Yesterday, the Romanian Government has approved the Emergency Ordinance on the organisation and functioning of the National Unique System for Emergency Calls (SNUAU). This document establishes the responsibilities of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology (ANRCTI), of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI), of the administrator of the National Unique System for Emergency Calls, of the intervention bodies and of the providers of public electronic communications networks, and provides for financing the operation of the 112 system.
This emergency ordinance establishes that the management, the operation, the maintenance and the development of the SNUAU shall be financed from the state budget, provided that ANRCTI pays to the state budget, on an annual basis, a certain amount of the revenues from the spectrum usage tariff and from the tariff for the use of numbering resources.
The ordinance provides also for establishing the National Committee for the SNUAU Coordination, which will function under the authority of the Romanian Government, with the mission to set up and elaborate the policy and strategy for the functioning, operation and development of the SNUAU, as well as of the 112 emergency service in Romania. ANRCTI will take part in this National Committee, together with MCTI, the Ministry of the Interior and of Administrative Reform, the Ministry of Public Health and the administrator of the SNUAU.
Following the adoption of this Emergency Ordinance, ANRCTI is entrusted with the attributions of establishing the technical and economic conditions regarding the communications to SNUAU, as well as the technical conditions for providing caller location data by the providers of public telephone networks. By the time ANRCTI elaborates the regulations on the provision of SNUAU caller location data, the problems regarding the reception and processing of 112 caller location data, on mobile networks, will have been solved based on a protocol concluded between MCTI, ANRCTI, the SNUAU administrator and the mobile operators, according to the action plan provided in the Memorandum approved by the Government on January 9, 2008.