Law on the establishment of single market measures for digital services has been adopted.
Law applies to intermediary services offered to recipients established or located in the European Union, provided by an intermediary service provider whose main place of establishment is in Romania or which is resident in Romania or whose legal representative is established in Romania.
Any provider of intermediary services in Romania, with the exception of public authorities or institutions, is obliged to send to the National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications (“ANCOM”), within 45 days from the date of starting to offer the services, an information containing the identification data of the provider, respectively the single point of contact in order to communicate efficiently with the public authorities or institutions and implicitly with the recipients of the services.
ANCOM may impose administrative fines, without cumulating with any other sanctions applied, in a maximum daily amount of 5% of the average daily turnover worldwide or of the average daily revenue worldwide recorded in the previous financial year by the intermediary service provider in question, calculated from the date specified in the sanction decision until the date of fulfilment of the obligation.
ANCOM may establish annually for intermediary service providers whose main place of establishment is on the territory of Romania the obligation to pay a supervision fee, which will be applicable from 1 January 2027.
