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Romania – National Regulatory
Authority for Municipal Services
Water sector - institutions
Central Authorities:
 Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration
 Ministry of Finance
 Ministry of European Funds
 Ministry of Environment and Climate Change
Role: the development and approval of sector development strategies at national level
Regulator:
 National Regulatory Authority for Municipal Services (ANRSC)
Role: regulator, monitor and control services of public utilities (including water
service and sewage)
Other partners:
 Local Authorities (Intercommunitary Development Association – IDA)
 Professional Associations (Romanian Water Association)
 Operators of water supply and sewerage: provide service level constantly increasing
expansion and modernization;
 Unions.
ANRSC Presentation
ANRSC is a public institution of national interest, operating under the
guidance of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration
 ANRSC main competences are:
- issuing projects for normative acts in the area of public municipal services;
- licensing of operators of public municipal services;
- issuing of the methodologies for settlement, adjusting and modifying prices
and tariffs for municipal services;
- adjusting and modifying prices and tariffs for municipal services, taking in
consideration the inflation rate, the currency exchange rate, the modification
of production and distribution cost structures, as well as following the
reorganization of the operators activity;
- supervising the manner in which bids for delegating services administration are
held;
- monitoring and control the specific laws implementation at the operators and
the local authorities
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ANRSC Presentation
A.N.R.S.C. is the qualified settlement authority for the following services of
public utilities:
a) water supply;
b) sewerage and purification of used waters;
c) collection, sewerage and evaluation of pluvial waters;
d) production, transportation, distribution and thermal
energy supply, except of the production of thermal energy in
cogeneration;
e) sanitation of towns;
f) public illumination;
g) the administration of the public and private domain of the
administrative - territorial units.
h) the local public transportation, in conformance with the
abilities given by the special law.
ANRSC Presentation
A.N.R.S.C. is managed by a president with the title of secretary of state, helped
by a vice-president as a sub-secretary of state, named and revoked by the Prime
Minister at the recommendation of the Minister of Regional Development and
Public Administration
ANRSC has a central structure and seven regional agencies
ANRSC monitoring and controls 2558 operators that assure 2918 public utilities
services:
- 1077 water supply and sewerage
- 98 production, transportation, distribution and thermal
energy supply
- 666 sanitation of towns
- 578 public ilumination
- 499 local public transportation
Water sector characteristics
Characteristics of the water and wastewater sector:
42 regional operators
2 large municipal utilities (private capital involvement)
200 local utilities, holding 10% of population covered with water services
Level of coverage with water supply services at country level :
- 56.5% in 2011
- 60% in 2012
- aprox. 64% in 2013
 Degree of metering in 2013 - 90%
- at regional operators 93%
Relationship Chart of the Regional Operators
Unit? ?ile Administrativ
Local authorities
Teritoriale
Constitutive Act
Operatorul
Regional Utility
Regional
(ROC)
Contractul
Delegation
Contract
de
Delegare
Service supply
Utilizatorii
Final
user
Mandat
Mandate
Asocia ?ia de
Dezvoltare
Intercomunitar?
(ADI)
(IDA)
Performance monitoring
Operators Governance

The number and size of the aggregation service providers (municipal,
regional, etc.).
- 42 regional operators plus SC Apa Nova Bucureşti SA and SC
Apanova SRL Ploiesti hold ~ 90% of the service market. The
regionalization process continue operating regional operators
taking over in smaller towns
~ 200 operators at local authorities from towns
 Organizing legal service providers (public, private, state-owned
companies or private companies in public administration, etc.).
- 42 regional operators - organized as companies owned by local /
county
Two major private operators (SC Apa Nova Bucureşti SA and SC
Apanova SRL Ploiesti) plus a few very small operators
~ 200 operators in small towns organized as companies or public
services in local authorities
Services

Integrated services for water and wastewater / sewage - where no
specific infrastructure
Specific relevant policies

General Law No 51/2006 and the Special Law 241/2006 have been harmonized
with European legislation.

Law 204/2012 established the legal framework for regionalization of service
delivery, adoption of simple and standardized procedures for carrying out
regional operators, both institutionally and of how the delegation of the service
and to implement the new concept the powers and duties of IDAs.
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The directives on drinking water quality, wastewater quality were transposed
into law in Romania
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ANRSC has elaborated and approved tertiary
regulations:
Licensing Regulation
Regulation of organization and functioning of the service framework,
The framework contract between the operator and the final consumer,
The Framework for delegation procedure
The procedure of establishment, adjustment and modification of prices and
tariffs, under which each local authority approves their own rules
Framework for tehnical specification
ANRSC :
Contact data :
www.anrsc.ro
Bucharest, Romania