March 2025

The verification and control procedure carried out by the internal structures of the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC) has undergone a series of changes following the Order no. 1601/11.10.2024 issued by the President of the Authority, published in the Official Gazette no. 1252 bis in December 2024.

The normative act addresses both the internal reorganization of ANPC’s activity and specific changes regarding the implementation of control actions and the associated documentation.

From the perspective of the impact they may have on the activities of economic operators subjected to a control action, the most significant changes brought by the new regulation are:

• The restriction of the repetition of controls at the same economic operator for the same issue based on additional indications that appeared after the initial control.
• The method of conducting thematic controls, which can only be national and seasonal, with no possibility of carrying out multi-regional, regional, or county/sectoral controls, as a result of the abolition of the regional consumer protection commissioner offices. To note that the challenges generated by ANPC’s restructuring were thoroughly analyzed in an articles signed by the BACIU PARTNERS team available HERE.
• Changes regarding the control documents issued by ANPC inspectors: invitations addressed to economic operators, the method of completing the control sheet, the procedure for imposing complementary sanctions and measures.
• The explicit provision of the causes and the procedure for removing sanctions from the commercial record of economic operators.

Irina Văleanu and Denisa Drăgușin prepared a brief analysis that highlighted the impact of these changes in the activities of economic operators.

The article is available (in Romanian) for download HERE.