Activities

Activities carried out in the responsibility area of the Border Police only with its approval

According to the provisions of the Government Emergency Ordinance No 105 of 27 of June 2001 regarding the state border of Romania, the following areas are considered border areas / areas subject to Border Police control:

• territory of 30 km from the state border and the Black Sea coast, to the interior;
• surface of the airport and port with its platforms, buildings and facilities - in the inland counties where there are ports and airports open to international traffic;
• land stripes of 10 km. on both sides of the banks of inland Danube, open to international navigation, including the whole Macin arm.

As a consequence, according to the same legal provisions, the activities which are to be carried out in the border areas / areas subject to Border Police control regime shall be approved by our institution or by the subordinated structures.
Thus:

• The General Inspectorate of Romanian Border Police - by the structure of coordination of the airport crossing points- approves the activities which are to be carried out in the crossing points set up in the airports open to international traffic (subordinated to G.I.B.P.):
  • Henri Coanda Airport, Bucuresti - Otopeni;
• Arad Airport;
• Bacau Airport;
• Baia Mare Airport;
• Cluj-Napoca Airport;
• Craiova Airport;
• Iasi Airport;
• Mihail Kogalniceanu Airport;
• Oradea Airport;
• Satu Mare Airport;
• Sibiu Airport;
• Suceava Airport;
• Targu-Mures Airport;
• Timisoara Airport;
• Tulcea Airport.
• Aurel Vlaicu Airport, Bucuresti - Baneasa;

• Content of the approval request file;
• Conditions for the applicant;
• Sanctions
• Border Police Territorial Inspectorates and Coast Guard approve:
  • mining;
  • oil, gas mineral and thermal waters exploitation;
  • forestry, ballast and quarry operations;
  • land improvment and irrigations, damming;
  • works and constructions along water streams;
  • works for improving navigations conditions;
  • constructions and improvement of the areas destined for tourist, pleasure and other type of activities;
  • geological research and prospecting;
• following activities that may be executed in the border zone, within 500 meters from the border line to the interior:
• foreign ship and boat navigation on the inland Danube, on Tulcea and Sulina arm.
• sports fishing (it is not necessary to submitt an approval file);
• industrial fishing carried out in the places and sectors of the border waters, inland waters and territorial sea, established by the responsible authorities.
• Border Police Sectors and Ships Groups approve:
• acces of persons in the state border protection stripes up to the border corridor or water banks, depending on the case, with the approval of the local public administration;
• acces of persons only through the places and in the conditions set up by the local public administration for activities beyond the state border protection stripe, when this stretches deeper in the territory, as well as in the isles and aits belonging to the Romanian state situated in the border waters;
• keeping the ships and boats registered according to the law, situated on the border and inland waters, in the places established by the port commanders or, depending on the case, by the authorities of the local public administration (approval file is not necessary);
• sports and pleasure activities in the waters destined for pleasure activities (approval file is not necessary);
• animal grazing during day time up to the protection stripe of the state border, at the external border, or up to the border corridor, at the internal border, and during night at 500 m distance from it to the interior, in the places established by the local public administration authorities (approval file is not necessary);
• Organized hunting of predator animals, on 500 m distance from the state border protection stripe, at the external border, or from the border corridor, at the internal border, to the interior, based on the decisions of the local councils (approval file is not necessary).
• Content of the approval file.

Content of the approval file

The approval file shall comprise:

• approval request form;
• company statute / copy, depending on the case;
• nominal table with the personnel which is to work within the premises of the border crossing points and their identification data;
• table with the vehicles which are to enter the premises of the border crossing points and their identification numbers;

Conditions for the applicant

Depending on the activity type, the approval applicant shall fulfill the following conditions:

• during work time, the employees shall wear a badge with their name, first name, the stamp and the signature of the employer, accompanied by a photograph;
• the access of the employees in the premises of the border crossing point is made on the basis of a service card stamped every trimester by the employer;
• any change of personnel should be notified to the Border Police by the holder of the approval, within 24 hours after its occurrence;
• the access of the employees, with personal cars or a property of the company where they work, beyond the border crossing documents control line, on the exit way out of the country is forbidden;
• to enclose the shop or, depending on the case, the location where the activity is to be carried out, with the appropriate means, in order to prevent the persons access through other places than those designated for this purpose;
• to assure the lightening of the shop or, depending on the case, the location of activity during night time, in the lateral, front and in the back side;
• the access of the employees at the activity location outside the working hours is forbidden;
• the employees shall present themselves in order to be controlled when coming and leaving the work place by the border policemen working in the access point.

The validity term of the approval is one year.

Sanctions

The heads of Border Police structures, which have issued the approvals, are required to organize and to carry out the control of the way in which the approved activities are performed.

If upon control it is ascertained the fact that the conditions established by the approval are not observed the physical and legal persons authorized are sanctioned.

When it is ascertained that the offence of non-compliance with the obligations provided for in the approval issued by the head of the territorial directorate of border police or by the chief of the coordination structure of the airport crossing points is repeatedly committed, the physical or legal persons for which the approval was issued, shall be subject to a fine and approval withdrawal.