations; c) comply with established rules, rules and civil protection measures; d) to participate in trainings, exercises, applications and other forms of specific training. + Chapter V Preparation for civil protection + Article 32 The preparation for civil protection includes the preparation of the population and employees, the preparation of emergency services, the training of staff with leadership positions on the line of civil protection, as well as specialist staff. + Article 33 (1) The professional training of emergency services and other forces with which they are cooperated shall be carried out on the basis of the annual training programmes approved by their heads. ((2) Planning the exercises and cooperation applications on civil protection in which they participate, according to their specificity, emergency services, protection and support forces and the population is approved by the prefect, mayor or minister internals and administrative reform, as appropriate. (3) Intercounty/regional and international cooperation exercises are approved by the Government, at the proposal of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform. (4) In the planning documents for the preparation of civil protection, the necessary material and financial resources shall be provided, as well as who shall provide them. + Article 34 (1) Initiation, qualification, improvement or specialization of the heads of specialized civil protection structures, of the heads of voluntary and private emergency services, of the specialized personnel referred to in art. 13 13 para. (2), as well as other persons with attributions in this field shall be carried out through courses, convocations or training and shall be carried out in the National Center for the Improvement of Emergency Management Preparedness and in the area centers of to him, as well as in the National Institute of Administration or other educational institutions. (2) The preparation for civil protection in military educational institutions is mandatory and is carried out on the basis of the topics developed with the consultation of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations. + Article 35 The training, improvement and specialization of personnel of professional emergency services and of the component structures of the National Emergency Management System are carried out in the educational institutions subordinated to the The Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform, the Ministry of Defense, as well as other competent units in the country and abroad. + Article 36 (1) Preventive information and education of the population on civil protection shall be compulsory and shall be ensured by: educational institutions and education of all grades, media and professional services for situations of Emergency. (2) The Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, in collaboration with the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, establishes, through the protocol, the topics and the practical-applicative activities of education on civil protection, which are included in the programs education, as well as in the plans of extracurricular activities. (3) Public and private companies, national and local, radio and television, as well as the written press are obliged to ensure the presentation in the broadcasts, respectively in their news and reports, of the potential risks, preventive measures and the mode of action and behavior of the population during civil emergency situations. (4) The preventive information and education of the population regarding civil protection shall also be attended by non-governmental organizations of public interest, according to the statutes and their activities. + Article 37 (1) The training of employees on civil protection shall be ensured systematically, as a rule with the fire prevention and extinguishing training, under the conditions established by the general provisions developed by the General Inspectorate for Situations of Emergency and approved by the Minister of Administration and Interior *). __________ * *) See Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 712/2005 for the approval of the General provisions on training of employees in the field of emergency situations, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 599 of 12 July 2005, with subsequent amendments and completions. (2) The participation of employees in training is the duty of service + Article 38 Periodically, based on the plans and training programs and with the approval of the mayor of the locality, public alarm exercises are carried out. + Chapter VI Protection of the population and material goods + Article 39 The protection of the population, material goods and cultural values shall be carried out through an assembly of activities consisting of: notification, warning and alarm, sheltering, nuclear, biological and chemical protection, evacuation and other technical measures and Specific organizational. + Section 1 Notice, warning and alarm + Article 40 (1) The notification shall be carried out by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations or professional emergency services, as the case may be, based on the information received from the population or from the structures that monitor the sources of risk. (2) The warning of the population shall be carried out by the central or local public administration authorities, as the case may be, by means of specific warning, based on the notification received from the competent structures. + Article 41 (1) Pre-alarm is carried out by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and professional emergency services, as the case may be, based on the information received from the General Staff, and specialized structures within the categories of armed forces, on the basis of cooperation plans drawn up in this regard. ((2) The alarm of the population is carried out by the central or local public administration authorities, as the case may be, by the specific means, based on the notification received from the competent + Article 42 (1) Specific warning and alarm means shall be installed in the places established by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and professional emergency services. (2) The technical rules on the installation of the integrated system of warning and alarm of the population and the instructions on signals and warning and alarm messages shall be elaborated by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, approved by order of the Minister of Administration and Interior * *) and shall be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I. __________ ** **) See Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 886/2005 for the approval of the Technical Rules on the integrated national system of notification, warning and alarm of the population, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 899 899 of 7 October 2005, and Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 1.259/2006 for the approval of the Rules on the organization and insurance of the activity of notification, warning, pre-reinforcement and alarm in civil protection situations, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 349 349 of 18 April 2006. (3) At the request of the presidents of the emergency committees, the warning and alarm messages shall be transmitted compulsorily, with priority and free of charge, through any public or private audiovisual operator on the territory of Romania. + Article 43 In the event of an imminent attack, in a situation where the state of war has not been declared, the first messages of pre-weapon and alarm shall be transmitted with the approval of the Minister of Interior and Administrative Reform, based on the notices of the General Staff and specialised structures within the categories of armed forces, in accordance with the cooperation plans drawn up in this regard. + Article 44 (1) The use of means of alarm in case of disasters shall be executed only with the approval of the mayor of the locality, of the head of the public institution or of the economic operator involved, as the case may be, or of their (2) The system of notification, warning and alarm at localities, public institutions and economic operators shall be checked periodically by the execution of training and exercises. (3) The use of technical means of alarm and alerting in violation of the legal provisions and the technical norms provided in art. 42 42 para. ((2) is prohibited. + Section 2 Sheltering + Article 45 (1) For the protection of the population and goods of the national cultural heritage from the effects of the attacks in the air, the national shelter system is carried out, which includes: shelters for order points intended for the National Management System of Emergency Situations, public civil protection shelters under the administration of local councils and the private shelter fund made by economic operators and owners of buildings. (2) Public administration authorities, public institutions, economic operators and owners of buildings have the obligation to provide for investment plans and to carry out civil protection shelters. (3) The central and local public administration authorities and the emergency services at all levels of competence will identify and establish the possibilities of use for the shelter of mine galleries, tunnels, caves, grottoes, etc. existing near densely populated areas or in areas provided for arrangement of sinister camps, evacuees or refugees. (4) The construction categories to which the realization of civil protection public shelters is mandatory, as well as the shelters that are arranged as order points are approved by Government decision, at the proposal of the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform * **). __________ *** ***) See Government Decision no. 560/2005 for the approval of the construction categories to which the realization of civil protection shelters is mandatory, as well as those to which the order points are set up, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 526 526 of 21 June 2005, as amended. Currently, the name "Ministry of Administration and Interior" has been replaced by the name "Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform", according to art. 15 lit. c) of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 24/2007 establishing reorganisation measures within the central public administration approved by Law no. 98/2008 . (5) The civil protection authorities provided for in the technical documentation of investments shall be technically endorsed, prior to the issuance of the building permits, by the professional emergency services, according to the methodology developed by The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform and published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I* ***). __________ ****) See also the footnote corresponding to the asterisk at the end of art. 9 9 para. ((1) lit. g). (6) In peacetime public civil protection shelters, except for premises set up as command points, may be used for other destinations, in compliance with technical norms, with the obligation to be issued in emergency situations in maximum 24 hours and with prior information of operational centers within professional emergency services. (7) Public civil protection advices shall be inspected periodically by specialist personnel of professional emergency services; holders and users of these shelters shall be obliged to meet the established rules and measures. for the maintenance of the shelters and their utility facilities in working order. ((8) The construction of shelters and the arrangement of other sheltering spaces contained in the mobilization plans shall be carried out when the respective plans are implemented. + Section 3 Asanarea of the remaining unexploded ordnance territory + Article 46 The asanarea of the land and the neutralization of the ammunition left unexploded during the armed conflicts are executed by specialized subunits and pyrotechnic specialists from the professional emergency services subordinated to the General Inspectorate for Emergency situations, according to the instructions and technical norms developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and approved by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform. + Article 47 ((1) The munitions shall be destroyed in polygons of the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform and the Ministry of Defense or on land provided by the local public administration authorities in whose administrative-territorial area is executed Works of asanation. The land established for the destruction of the ammunition is arranged according to the specific instructions and technical norms, developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations. (2) Local public administration authorities or, as the case may be, public institutions and economic operators shall ensure the intervention sub-unit that performs pyrotechnic asanation, access to the land and, free of charge, auxiliary working hand, means of transport with drivers and related fuel, materials, health assistance, as well as accommodation and feeding of the necessary staff to these works. (3) The security of ammunition and land in the process of asanation, as well as the accompanying of the transport of munitions shall be carried out by authorized personnel. + Article 48 (1) The natural and legal persons who are aware of the existence of the munitions are required to immediately notify the operational center of the professional emergency service, the integrated emergency dispatch, the police or the mayor, as the case may be. (2) It is prohibited for unauthorized individuals to pick up, manipulate or use unexploded ordnance. + Article 49 The explosive materials and the means of ignition necessary for the destruction of the ammunition left unexploded shall be made available to pyrotechnic specialists, at the request of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, through the gendarmes inspectorates county. + Article 50 The intervention formations provided for in art. 46 executes free snow destruction actions that endanger the localities or the safety of the citizen. + Section 4 Nuclear, radiological, chemical and biological protection + Article 51 (1) The nuclear, radiological, chemical and biological protection of the population is carried out by means of individual, collective protection or other specific technical and organizational measures, with priority in risk areas. (2) Public institutions and economic operators who produce, transport, store or handle dangerous substances in quantities that may endanger the life and health of citizens organize and execute the control of radioactive contamination, chemical and biological of raw materials and finished products and carry out decontamination measures of their own staff, land, buildings and machinery. + Article 52 The means of individual protection of citizens shall be ensured according to the criteria developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and approved by Government decision *). __________ * *) See Government Decision no. 501/2005 for the approval of the Criteria on the provision of individual protection means for citizens, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 482 482 of 8 June 2005. + Article 53 The decontamination is carried out through special operations and techniques carried out by emergency services, some military units and economic operators, according to the technical norms developed by the relevant ministries and endorsed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations. + Article 54 (1) The deposition is to take specific measures to identify and eliminate polluting sources, to limit, remove or neutralise polluters of water, air and land. (. The measures of depollution shall be accompanied, where appropriate, by the evacuation of persons and animals from the polluted environment or from the prohibition of the use of contaminated water, food and feed. (. The marketing or use of contaminated goods shall be prohibited. (4) Economic operators and public institutions have the obligation to immediately warn the population of the risks of pollution and contamination of areas bordering those units and to intervene with the forces and means available to them for protection population and removal of pollution effects. + Section 5-a Evacuation + Article 55 The evacuation is executed on the basis of the plans prepared for this purpose, according to the norms and instructions developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations. + Article 56 (1) The transition to the execution of the disaster evacuation action shall be decided by the mayor or the prefect, as the case may be, on the proposal of the competent emergency committee. (2) In situations of armed conflict, the evacuation is approved by the Supreme Council of National Defense, at the proposal of the Minister of Defense. + Article 57 The principles of evacuation in situations of armed conflict are established by Government decision * *). ___________ ** **) See Government Decision no. 1.222/2005 on the establishment of the principles of evacuation in situations of armed conflict, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 933 933 of 19 October 2005. + Article 58 The access of unauthorized persons to the affected and dangerous areas, delimited and properly marked, which falls under the civil protection situations, is prohibited. + Chapter VII Limiting and removing the consequences of civil protection situations + Article 59 (1) Limitation and removal of consequences of civil protection situations include all activities and actions carried out in order to restore the situation of normality in the affected areas. (2) The actions to limit and remove the consequences of civil protection situations participate in intervention structures within the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, existing in peacetime or that can be mobilized in short time, Military units and formations of the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform, Ministry of Defense, voluntary emergency services, Red Cross formations and other structures with attributions in the field. (3) The operative intervention of the structures provided in par. ((2) is carried out on the basis of the intervention and cooperation plans drawn up by the competent authorities, within the limits of the support functions assigned to be provided by the ministries, the other central bodies and non-governmental organizations to prevent and manage emergency situations. + Article 60 (1) In limiting and removing the consequences of disasters, private emergency services are also required to participate. (2) The authorization of private emergency services is carried out on the basis of methodological norms developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, approved by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform. + Article 61 The principles of organization, management and the use of professional and voluntary emergency services, intervention units, specialized and private intervention formations in actions to limit and remove the consequences civil protection situations, as well as the operative plans drawn up for this purpose shall be established by regulations, orders and instructions developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and approved by the Minister of Interior and Reform administrative. + Article 62 (1) The management of the intervention activities shall be carried out through the network of operational and operative centers or of the existing command points to central and local public administration authorities, as well as to public institutions and operators economic. (2) The direct management of the intervention operations shall be ensured by the action commander, empowered according to the law, which can be helped in carrying out the tasks by the operative group and the advanced operative point. (3) The operative group shall be constituted, by order of the prefect, of the personnel with decision-making power and specialists of the emergency services of the public authorities, economic operators and institutions involved in the management of the emergency situation. (4) The advanced operative point is mobile and shall be provided by the professional emergency service or the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, through a specially equipped and properly framed truck. Depending on the location to the affected area, the role of the operative point can be taken over by the operational center. ((5) Until the arrival on the spot of the action commander, the management of the operations shall ensure the commander or head of the emergency service intervention party, with the support of the representatives of the local public administration authority or of the owner, as appropriate. ((6) The coordination of the elaboration and development of recovery, rehabilitation or restoration programs during emergency situations shall be ensured by the representatives of the authorities, institutions or economic operators established by the committees for Competent emergency situations. + Chapter VIII Financial and financial insurance + Section 1 Material insurance + Article 63 Central and local public administration authorities, public institutions and economic operators have the obligation to plan and realize the material and financial provision of civil protection, according to the law. + Article 64 (1) The endowment and endowment of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and subordinate structures with military-specific equipment, equipment and materials shall be provided by the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform, based on the norms of endowment and endowment approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform. (2) The endowment of civil protection structures, other than those provided in par. (1), shall be carried out on the basis of the norms developed by the legal entities that constituted these structures, approved by the county emergency inspectorates and approved by the prefect. + Article 65 The contracting and supply of technical and material shall be ensured by each beneficiary for a fee. The technique and other categories of materials necessary for civil protection shall also be ensured from donations, sponsorships, temporary loans or other legally constituted sources. + Article 66 (1) The maintenance, repair, storage and record of technical means of civil protection, as well as the normal duration of their use shall be carried out according to the technical norms developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and approved by the Minister of Administration and Interior. *) __________ * *) See Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior No. 1.180/2006 for the approval of the Technical Rules on the maintenance, repair, storage and registration of technical means of civil protection, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 168 168 of 22 February 2006. (2) The mounting, maintenance, repair and operation of the alarsea, communication and civil protection information systems shall be ensured with the support of the relevant economic operators, on the basis of the contracts or legal conventions concluded with them. + Article 67 (1) Teaching materials necessary for civil protection: films, diaphylms, boards, manuals, brochures, leaflets, magazines and others shall be carried out by the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform and shall be provided free of charge to public administration authorities, public institutions and economic operators. (2) Public authorities, public institutions and economic operators have the obligation to realize materials for the popularization of civil protection activities, radio and television broadcasts, as well as other activities with own resources or others legally constituted, with the agreement of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and professional emergency services. + Section 2 Financial insurance + Article 68 ((1) The financing of civil protection expenses shall be ensured, according to the law, from the state budget, from the local budgets, from the budgets of autonomous public institutions, of public institutions fully or partially financed from their own income and from the own budgets of economic operators, as appropriate. (2) The financing of emergency services shall be provided by the legal persons who constituted them. (3) The investment objectives of national interest for civil protection shall be financed from the state budget. + Article 69 ((1) The expenses for the realization of civil protection shelters related to construction with housing destination, offices, shopping centers or for any public events and which, according to the specific norms, must be provided, from the construction, with such shelters shall be borne by the owner. (2) For the partial or full support of the costs of carrying out civil protection shelters related to the construction with a dwelling destination, funds can be allocated for subsidies, which are granted to citizens only once, under the conditions established by Government decision. + Article 70 The financing of emergency aid, compensation, as well as unforeseen works or expenses shall be provided from the intervention fund made available to the Government to eliminate the effects of disasters. + Article 71 For the financing of current and capital expenditure on civil protection may be used, according to the law, donations, sponsorships, income from services, contributions of companies and insurance or reinsurance houses, as well as other legal sources. + Article 72 The foundation and preparation of the technical documentation on investments related to civil protection are carried out on the basis of methodological norms developed by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and approved by order of the Minister of Interior and administrative reform. + Article 73 ((1) The expenses for equipping with equipment, technical means and materials necessary for the zonal civil protection training centers shall be borne by the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform, within the limits of the amounts approved with this destination. The running of funds is through the budget of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (2) The county councils of the counties in which the zonal training centers for the specific civil protection training operate will provide them with the land, the buildings, as well as the maintenance expenses related to them. + Chapter IX Contraventions and penalties + Article 74 Violation of the provisions of this law attracts civil, contravention or criminal liability, as the case may be + Article 75 The following facts are contrary to the provisions of this law: a) non-inclusion of civil protection measures in economic-social development programs or budget projects; b) non-organization of voluntary emergency services or non-provision of endowment and their professional training; c) failure to provide notice, warning, alarm or evacuation of the population in civil protection situations, as well as unauthorized transmission of civil protection messages; d) failure to ensure the identification, monitoring and evaluation of risk factors generating dangerous events or the non-establishment of protective measures against their negative effects; e) failure to provide endowment, endowment and equipping with technical means of civil protection, as well as to ensure their operativeness; f) non-solicitation of opinions, agreements or authorizations on civil protection or failure to comply with the measures and conditions laid down therein; g) non-elaboration of regulations, rules, methodologies and provisions on civil protection; h) non-provision in the technical-economic documents of investments of shelters, facilities and public utility measures on civil protection or their term non-realization; i) Preservation of public protection shelters in good condition of use during exceptional situations, corresponding to their destinations; j) non-participation in training, exercises and training applications on civil protection; k) failure to comply with nuclear, biological and chemical protection measures of the population; l) non-announcement or non-information about dangerous events produced or on civil protection measures taken or necessary to be taken; m) the use for other purposes of technical means of civil protection with public destination; n) prohibition of access of personnel and technical means of emergency services for the purpose of carrying out specific legal duties; o) unconstituent reserves of technical-material resources necessary for civil protection, provided for in specific plans; p) failure to perform the support functions established during emergency situations; q) access of unauthorized persons during emergency situations in affected areas, prohibited access and which are delimited and marked accordingly. + Article 76 (1) Contraventions provided in art. 75 75 shall be sanctioned with a fine as follows: a) from 50 lei to 100 lei, the facts provided in lett. j) and l); b) from 100 lei to 500 lei, the facts provided in lett. f); c) from 500 lei to 1,000 lei, the facts provided in lett. g), m), n) and p); d) from 1,000 lei to 2,000 lei, the facts provided in lett. a), b), c), h), i) and o); e) from 2,000 lei to 5,000 lei, the facts provided in lett. d), e), k) and q). (2) The contravention sanctions shall apply to natural or legal persons, as appropriate. ((3) The offender may pay within 48 hours from the date of conclusion of the minutes or, as the case may be, from the date of its communication, half of the minimum fine provided for in this law, for each category of contraventions. + Article 77 The finding of contraventions and the application of sanctions shall be made by the personnel of professional emergency services with powers of guidance, control, intervention and finding of violations of the law in the field of civil protection, designated by the inspector general of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and nominated by chief inspectors, as well as by the persons designated by the heads of the public administration authorities with attributions in the field. + Article 78 The contraventions provided by this law are applicable to the provisions Government Ordinance no. 2/2001 on the legal regime of contraventions, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 180/2002 , with subsequent amendments and completions. + Chapter X Transitional and final provisions + Article 79 (1) The normative acts deriving from this law, provided to be elaborated and approved by Government decisions, shall be issued within 90 days of the entry into force of this Law. (2) The technical regulations provided to be approved by order of the ministers shall be issued within 180 days from the entry into force of this Law and shall be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I. + Article 80 National distinguishing mark for the identification of personnel and marking of technical means, shelters and other civil protection goods, uniform and identity card specific to specialized personnel with attributions in the field of protection Civil shall be established by Government decision *), taking into account the provisions of international regulations. __________ * *) See Government Decision no. 630/2005 for the establishment of the national distinctive sign identifying the personnel and marking the technical means, the shelters, other civil protection goods, the uniform and the specific identity card of the personnel specialised in the tasks the field of civil protection, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 597 597 of 11 July 2005. + Article 81 This law shall enter into force 60 days from the date of publication in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I. + Article 82 On the date of entry into force of this Law, the Civil Protection Law no. 106/1996 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 241 of 3 October 1996, as amended and supplemented, and Government Ordinance no. 47/1994 on the defence against disasters, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 242 242 of 29 August 1994, approved by Law no. 124/1995 , with subsequent amendments and completions. ----