Romania. Comprehensive data protection. Act
Law 677/2001Law No. 677/2001 on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data and the Free Movement of such Data
Repealed/superseded
§1Summary
- Synopsis
Romania's general data protection law, which transposed Directive 95/46/EC. It remained the basis for supervision by the national authority until the GDPR applied. Law 129/2018 repealed it with effect from 25 May 2018, and Law 190/2018 supplies the national GDPR measures.
- Key themes
- SaaS relevance
Historical only; replaced by the GDPR and Law 190/2018 (ro-law-190-2018).
§2Dates
- Key dates
- Adopted
- In force
- Ended
- Adopted 2001-11-21; published in Monitorul Oficial no. 790 of 2001-12-12 (in force on publication, applicable within three months); repealed 2018-05-25 by Art. V(1) of Law 129/2018 (Monitorul Oficial no. 503 of 2018-06-19)
§3Text and authority
- Text
- Authoritative text legislatie.just.ro
- Authority
- Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)
§4Where it applies
- Domestic law of
- Romania
§5Sources and verification
- Sources consulted
- Verification
High confidence.
Dates are from search summaries of the Portal Legislativ record and the ANSPDCP site; the portal page itself could not be fetched. Law 190/2018 (the existing row) did not itself repeal Law 677/2001. The supervisory authority was created later, under Law 102/2005 (in force 2005-05-12).