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RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MINISTRY OF ADMINISTRATION AND INTERIOR

MAI's responsibilities in the field of public order and safety:

according to the law, it sets measures for defending the human fundamental rights and liberties, as well as for defending the public and private property;

according to its competence, it organizes and develops, through specialized structures, activities for preventing and countering terrorism, organized crime, illicit trafficking and consumption of drugs, trafficking in persons, illegal migration, computer crime, as well as other crimes and antisocial deeds;

organizes, guides and coordinates the activities meant to protect persons, goods, objectives and values, and organizes the guard of special importance objectives which come within its jurisdiction, according to the law;

ensures, according to its competence, the performing of investigation activities regarding the deeds provided by the criminal law;

organizes the activity of witnesses' protection;

requests from public authorities, natural or legal persons, different information, data and documents necessary for fulfilling the attributions provided by, and within the limits of, the law; it can reward natural persons who grant support to the ministry in the fulfilment of its specific attributions, from the fund allotted with this destination, under the conditions set by order of the minister of administration and interior;

ensures the respect of Romania 's state border regime;

draws up and uses the National Register of Weapons and the Criminal Records;

sets up and uses the National System of Aliens Records; ensures the respect of the aliens legal regime on the territory of Romania ;

ensures the drawing up, selection, keeping, conservation and use of documents from the National Archives Fund;

organizes and executes the medical and psychological backup of specific missions;

l leads the activity of intelligence and internal protection.

MAI's responsibilities in the field of public administration:

monitors the enforcement of provisions contained by the strategies and programs of reform and restructuring of the central and local public administration, elaborated on basis of the Governing Programme, in compliance with the European Union standards and the domestic legislation and it ensures the achieving of strategies and programs in its own activity field;

guides and controls the prefect's activity for the fulfilment of the Governing Programme;

initiates projects of enactments in the field of decentralized public services;

guides and supports the local public authorities and their own apparatus in the proper and unitary enforcement of the legal provisions and in fulfilling their attributions granted by the law;

ensures the consulting with non-governmental organizations and with the authorities of the local public administration, under the conditions of the law;

endorses the projects of enactments elaborated by ministries and by other specialty bodies of the central public administration, enactments that contain provisions related to the local public administration;

monitors the cooperation agreements and conventions that the authorities of the local public administration conclude with authorities of the local public administration from other countries;

in collaboration with the authorities of the local public administration, it elaborates and monitors development strategies and programs for the urban infrastructure and communal husbandry services and it grants support for the achieving of some public-private partnership projects;

ensures the setting up and functioning of management units for projects with foreign reimbursable and non-reimbursable financing, provided by foreign financial institutions;

elaborates and submits for approval the industrial parks strategy of development;

in its activity field, it sets the dialogue and social partnership with the trade unions and patron federations which are representative at the national level;

through the subordinated specialty structures it ensures the enforcement of the strategy and Governing Programme in the domain of the public function management and public servants, the formation and improving of the specialized professional training in administration, the activity of geodesy, topography, photogrametry, teledetection, cadastre and cartography, the monitoring of the unitary enforcement of the Law no. 10/2001 pertaining to the legal regime of certain real estates abusively taken over during the period March 6, 1945 - December 22, 1989, the persons records, as well as the activity of preventing and managing the civil emergency situations;

sets up and operates the National Computerised System of the Persons Record.

	Other duties :
elaborates, approves and keeps the record of enactments projects regarding the activity of the ministry and of the units in its structures and supports them in front of the Government and of the Parliament; elaborates the objectives and guidelines of the international activity in the field of public administration and internal affairs, in compliance with the Governing Programme and with the obligations reverting to it pursuant to international documents to which Romania is a party and according to the strategy of European and Euro-Atlantic integration; organizes, coordinates, ensures and executes, in the country and abroad, cooperation and international relations activities, in its field of competence; coordinates and controls the observance by the subordinated structures of the provisions comprised in the own enactments of organizing and functioning; achieves the human resources management; elaborates the ministry's draft of budget, organizes and controls the entire economic-financial activity of loans approval; initiates enactments projects pertaining to the wages of public servants and of public servants with special statute; achieves the logistic management; exercises its duties provided by the law related to the activity performed by the autonomous administration, as well as by other subordinated units or departments; organizes, coordinates and controls the own activity of communications, IT, military mail, as well as the activity regarding the state cipher, the communications secrecy and protection; it manages the governmental and nongovernmental radio-electric spectrum allotted for the fulfilment of specific missions; exercises, according to the law, its duties regarding the defence against fires, the civil protection and the environment protection; through the own specialty units, it organizes and ensures prophylactic, curative and recovering psychological and medical assistance for the active personnel, for the retired workers, their family members and other categories of persons; implements Romania 's policies in the refugees domain; organizes and coordinates the activity of issuing and general record of identity and travel documents; organizes and coordinates the activity of issuing and registration of driver licenses and of road vehicles registration certificates; ensures the legal protection of the own patrimony and of its legitimate interests in front of the Courts of law; organizes, leads and controls the activity of decisional transparency, public information and relations with the press, of releasing publications, films, shows and audiovisual materials regarding the specific activity; negotiates and concludes specialty assistance agreements for achieving the reform programs in its activity field; leads its own specialty educational institutions; ensures the carrying out of all the activities related to the environment protection, according to the law; any other attributions provided by the law.