For all legal persons Radio TV fee payment for broadcasting services is not conditioned by radio/TV possession.
Legal persons may be allocated to one of the following categories of payers:
- Legal persons that do not have employees;
- Legal persons coming under the coverage the provisions of article 103 in the Fiscal code, as subsequently amended and completed;
- The legal persons with the residence in Romania, including their subsidiaries, as well as their branches, agencies and representative offices, as well as the representative offices in Romanian of foreign legal persons.
In order to determine the radio TV fee level for public broadcasting service, legal persons will submit next documents:
- Declaration Annex 5
- The necessary documents according to their legal personality
The following categories are exempted from Radio/TV fee payment:
- Subunits without legal status (working points);
- State-owned sanitary units subordinated to the Ministry of Health;
- Parishes, monasteries, districts of an archpriest, episcopacies, archiepiscopacy, The Cathedral, Patriarchy, cemeteries or any other religious institutions accepted in Romania;
- State-owned educational units subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Research (pre-school, school, gymnasium, high school and higher education);
- State-owned nurseries and children’s homes;
- Asylums;
- Military units;
- Non-profit associations and foundations, lodgers association, owners association;
- Diplomatic missions and their members.
Documents required for the exemption of Radio/TV fee payment:
- application for exemption Annex 4
- justifying documents, according to the legal form
Small enterprises — statement of the state budget payment liabilities 100 code 14.13.01.01 endorsed by the local Finance Administration — the last submitted form, corresponding to the last closer quarter.
Tourism companies — description of the nominal allocation of the accommodation areas, endorsed by the General Directorate for Tourism Authorization and Control, showing the number of rooms.
For the units with seasonal activity, the TV fee is charged only during the operation period.
Radio TV Fees
Electrica Furnizare Transilvania Nord collects this fee for The Romanian Radio/TV Company on the strength of a concluded contract based on Governmental Decisions No. 977/2003 and 978/2003 published in Official Gazette No. 607/2003.
Electrica Furnizare Transilvania Nord has not established this fee and does not setup its value.
All legal persons with the residence in Romania, including their subsidiaries, branches, agencies and representative offices, as well as the representative offices in Romanian of foreign legal persons are obliged to pay a monthly fee for the radio/TV public service.
The obligation for the payment of the radio/ TV fee for all legal persons is not bound to whether they hold radio/TV receptors.
General previsions
- A radio receptor is any device that can receive radio programs, as follows: home radio sets, car radio, mobile phones, computer, iPods or any other devices able to receive radio programs in any manner, as well as TV cable subscriptions.
- The statutory declarations given by the natural persons for the exemption from the payment of the fee for the radio public service shall be renews annually at least 30 days before reaching the deadline of twelve months after the last submitted declaration. This kind of declarations submitted within the aforementioned deadline become effective the month following the month when the declaration was submitted. In case this statutory declaration is not renewed, you shall be rightfully charged the fee for the radio public service.
- The statutory declaration is made acknowledging the provisions and sanctions under article 292 in the Penal Code concerning false declarations.
- In the statutory declaration there has to be mentioned that radio receptors are not held in the house, in the private car, mobile phone, iPods or any other devices receiving radio programs, as well as TV cable subscriptions.
- The statutory declaration has to compulsorily comprise the following elements for the identification of natural persons: surname and first name, Personal Identification Number, the data on the ID, the exact address, the client code on the electricity invoice (for which the declaration is made).
- If payment is not made on time for the Radio and TV public services, natural and legal persons will be charged with this fee for every day of delayed payment. These penalties are determined in accordance with calculation methodology for late payment of electricity invoice issued by Electrica Furnizare, which is mandated by law to invoice and collect these fees for Radio and TV public services.
