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Repealed/superseded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 Law 129/2018 repealed it with effect from 25 May 2018, and Law 190/2018 supplies the national GDPR measures.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
  • Directive 95/46/EC transposition
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published in Monitorul Oficial no. 790 of 2001-12-12 (in force on publication, applicable within three months); repealed 2018-05-25 by Art.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
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).