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Article 1
(1) Fire protection represents the integrated set of specific activities, organizational, technical, operational, humanitarian, and public information measures and tasks, planned, organized, and executed according to this law, for the purpose of preventing and reducing the risks of fire occurrence and ensuring operative intervention for limiting and extinguishing fires, with a view to evacuating, rescuing, and protecting endangered persons, protecting goods and the environment against the effects of emergency situations caused by fires.
(2) For the purposes of this law, terms and expressions regarding emergency situations, risk factors and types, operative intervention, and evacuation have the meaning provided in Government Emergency Ordinance no. 21/2004 regarding the National System for Emergency Situations Management, approved with amendments and completions by Law no. 15/2005, with subsequent amendments and completions, and the terms and expressions specific to fire protection have the following meanings:
a) fire safety authorization – the administrative act issued, pursuant to the law, by the county inspectorate for emergency situations or that of the municipality of Bucharest, certifying, after onsite verification and review of documents regarding fire protection measures, the fulfillment of the essential requirement – fire safety – for constructions, technological installations, and other arrangements; the fire safety authorization gives natural or legal persons, owners of constructions, installations, and other arrangements, the right to build, commission, and operate them in terms of the essential requirement – fire safety;
b) fire safety opinion – the act issued, pursuant to the law, by the county inspectorate for emergency situations or that of the municipality of Bucharest, after checking compliance with the provisions of current technical regulations of the fire protection measures adopted in the technical design documentation, for satisfying the essential requirement – fire safety – of constructions, installations, and other arrangements;
c) fire – self-sustaining combustion, which takes place uncontrollably in time and space, causing loss of human life and/or material damage and requiring an organized intervention to interrupt the combustion process;
d) cause of the fire – the sum of the factors contributing to the initiation of the fire, which generally consists of the ignition source, the means which produced the ignition, the first material that caught fire, as well as the determining circumstances that led to its outbreak;
e) technical means for fire protection – systems, installations, equipment, machinery, devices, accessories, materials, products, substances, and specialized vehicles intended for the prevention, limitation, and extinguishing of fires;
f) long-term operations – interventions for extinguishing fires and eliminating their negative effects that last more than 4 hours;
g) organization of intervention in case of fire – all the necessary technical and organizational measures for establishing the forces, responsibilities, tasks, means, methods, and procedures that can be used for evacuation and rescue of people and animals, protection of property and neighboring areas, as well as for extinguishing fires;
h) imminent fire danger – the situation created by the accumulation of factors which contribute to the initiation of a fire, its outbreak being possible at any moment;
i) territorial risk diagram – the document drafted by the county inspectorate for emergency situations or that of the municipality of Bucharest, which includes the specific types of risks as well as the estimated resources for their management;
j) risk analysis and coverage plan – the document listing the potential risks within an administrative-territorial unit, the measures, actions, and resources needed for managing those risks;
k) fire prevention – all actions to prevent ignition and spread of fires, to ensure the possibility of rescuing people and property, and to assure the safety of intervention teams;
l) intervention report – the operative information and statistical analysis document recording essential data observed at the intervention site regarding the extent and intensity of the fire, its probable cause, the effects produced, conduct of the intervention, participating forces, and operational times obtained;
m) fire extinguishing – all actions to limit and interrupt the combustion process using specific methods, procedures, and means;
n) user – the natural or legal person who uses an asset, in any capacity, in their own interest, in the interest of another, or in the public interest;
o) fire safety scenario – the document that qualitatively describes the evolution of a fire over time, identifying the key events that characterize and distinguish it from other possible fires within a building.
Article 2
Fire protection is an activity of public and national interest, with permanent character, in which the central and local public administration authorities, as well as all natural and legal persons located on the territory of Romania, are required to participate, under the conditions of this law.
Article 3
(1) Coordination, control, and provision of specialized technical assistance in the field of fire protection are ensured by the Ministry of Internal Affairs*), at the central level through the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, and at the local level through the county inspectorates for emergency situations and that of the municipality of Bucharest.*) The Ministry of Administration and Interior was reorganized by Government Emergency Ordinance no. 96/2012 regarding some reorganization measures within central public administration and for amending some normative acts, approved with amendments and completions by Law no. 71/2013, with subsequent amendments and completions, activities in the field of public administration being taken over by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration, while internal affairs are taken over by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to
Annex no. 2 to Government Decision no. 416/2007 on the organizational structure and personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with subsequent amendments, the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations is a unit "under the subordination/coordination/within the Ministry of Internal Affairs".
(2) The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, hereinafter referred to as the General Inspectorate, shall develop the national strategy for fire protection, which is presented to the Government for approval by the Minister of Internal Affairs*).
(3) The county inspectorates and that of the municipality of Bucharest, hereinafter referred to as inspectorates, exercise their specific powers in areas of competence established by government decision**).**) See also Government Decision no. 1,490/2004 for approving the Regulation on the organization and functioning and the organizational chart of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 884 of September 28, 2004, with subsequent amendments.
(4) The management of emergency situations caused by fires is ensured through components of the National System for Emergency Situations Management.
Article 4
(1) Local public administration authorities ensure the application of measures regarding fire protection activities, as included in the risk analysis and coverage plans, which are drawn up at the locality and county level.
(2) The risk analysis and coverage plans are updated annually.
(3) The methodology for developing and the framework structure of the risk analysis and coverage plan is approved by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs*) and published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I***).***) See also Order of the Minister of Administration and Interior no. 132/2007 for the approval of the Methodology for developing the Risk Analysis and Coverage Plan and of the Framework Structure of the Risk Analysis and Coverage Plan, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 79 of February 1, 2007.
(4) Prefects, the general mayor of the municipality of Bucharest and mayors shall, as appropriate, ensure the development of risk analysis and coverage plans at the level of the administrative-territorial units they represent.Article 5Natural and legal persons are responsible, according to the law, for establishing and applying fire protection measures, as well as for the consequences of fires.
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11 February 2022
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