Law No. 101 “On sanitation in inhabited areas”.

The purpose of this Law is to establish the unitary legal framework regarding the establishment, organization, management, exploitation, financing and control of the operation of the public sanitation service of localities. The provisions of this Law apply to the public sanitation service of localities, established and organized by local public administration authorities at the level of communes, cities, municipalities, counties and sectors of the municipality of Bucharest. The sanitation service includes the following activities: (a) separate collection and separate transportation of domestic waste of household and similar waste from commercial activities in industry and institutions, including separately collected fractions; (b) operation of collection centers through voluntary contribution of waste from natural persons; (c) transfer of municipal waste to transfer stations, including separate transport of waste residual at non-hazardous waste depots and/or at integrated treatment facilities, of paper, metal, plastic and glass waste collected separately at sorting stations and of bio-waste at composting and/or anaerobic digestion facilities; (d) waste sorting paper, cardboard, metal, plastic and glass collected separately from municipal waste in sorting stations, including the transport of residues resulting from sorting to landfills and/or energy recovery facilities; (e) aerobic treatment of biowaste collected separately in composting facilities , including the transport of residues to landfills and/or to energy recovery facilities; (f) anaerobic treatment of biowaste collected separately in anaerobic digestion facilities, including the transport of sanitized and stabilized semi-solid material to landfills and/or to energy recovery facilities; (g) treatment of municipal waste with energy potential in incineration facilities with high energy efficiency, including the transport of residues resulting from incineration to landfills; (h) mechanobiological treatment of residual waste in mechanobiological treatment facilities or, as the case may be, in integrated facilities of treatment, including the transport of biologically stabilized waste and residual waste that can no longer be delivered to landfills and residual waste that can be recovered energetically at energy recovery facilities; (i) mechanobiological treatment facilities; (j) disposal, through storage, of residual waste, street waste, soil and stone waste from public roads, residues from municipal waste treatment facilities, as well as waste that cannot be recovered from internal and/or external redevelopment and rehabilitation activities of housing facilities to non-hazardous waste dumps; (k) sweeping, washing and sprinkling of public roads in the locality, including the collection and transport of soil and stone waste from public roads to waste dumps, as well as waste from street bins to landfills and/or at the treatment facilities; (l) cleaning and transporting snow from public roads in the locality and keeping them in operation during frost or freezing weather; and (m) disinsection, disinfection and deratization at the facilities in the public and private domains of the administrative-territorial unit.