Law No. LP178/2025 “On public sanitation service”.

This Law establishes the unitary legal and institutional framework regarding the establishment, organization, management, financing, monitoring and control of the operation of the public sanitation service for localities, including the administration and exploitation of the infrastructure related to this service. Sanitation system shall be intended set of technological installations, functional equipment and specific facilities, related to buildings and land through which the public sanitation service is carried out: separate waste collection points, composting stations, transfer stations, sorting stations, waste depots, mechanical-biological treatment stations, spaces for housing and maintaining vehicles specific to the public sanitation service. It includes deratization, disinfection, disinsection and domestic waste management. The public sanitation service for localities is established, organized and managed by local public administration authorities or by intercommunity development associations, for the purpose of sanitation of localities. The public sanitation service of localities is organized to meet the needs of the population, public institutions and of economic agents on the territory of the respective administrative-territorial units. The waste collection activity is carried out according to a collection system approved by the local public administration authority, in specially arranged spaces, which can be provided by the local public administration authority/operator, and in accordance with the provisions of the local waste management program. This Law establishes the competence of the Government, the Ministry of Environment and the local government in the field of public sanitation. The public sanitation service is organized and operates in accordance with the legislation and in compliance with the principles: (a) legality; (b) local autonomy; (c) decentralization of public services; (d) subsidiarity and proportionality; (e) intercommunity associations; (f) responsibilities towards citizens; (g) sustainable development and matching requirements with resources; (h) protection and conservation of the environment; (i) protection of public health; (j) fair pricing, correlated with the quality and quantity of the service provided; and (k) transparency and citizen consultation. Operators must have specialization in the field of public sanitation service activities, have technical and organizational competence, qualified personnel and be provided with adequate technical and material equipment for performing the types of contracted activities. The contract for the provision of the public sanitation service is the legal act that regulates the relations between the operator or the regional operator and the user regarding the provision and payment of the public sanitation service.