Preliminary assessment of the third payment request of Romania (2024)

In addition, the Law provides details regarding the cooperation mechanisms and responses of institutions. To this extent, Articles 20 to 26 of the Law describe the management of incidents and cyber resilience. Moreover, Chapter V of the Law lays down information regarding the national system of cyber alert, a set of technical and procedural measures aimed at preventing, deterring and combating actions or inactions that may constitute vulnerabilities, risks or threats to Romania’s cybersecurity.

Information regarding the procedures for conducting research, development and innovation in cyber security are presented in Articles 32 to 33 of Chapter VII of the Law, while Chapter VIII focuses on the cooperation in the fields of cyber security and cyber defence, thereby establishing the framework for cooperation mechanisms, as required by the description of the milestone in the Annex to the Council Implementing Decision. Commission Preliminary Assessment: Satisfactorily fulfilled

Related Measure: Increasing digital competence for public service and digital Number: 152 education throughout life for citizens Name of the Milestone: Entry into force of the ministerial order of the Minister of Labour and the National Institute of Statistics President for the definition of new digital occupations in the Classification of Occupations (COR) Qualitative Indicator: Provision in the order of the Minister of Labour and National Institute of Statistics President indicating the entry into force of the Time: Q3 2022 amendment defining new digital occupations in the COR. Context:

Milestone #152 is part of reform C7.R4, which aims to support the digitalisation of the economy and the transition to industry 4.0 and to align the labour market to the latest developments in this sector.

Milestone #152 requires that a ministerial order of the minister of Labour and the National Institute of Statistics President define the new digital occupations present in the Romanian Classification of Occupations (COR) equivalent to those existing in the countries of the European Union, in line with good practices in digitalisation. In addition, it requires that a diagnosis study/analysis shall be carried out to forecast labour needs in the context of the digital transformation of the economy and the transition to industry 4.0 for the next five years.

Milestone #152 is the only step in the implementation of reform C7.R4. The implementation of the reform shall be completed by 30 September 2022.

Evidence provided: The following evidence was provided:

   i.   Cover note duly justifying how the milestone was fulfilled;
  ii.   Copy of the publication in the Official Journal No. 880 of 7 September 2023 of the
        Ministerial Order of the Minister of Labour and the National Institute of Statistics
        President No. 1348/784, on defining new digital occupations in the Occupations
        Classification of Romania (hereinafter referred to as the “Ministerial Order”);
 iii.   Annex: Analysis Study conducted to provide a forecasting for the next five years of the
        labour needs in the context of the digital transformation of the economy and the