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Article 1
(1) Fire protection represents the integrated set of specific activities, measures, and organizational, technical, operational, humanitarian, and public information tasks, planned, organized, and carried out according to this law, in order to prevent and reduce the risks of fire occurrence and to ensure operational intervention for limiting and extinguishing fires, with a view to the evacuation, rescue, and protection of endangered persons, protection of property and the environment against the effects of emergency situations caused by fires.
(2) For the purposes of this law, the terms and expressions relating to emergency situations, factors and types of risk, operational intervention, and evacuation have the meaning provided in Government Emergency Ordinance no. 21/2004 regarding the National Emergency Management System, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 15/2005, with subsequent amendments and additions, and the terms and expressions specific to fire protection have the following meanings:
a) fire safety authorization - the administrative act issued, under the law, by the county inspectorate for emergency situations or that of the Municipality of Bucharest, certifying, following on-site checks and documents regarding the implementation of fire protection measures, the fulfillment of the essential requirement - fire safety - for constructions, technological installations, and other arrangements; the fire safety authorization grants natural or legal persons, owners of constructions, installations, and other arrangements, the right to build, commission, and operate them from the point of view of fulfilling the essential requirement - fire safety;
b) fire safety opinion - the act issued, under the law, by the county inspectorate for emergency situations or that of the Municipality of Bucharest, after checking the conformity with the provisions of the technical regulations in force of the fire protection measures adopted in the technical design documentation, for the fulfillment of the essential requirement - fire safety - of constructions, installations, and other arrangements;
c) fire - self-sustaining combustion, which occurs uncontrolled in time and space, causing loss of human lives and/or material damages and requiring organized intervention to interrupt the combustion process;
d) cause of the fire - the sum of the factors that contribute to the initiation of the fire, generally consisting of the source of ignition, the means that caused 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 fire engines intended for the prevention, limitation, and extinguishing of fires;
f) long-term operations - interventions for extinguishing fires and eliminating their negative effects lasting more than 4 hours;
g) organization of intervention in case of fire - the set of technical-organizational measures necessary to establish the forces, responsibilities, tasks, means, methods, and procedures that can be used for the evacuation and rescue of people and animals, the protection of property and neighborhoods, as well as for extinguishing fires;
h) imminent fire hazard - the situation created by the accumulation of factors that lead to the initiation of the fire, its outbreak being possible at any moment;
i) territorial risk scheme - document drawn up by the county inspectorate for emergency situations or that of the Municipality of Bucharest, which includes the types of specific risks and the estimated resources for management;
j) risk analysis and coverage plan - the document that includes the potential risks in an administrative-territorial unit, the measures, actions, and resources necessary for the management of those risks;
k) fire prevention - all actions to prevent the initiation and spread of fires, to ensure conditions for rescuing people and goods, and to ensure the safety of intervention teams;
l) intervention report - the operative document for information and statistical analysis, which records the essential data found at the place of intervention regarding the extent and intensity of the fire, its probable cause, the effects produced, the development of the intervention, the participating forces, and the operative times achieved;
m) fire extinction - all actions of limiting and interrupting the combustion process using specific methods, procedures, and means;
n) user - the natural or legal person who uses a good, 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 differentiate it from other possible fires in a room.
Article 2
Fire protection is an activity of public, national interest, of a permanent nature, which central and local public administration authorities, as well as all natural and legal persons located on the territory of Romania, are obliged to participate in, under the conditions of this law.
Article 3
(1) The coordination, control, and provision of specialized technical assistance in the field of fire protection are ensured by the Ministry of Internal Affairs*), at central level through the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, and at local level through the county inspectorates for emergency situations and the one for the Municipality of Bucharest.*) The Ministry of Administration and Interior was reorganized by Government Emergency Ordinance no. 96/2012 regarding the establishment of reorganization measures within the central public administration and for the amendment of certain normative acts, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 71/2013, with subsequent amendments and additions, the activity in the field of public administration being taken over by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration, and the internal affairs field being taken over by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to
Annex no. 2 to Government Decision no. 416/2007 regarding the organizational structure and staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with subsequent amendments, the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations is a unit "under the subordination/co-ordination/within the Ministry of Internal Affairs".
(2) The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, hereinafter referred to as the General Inspectorate, develops the national strategy for fire protection, which is presented to the Government for approval by the Minister of Internal Affairs*).
(3) The county inspectorates for emergency situations and that of the Municipality of Bucharest, hereinafter referred to as inspectorates, exercise their specific duties within areas of competence established by Government decision**).**) See Government Decision no. 1,490/2004 for the approval of the Regulations of organization and operation and the organization 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) Management of emergency situations caused by fires is ensured through the components of the National Emergency Management System.
Article 4
(1) Local public administration authorities ensure the implementation of measures regarding fire protection activities 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 drafting and the framework structure of the risk analysis and coverage plan are approved by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs*) and published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I***).***) See Order of the Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs no. 132/2007 for the approval of the Methodology for drafting the Risk Analysis and Coverage Plan and 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) County prefects, the general mayor of the Municipality of Bucharest, and mayors ensure, as the case may be, the development of risk analysis and coverage plans at the level of the administrative-territorial units they represent.Article 5Natural and legal persons are liable, according to the law, for establishing and implementing fire protection measures, as well as for the consequences of fire occurrence.
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