Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

The REGES-ONLINE system provides two separate interoperability Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). As explained on page 5 of the REGES-ONLINE Integration Report (Evidence No. 5), the “REGES-ONLINE system exhibits a separate interoperability API”, covering two categories of external systems: third-party systems and partner systems. Third-party systems refer to employers’ systems, which are used to submit employment-related data, such as employment contracts, employee records, and contract amendments, to the register through the dedicated API component. Partner systems refer to the systems of public authorities and institutions that have concluded cooperation protocols with the REGES-ONLINE system operator, the Labour Inspectorate. Romanian public authorities and institutions can access the register through a separate API, where such access is granted on the basis of legal obligations and established cooperation protocols. This access enables the extraction of employment-related data as well as the electronic submission, registration, and updating of the data in the system.

The Integration report (pages 4-5) states that the platform was “developed on the basis of an API ready strategy”, enabling communication between the IT systems of the Romanian public administration. This includes the systems of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the National Institute of Statistics, the National Agency for Payments and Social Inspection, the National Agency of Civil Servants and the National Public Pension House. The REGES-ONLINE platform therefore enables communication and data exchange between different IT systems of Romania’s public administration, thereby confirming its interoperability.

4. Commission Preliminary Assessment: Satisfactorily fulfilled.

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