The European Professional Card is an electronic certificate that attests either that the professional has met all the necessary conditions to temporarily and occasionally provide services in a host Member State, or recognition of professional qualifications for establishment in a host Member State.
The holder of mountain guide qualifications may choose to request such a card either to apply the procedure for temporarily and occasionally performing the profession of tourism guide in Romania or the procedure for recognition of professional qualifications based on Law no. 200/2004 regarding the recognition of professional qualifications, with subsequent amendments and completions, as applicable.
To facilitate the free movement of mountain guides within the EU, the European Commission, based on Regulation 983/2015 regarding the procedure for issuing the European Professional Card and the application of the alert mechanism under Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and Council, has provided for the introduction of the European Professional Card (EPC) for mountain guides. The EPC is valid indefinitely if you settle long-term, or 12 months if you provide services temporarily.
To obtain the EPC, interested persons will access the Your Europe portal (“Europa Ta”), where all documents requested by the competent authority from each Member State are published, and will create an account on the ECAS platform. For details regarding how to create a user account for submitting an EPC file, please access the following link: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/professional-qualifications/european-professional-card/index_ro.htm. Before submitting your request, check that you have complied with the requirements published in the Simulator on the EPC page, on the Your Europe website. For details on how to upload documents to the platform, please access the link: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/_docs/library/epc_user_guide_professionals_ro.pdf

• Each requested document (copies of originals, copies of certified translations, etc.) must be uploaded as a single PDF file containing all pages of the document;
• For each uploaded document, the applicant must complete the identification data and address of each issuing authority;
• All submitted documents will be validated as authentic and valid through the Internal Market Information System (IMI) by the competent authority from the Member State of origin (according to EPC Regulation 2015/983).

The central public authority in tourism (Tourism Department within the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Business Environment) is the competent authority for issuing EPCs for mountain guides for the purpose of establishment in Romania to practice this profession.

List of regulated professions in Romania: The profession of mountain guide is included in the category of specialized tourism guides for certain segments of tourism services; the profession of tourism guide is regulated in Romania and is included in the List of regulated professions - Annex no. 2 to Law no. 200/2004 regarding the recognition of professional qualifications, with subsequent amendments and completions.

FEES: No fees are charged for issuing the EPC.

The registers/databases regarding mountain guides for whom the European Professional Card was issued – at the moment the database contains no records.