art. 1 The license for free practice is the official document, issued by the Ministry of Health through the county public health department, respectively of the municipality of Bucharest, which must be obligatorily held by each person providing public services connected to medical acts: dental technique; biology, biochemistry, and chemistry; medical physics; physiotherapy; psychology; speech therapy; sociology; vocal therapy; optics-optometry; prosthetics-orthotics; hearing prosthetics; audiology; nutrition and dietetics. The license for free practice for public services connected to the medical act is endorsed annually. The documents necessary for issuing the license for free practice for public services connected to the medical act for each respective category are listed in the application form.

art.2 By exception from the provisions of art.1, legally established professional organizations, competent in issuing documents certifying professional training and the right to free practice for members of the organization, issue licenses for free practice for their own members who perform public services connected to the medical act included in the organization’s statutes and competences.

(Order 1992/2023 - for the approval of the Methodological Norms regarding the establishment, authorization, equipment, functioning, and registration of free practice offices for services connected to the medical act, as well as for establishing the documents necessary for issuing the licenses for free practice for personnel providing services connected to the medical act)