罗马尼亚的商业许可改革

Business Licensing Reforms This work is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed andarguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Member countries of the OECD. This document was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in This document, as well as any data and map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty overany territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use ofsuch data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in Please cite this publication as: Photo credits:Cover © shisu_ka/Shutterstock.com. Corrigenda to OECD publications may be found at: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/support/corrigenda.html.© OECD 2026 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. By using this work, you accept to be bound by the terms of this licence(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Attribution– you must cite the work.Translations– you must cite the original work, identify changes to the original and add the following text:In the event of any discrepancy between the original work and thetranslation, only the text of the original work should be considered valid. Foreword Romania has been catching up with OECD economies and almost halving the gap in GDP per capita overthe last two decades, driven by strong productivity growth.However, since theglobal financial crisis,Romania has suffered of weak business dynamism and investment and the pace of economic growth isslowing down. Most of Romania labour productivity growth is driven by capital accumulation, boosted byEU-funded projects, rather than technological progress.While large multinational enterprises have To support this effort, the OECD, in collaboration with the Reform and Investment Task Force (SGREFORM) of the European Commission, is supporting the Romanian government to improve the business This report outlines the key features of the business licensing system, its main barriers and ways to simplifyit, with a special focus on the commerce and service sectors. It builds on an in-depth analysis of theupdated Business Licensing Inventory, which collected information on 502 licences for business activities The recommendations presented in this report contribute to addressing the 2019 European Commissioncountry-specific recommendation to improve the quality and predictability of decision making andcomplement the policy recommendations aimed at improving thebusiness licensing system presented inthe 2024 OECD Economic Survey of Romania. They indirectly support the achievement of Target 244 ofthe National Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) by contributing to generally reducing the average time The report is structured as follows. Chapter 1 presents the economic context, and the challenges relatedto the business environment as well as recent reforms to support business entry and operations. Chapter2 provides an in-depth assessment of the licencing procedures and present the methodology to identify Acknowledgments This report is the result of the work of a team in the OECD Economics Department (ECO). The report wasprepared by Fátima Talidi, with inputs from Filippo Cavassini, David Hedderich and Giuliana Sarcina(former ECO).The contributions of Mihai Cuc, legal expert, are gratefully acknowledged.Isabell Koske,Deputy Director, Country Studies, provided guidance and inputs to the work. Mathieu Miranda provided The work was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument and implemented bythe OECD in co-operation with the European Commission’s Reform and Investment Task Force (SGREFORM). Special thanks to Laura Morano (former SG REFORM) for her support during the project, and The work built on the strong collaboration with the Romanian Competition Council (RCC). Special thanksgo to Bogdan Chirițoiu, President, Elena Kleininger, Project manager, and the RCC team involved in theproject, for their support and inputs throughout the implementation of the project and the preparation of The OECD Secretariat would like to thank the officials of the 65 Romanian public institutions, andrepresentatives of the private sector who shared information and insights in the course of a series of The OECD Secretariat extends its thanks to the Dutch, French, Italian and Portuguese experts, whoparticipated in a workshop on business licensing reforms, which helped inform the report. An earlier versionof the report was discussed in a seminar organised with the delegates of the OECD Economic andDevelopment Review Committee (EDRC). Special thank