​Central

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has the following competences:

• Legislation.
• Monitoring frameworks.
• Organisation and development of activities for preventing and countering illegal migration through specialised structures;
• Ensuring the compliance of Romania's state border regime; and
• Implementation of Romanian policies in the field of refugees.
• Reception and processing of asylum seekers, including issuance of monetary subsistence benefit and ensuring healthcare and schooling.
• Issuing study visas.
• Implementation of the Visa Code.
• Integrated System for Border Security.
• Effective communication and cooperation with the European Asylum Support Office (EASO).

Regional

There are six regional centres for Accomodation and Asylum Seekers as follows: Bucharest, Timişoara (Timiş County), Somcuţa Mare (Maramureş County), Rădăuţi (Suceava County), Galaţi (Galaţi County) and Giurgiu (Giurgiu County) with a total capacity of approximately 1,000 persons.

Authorities are responsible for ensuring to asylum seekers primary medical care, emergency hospital care and free treatment in the case of acute or chronic diseases. The asylum seekers have the right to be included in national public health programs aimed at the prevention, surveillance and control of transmissible diseases, in epidemiological situations;

Authorities must ensure access to primary education for minors and access to cultural integration activities.

Local

Local government units are responsible for:

• Initial reception of migrants before being deferred to regional centres.
• On voluntary basis devise and implement cultural integration activities in partnership with local NGOs.
• Ensure that migrant minors have access to primary education (depending on their areas of responsibility).

Responsible ministries/bodies

General Inspectorate for Immigration

Ministry of Internal Affairs

Sources

“Access to Employment for Beneficiaries of International Protection in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Slovakia", UNHCR, 2013

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.

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. 122/2006 on asylum in Romania, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 428 of 18 May 2006, revised.