Tourism Law in Romania Ilie Dumitru1 1. Evolution of the Romanian legislation on tourism in last decades; 2. Actual legal provisions on accommodation units’ activity; 2.1. Accommodation units’ categories; 2.2. Issuance of the classification certificate; 2.3. Modification of the classification certificate; 2.4. Withdrawal of the classification certificate; 2.5. Validity of the classification certificate; 2.6. Obligations of the classified hotel unit; 2.7 Criteria for establishing the classification of accommodation units; 3. A new law on tourism. 1. EVOLUTION OF THE ROMANIAN LEGISLATION ON TOURISM IN LAST DECADES Romania is one of the European countries more and more looked as holiday destinations. Any person who will analyse Romania’s geographical map will discover this country as a place that has it all: virgin forest, mountains with climbing routes and ski slopes, sea coast with many resorts, the Danube Delta, Transylvania region with Dracula Castle, Bucharest as the capital with the biggest building in Europe and the second largest administrative building in the world, wine cellars and vineyards in the sub-Carpathian hills, old towns and medieval citadels still inhabited and so on. During the process of its admission in the European Union (started in 1995 and completed in 2007), Romania modified many of the national laws in order to made it compatible with the provisions of the European legal frame. Such evolution includes the tourism legislation. The adoption of legislation in the field of tourism was only a component of the great effort of the Romanian state generated by the change of the governing system following the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Since 1990, Romania, like all other states in the former “communist bloc”, has gone through a complicated process of changing its entire legislative system and harmonising it with the 1 Ilie Dumitru, Phd.; Lawyer, Associate Professor; Bucharest, Romania; ilie.dumitru@gmail.com.
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