​Central

Central government is responsible for overall legislative, policy-making, management, monitoring, inspection and control competences in the field of:

• Strategic planning;
• Sustainable development;
• Environmental infrastructure and water management;
• Meteorology;
• Hydrology;
• Hydrogeology;
• Climate;
• Protected natural areas;
• Waste management;
• Management of hazardous substances;
• Biodiversity conservation; 
• Management of air quality;
• Biosecurity and ambient noise levels; and
• Administration of forest management.

The ministry is also in charge of the implementation and coordination of the financial assistance granted by the EU in the field of environment and forests and of programmes financed from EU funds.

National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) is the regulator in terms of environmental protection, according to art. 8 of GEO 195/2005 on environmental protection approved with amendments by Law 265/2006, as amended and supplemented.

Regional

County Environmental Protection Agencies are public institutions with legal personality, subordinated to the National Environmental Protection Agency, having the status of the decentralized public services, financed from the state budget.

County Environmental Protection Agency meets at the county level, the tasks of the National Agency for Environmental Protection, respectively: implementation of policies, strategies and legislation in the field of environmental protection at the county level, and also assessing the impact of certain public and private projects on the environment according with the Law no. 292/2018.

County environmental protection agencies issue regulatory documents on environmental protection, in accordance with the powers conferred by the National Agency for Environmental Protection, under the legislation in force.

Moreover, the County Council provides, according to its competences and according to the law, the framework for ensuring public services of county interest in the field of environment protection.

Local

The Municipalities, Towns and Communes are responsible for:

Own competencies (Article 21 of Framework Law n°195/2006 on decentralisation):

• Water supply; and
• Sewerage and treatment of wastewater and pluvial waters.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Environment

Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests

Sources

Constitution of Romania of 8 December 1991 amended, published in the Romanian Official Gazette Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 233 of 21 November 1991.

Decision No. 1635/2009 of the Romanian Government on the organisation and functioning of the Ministry of environment and forests.

GEO no. 75 of July 19, 2018 for the modification and completion of normative acts in the field of environmental protection

Framework Law no. 195/2006 on decentralisation, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 453 of 25 May 2006, revised.

Law N°215/2001 of Local Public Administration, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 204 of 23 April 2001, as subsequently amended; last modified February 2007.

Law no. 315/2004 on regional development in Romania, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 577 of 29 June 2004, revised.

Law no. 340/2004 on the institution of the prefect, consolidated version published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 225 of 24 March 2008 revised.

Law no. 292 of 3 December 2018 on the assessment of the impact of certain public and private projects on the environment, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 1043 of 10 December 2018State of the Environment Report, 2012

Decision No 43/2020 of the Romanian  Government on the organization and functioning of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests published in Monitorul Oficial al României, no 55, of 28 January 2020