RomaniaLegea nr. 50/2024 (Law on Measures for Applying the Digital Services Act), Coordinator, Notification, Orders and Fines
Law on Measures for Applying the Digital Services Act (Legea nr. 50 din 18 martie 2024, Monitorul Oficial nr. 232 din 19 martie 2024) Articles 5, 8, 14, 18, 28, 32 to 34, 44 and 53
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A transparency and process rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Reporting, Disclosure
As of .
What it requires
- If you are a provider of intermediary services from Romania and not a public authority, send ANCOM, within 45 days of starting to offer services, a notice with your identification data and your single points of contact for authorities (Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065) and for recipients (Article 12), in the form ANCOM sets, and report any change within 10 days.
- When you receive an order to act against illegal content or to provide information, tell the issuing authority, no later than 10 days after receipt, whether and when you acted, and tell the affected recipient (Articles 9 and 10 of the Regulation).
- Designate and publish your single points of contact for authorities and recipients, and, if you are not established in the European Union, appoint, empower and notify a legal representative (Articles 11 to 13 of the Regulation).
- Put the restrictions you impose on users in your terms and conditions, notify users of significant changes, and publish at least one content moderation report each year (Articles 14 and 15 of the Regulation).
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
Article 34(1)(a) fines most contraventions of the Regulation from RON 5,000 up to a maximum of 6 percent of worldwide annual turnover in the previous financial year, and Article 34(1)(b) sets a maximum of 1 percent for information and inspection failures. Article 34(2) sets RON 5,000 to RON 100,000 for a provider in the year it began activity. Article 33 fines failure to send the Article 5 notice RON 5,000 to RON 30,000. Article 44 allows daily administrative fines of up to 5 percent of average daily worldwide turnover or income.
- Rule
- Turnover pct only
- As of
- Minimum
- 5,000
- Currency
- RON
- Turnover percentage cap
- 6
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), the digital services coordinator, whose control staff find contraventions and whose president applies the sanctions.
What this law does
Article 14(1) of Law 50/2024 designates the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (Autoritatea Națională pentru Administrare și Reglementare în Comunicații, ANCOM) as the digital services coordinator under Article 49(2) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065. Article 18(1) makes ANCOM competent to supervise and ensure compliance with the Regulation by providers of intermediary services from Romania.
Article 5(1) requires a provider of intermediary services from Romania, other than a public authority, to send ANCOM within 45 days of starting to offer services a notice that includes its identification data and its single point of contact under Articles 11 and 12 of the Regulation. Article 5(3) requires the provider to notify ANCOM of any change in those details within 10 days.
Article 8(1) and (2) require an order to act against illegal content to meet at least the conditions in Article 9(2) of the Regulation and to be sent electronically to the contact point the provider designated under Article 11. Article 28(1) allows ANCOM to inspect premises only in exceptional cases, on its own decision and a judicial authorization given by the President of the Bucharest Court of Appeal or a delegated judge.
Article 32(1) points 5 and 6 make it a contravention for a provider not to designate single points of contact for authorities and for recipients, or not to publish the information needed to identify and reach them, as Articles 11 and 12 of the Regulation require.
Article 32(1) points 1 to 4 make it a contravention for a provider not to tell the issuing authority, no later than 10 days after receipt, how it acted on an order under Article 9(1) or 10(1) of the Regulation, or not to tell the affected recipient. Article 33(2) and (3) make it a contravention, fined RON 5,000 to RON 30,000, for a provider from Romania not to send ANCOM the notice required by Article 5(1) in the time and format ANCOM sets.
Article 34(1)(a) fines the contraventions in points 1 to 53 of Article 32(1) from RON 5,000 up to a maximum of 6 percent of the provider's worldwide annual turnover in the previous financial year. Article 34(1)(b) fines the contravention in point 54, supplying incorrect information or obstructing an inspection, from RON 5,000 up to a maximum of 1 percent of the annual income or worldwide annual turnover.
Article 44(1) lets ANCOM impose administrative fines of up to 5 percent of average daily worldwide turnover or income for each day, without combining them with another sanction for the same act. Article 53(1) brought Articles 32, 33 and 52 into force 30 days after the Law's publication in the Monitorul Oficial.
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