The private detective may exercise their profession, as the case may be, within specialized companies or individual detective offices, which operate based on a license issued by the Criminal Investigations Directorate within the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police. The activity object of the specialized companies and individual detective offices is unique (single object of activity – investigation activities – CAEN code 8001 for companies). The executive managers of specialized private detective companies must meet at least one of the following education requirements: → be graduates of the Faculty of Law; → be graduates of a faculty with a specialization other than law and a graduate of a specialization course for private detectives; → be graduates of a post-secondary school for detectives for those who do not have higher education; → have held the position of police officer or employee in a public institution with responsibilities in public order or national security with the rank of officer. The executive managers of specialized private detective companies must also meet the following specific conditions: → be medically fit; → not have been convicted for offenses committed with intent; → not carry out an activity involving the exercise of public authority; → have obtained the approval of the county police inspectorate or, as the case may be, of the General Police Directorate of the Municipality of Bucharest; The natural person associates or shareholders of specialized private detective companies must cumulatively meet the following conditions: → not have been convicted for offenses committed with intent; → not carry out an activity involving the exercise of public authority; Citizens from EU member states and the European Economic Area acquire the status of private detective in Romania by recognition by the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police of the qualification certificate for this profession, or a similar certificate issued in one of the EU member states or the European Economic Area, or by passing the attestation exam for the status of private detective according to art. 7 of Law 329/2003. To obtain the operating license, the managers of specialized companies or individual private detective offices must submit to the General Police Directorate of the Municipality of Bucharest (G.P.D.M.B.) or, as the case may be, to the county police inspectorates (C.P.I.) where they are established, the following documents: 1. application addressed to the Criminal Investigations Directorate within G.I.P.R., requesting the issuance of the operating license (standard form); 2. property or use document for the social/administrative headquarters and for the work points, in original; 3. for executive managers of the company – the original diploma of studies for graduates of a higher education institution and the certificate of completion of the specialization course for private detectives or the original diploma for graduates of law faculties or of a post-secondary school for private detectives, as applicable; 4. affidavit stating that no activity involving the exercise of public authority is carried out by the executive managers (standard form); 5. the original statute of the individual private detective office; 6. original medical certificates for the executive managers; 7. the list of material-technical means, transportation, communications, audio-video equipment, identification equipment, surveillance centers, and IT equipment to be used; 8. the rules of organization and operation;*