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Matched Legal Cases: ['Art.1', 'Art.2', 'Art.3', 'Art 4', 'Art.5', 'Art.6', 'Art.7', 'Art. 11', 'Art.15', 'Art.16', 'Art.17', 'art.22', 'Art.18', 'Art.19', 'Art.20', 'art.18', 'Art.21', 'art.5', 'art.8', 'art.8', 'art.8', 'art.8', 'Art.22', 'Art.23', 'art.22', 'Art.24', 'Art.25', 'Art.26', 'art.1', 'Art.27', 'art.1', 'art.1', 'Art.28', 'art.1', 'Art.29', 'Art. 30', 'Art.31', 'art. 5', 'Art.32', 'Art.33', 'art.74', 'art.74']

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Unofficial Translation� �
� The Parliament of Romania adopts the present law.
� CHAPTER I: General provisions
� Art.1:Definitions
� For the purpose of this law, the following terms are defined as follows:
information society service � any activity of providing services or that involve the creation, modification, transfer or termination of a real right on a fixed or non-fixed asset, activity carried out by electronic means, that shows the following characteristics:a) it is performed considering a patrimony interest provided to the supplier usually by the recipient;
electronic means � electronic equipment and cable networks, optic fibre, radio, satellite and others, used to process, store or retransmit information;service provider � any natural or legal person providing to a determined or undetermined number of people, an information society service;service provider established in a state � a service provider with stable headquarters on the territory of a state, for an undetermined period of time; the settling of a service provider in a state is not necessarily determined by the location where the technical and technological means necessary to provide the service are placed;domain � an area of an information system owned as such by a natural or legal person or by a group of natural or legal persons in view of data processing, storing or transfer;recipient of the service or recipient � any natural or legal person using, for commercial, professional or any other purposes, an information society service, primarily in order to find information or providing access to it;consumer � any natural person acting for purposes outside his or her commercial or professional activity;commercial communication � any form of communication meant to promote, directly or indirectly, the goods, services, image, name or denomination, company ort logo of a trader or a member of a liberal profession. The following do not themselves constitute commercial communications: information allowing direct access to the activity of a natural or legal person, especially a domain name or an electronic mail address, communications related to the products, services, image, name or brand of a natural or legal person made by a third party, independent of the respective person, especially when they are made free of charge;coordinated legislation � provisions in force of the national laws applicable to the activities making the object of the information society or service providers, regarding:a) the requirements the service providers have to meet in order to take up these activities, as those concerning necessary qualifications, authorizations or notifications;
electronic payment instrument � an instrument allowing the owner to carry out the following types of operations:a) fund transfers others than the ones ordered and performed by financial institutions;
remote access payment instrument � electronic payment instrument by means of which its owner can access the funds from an account within a financial institution and to authorise payments by using his (her) personal identification code or similar identification means;electronic payment instrument � rechargeable electronic payment instrument other than the remote access payment instrument on which the value units are stored electronically and allow the owner to carry out the types of operations mentioned at item 10;owner � person owning an electronic payment instrument on the basis of a contract signed with an issuer, under the conditions of the law;identification data � any information allowing or facilitating the types of operations mentioned at item 10, as well as an identification code, name and denomination, residence or headquarters, telephone, fax numbers, electronic mail address, registration number or similar identification means, fiscal code, personal numerical code and other similar.� Art.2: Scope and application field
� (1) The present law has as purpose to establish the conditions of supplying information society services as well as to establish as infringements certain deeds regarding the safety of the domains used for electronic commerce, the issuing and use of electronic payment instruments as well as the use of identification data to carry out financial operations, in order to provide a favourable framework for the free movement of these services and the development of safety conditions for them.
� Art.3: Application of the Romanian law in case of information society services
� (1) The present law is applied to the service providers established in Romania and to the services offered by them.
g) the formal requirements provided for the validation of the legal acts by means of which real rights on real estates located in Romania�s territory are created, modified, terminated or transmitted;h) requirements applicable to goods as such and their supply;
(a) the measure is necessary for public order reasons, legal instruction, minors� protection, fight against any for of stirring to hatred out of race, religion or nationality, prejudices to human dignity, public health protection, national protection and safety, consumers� protection, including investors;(b) the measure has in view a service of the information society that brings any prejudices to one of the values mentioned at item a) or shows a serious risk to these values;
� CHAPTER II: Providing information society services Art 4: Principles of providing information society services
� Art.5: General information
(1) The service provider is bound to put at the recipients� and public authorities� disposal the means to allow easy, direct and permanent access to at least the following information:a) the name and denomination of the service provider;
f) the identification data of the competent authority in case the service provider�s activity is subject to authorisation;g) the professional title and the state where it has been granted, the professional body or any similar body to which the service provider belongs, the indication of the regulations applicable to the respective profession in the state where the service provider is established as well as the means to access to them in case the service provider is member of a liberal profession;
j) any other information the service provider is bound to put at the recipients� disposal in agreement with the legal provisions in force.(2) The obligation provided by paragraph (1) is considered fulfilled in case the provider of a service displays this information clearly, visibly and permanently on the web-site by means of which the respective service is offered, under the conditions mentioned at paragraph (1).
� Art.6: Commercial communications
� CHAPTER III: Contracts concluded by electronic means Art.7: The validity, legal effects and evidence of contracts concluded by electronic means
(1) The service provider is bound to put to the recipient�s disposal, before the recipients sends the offer to contract or acceptance of the firm offer made by the service provider, as least the following information that has to clearly, unambiguously and accessibly expressed:b) the technical steps to be followed in order to conclude the contract;
d) the technical means that the service provider puts at the recipient�s disposal to identify and correct the errors occurred on the occasion of data input;e) the language of the contract;
(2) The contract which, by its nature or at the beneficiary�s request, imposes an immediate execution of the characteristic service, is considered as concluded the moment when debitor ?? started the execution, unless the offering party has asked that the acceptance is communicated to him (her) beforehand. In this case the provisions of paragraph (1) are applied.(3) In case the recipient sends by electronic means the offer to contract or accept the firm offer or, according the case, its acceptance of the firm offer to contract made by the service provider, the service provider has the obligation to confirm having received the offer, or, as appropriate, its acceptance, in one of the following ways:
CHAPTER IV: Service provide liability Art. 11: General principles
Art.15: Information searching tools and other links with other web sites (1) The information society service provider facilitating the access to the information supplied by other service providers or by the recipients of the services offered by other suppliers, by making available for the recipients of his service some information searching tools or links to other web sites, is not liable for the respective information, in any of the following conditions is fulfilled:
� CHAPTER V: Monitoring and Control
� Art.16: The service provider obligations
� (1) The service providers are bound to notify the competent public authorities right away, about activities that seem illegal carried out by the recipients of their services or about information supplied by these ones that seem illegal.
� Art.17: Competent authorities
� (1) The regulating authority for communications and information technology, called further on the Authority is competent to monitor and control the compliance of the service providers to the provisions of the present law and of its methodological norms, to ascertain the contraventions and to apply the sanctions provided for at art.22.
� Art.18: Codes of Conduct
� (1) The associations and non-governmental organisations with professional or trade character or those created for the protection of customers, minors or disabled persons, can elaborate codes of conduct in collaboration with the Authority and the Ministry of Justice, for a proper application of the provisions of the present law.
� CHAPTER VI: Dispute settlement
� Art.19 Court actions
� (1) The entities qualified to bring an action, according to the provisions of paragraph (2), can require to the court the obligation for the defendant to stop any infringement, according to the provisions of the present law, the interdiction for the defendant to resume the action in the future and the obligation of the defendant to pay damages for the impairment caused.
� Art.20: Out-of-court dispute settlement
� (1) The service providers and the recipients can submit the disputes between them to arbitration, under the conditions provided by the law, as well as other out-of-court means to settle disputes, provided by the conduct codes elaborated according to art.18.
� CHAPTER VII: Sanctions � Art.21: Relative nullity of contracts regarding information society services
� Any contract regarding the provision of information society services can be annulled at the recipient�s request if it has been concluded with a service supplier that:a) has not put at the recipient�s disposal, under the conditions provided by the law, the information mentioned at art.5, letter a)-i) or has not supplied all this information or has supplied inaccurate information;b) has not put at the recipient�s disposal, under the conditions provided by the law, the information mentioned at art.8, paragraph (1) letter a)-e) or has not supplied all this information or has supplied inaccurate information, if the provisions of art.8 paragraph (3) or (5) are not applicable;c) has infringed the obligation provided by art.8 paragraph (2), if the if the provisions of art.8 paragraph (3) or (5) are not applicable;
� Art.22: Contraventions
� Considered as contravention, if not under the conditions that, according to the criminal law, it represents a crime, and sanctioned by a fine ranging from 10 million to 500 million lei the fact of a service supplier that:
� Art.23: Establishing contraventions and applying sanctions
� (1) Establish a contravention according to art.22 letter a) and applying the respective sanctions are done at the request of any person or office, by the empowered representatives of ANRC or of the monitoring authority provided by Law no.677/2001 on the protection of people regarding the processing of personal data and their free circulation.
� CHAPTER VIII: Infringements related to the issuing and use of electronic payment means and the use of identity data for financial operations � Art.24: Forgery of electronic payment instruments
� (1) The forgery of electronic payment instruments is punished with imprisonment form 3 to 12 years and the banning of rights.
� Art.25: Owning equipment to forge electronic payment instruments � The manufacturing or the owning of equipment, including hardware and software, to be used to forge electronic payment instruments is punished by imprisonment from 6 months to 5 years.
� Art.26: The forgery in declarations in view of issuing or using electronic payment instruments
� The inaccurate declaration, made by a bank, credit or financial institution or any other legal person authorised, under the conditions of the law, to issue electronic payment instruments or to accept the types of operations mentioned by art.1, item 10, in order to issue or use an electronic payment instrument, for himself (herself0 or another, when, according to the law or the circumstances, the declaration serves to issue or use the respective instrument, is punished with imprisonment from 3 months to 2 years or with a fine.
� Art.27: Performing financial operations fraudulently � (1) The carrying out of one of the operations mentioned in art.1, item 10, by using an electronic payment instrument, including the identification data that allow its use, without the consent of the owner of the respective instrument, is punished with imprisonment with 1 to 12 years.
(4) The punishment is imprisonment from 3 to 15 years and the prohibition of the rights if the facts mentioned in paragraphs (1) � (3) are carried out by a person who, by the nature of his (her) job:a) performs technical operations necessary to issue electronic payments instruments or to perform the types of operations mentioned on art.1 item 10; or
� Art.28: Accepting financial operations performed fraudulently � (1) Accepting any of the operations mentioned in art.1, item 10, knowing that it is performed by using a forged electronic payment instrument or using an electronic payment instrument without the consent of the owner, is punished with imprisonment from 1 to 12 years.
� Art.29: Carrying out unauthorised operations in an information system � (1) The authorised access to an information system or a domain is punished by imprisonment from 3 months to 3 years or by fine.
� Art. 30: Determination and judging of crimes � (1) The crimes mentioned by the present law are determined by the competent public authorities that submit the determination document to the local criminal investigating body.
� CHAPTER IX: Final provisions � Art.31: Burden of proof in case of disputes on information society service provision
� In case of any dispute on the supply of an information society service, occurred between the provider of the respective service and its recipient, the burden to prove the fulfilment of the obligations mentioned by art. 5, 6, 8 and 9 comes to the service provider if the recipient has the consumer quality.
� Art.32: The abrogation of contrary provisions � Letter f) of article 6 of OG no.130/2000 on the legal regime of remote contracts is abrogated.
� Art.33: Entering into force and application of the law � (1) Within 3 months from the date the law is published in the Official Monitor of Romania, Part I, the Ministry of Communications and Information technology will elaborate the methodological norms for its application, that are approved by a Government Decision.
� This law was adopted by the Senate, during the meeting on 9th of may 2002, by observing the provisions of art.74, paragraph (1) of the Constitution of Romania.
� � PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
� This law was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies during the meeting on 9th of May 2002, by observing the provisions of art.74, paragraph (1) of the Constitution of Romania
� President of the Deputies Chamber
Veler Dorneanu
� Published in the Official Monitor with number 483 dated 5 July 2002