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26 Apr 2012 (Mediafax-Bucharest) Romania's Prime Minister, Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, has announced that Monday, April 30, 2012, would be declared a one-off bridge public holiday, to link the weekend of April 28-29 with the annual May 1st Labour Day non-working public holiday. • 20 Apr 2012 (Ziare-Bucharest) The Romanian Government has announced that it will decide next week whether to declare Monday, April 30, 2012, as a one-off bridge public holiday, as it did a few years ago. • 20 Dec 2011 (Banca Nationala a Romaniei-Bucharest) The National Bank of Romania (BNR) has announced that Tuesday, January 3, 2012, would be a non-working bank holidays and financial sector holiday (zi bancara nelucratoare). • 05 Nov 2011 (Camera Deputatilor-Bucharest) A bill has been introduced, as expected, in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, which would declare Saint Andrew, as a new annual, November 30, non-working public holiday in Romania. • 13 Oct 2011 (Senatului României-Bucharest) The Romanian Senate has rejected legislation that would have created 2 new non-working public holidays in Romania; on March 21 and May 6. • 21 Aug 2011 (Banca Nationala a Romaniei-Bucharest) The Government of Romania has released the official list of 2012 non-working public holidays in Romania (zile libere si sarbatorile oficiale). • 10 Aug 2011 (Camera Deputatilor-Bucharest) Romania's media has begun reporting that the upcoming August 15, feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, will be a non-working public holiday in Romania for the first time. • 07 Jun 2011 (Bucarest Hebdo-Bucharest) The Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch has petitioned the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for it to declare November 30, the feast of St. Apostle Andrew, as a new annual legal public holiday. • 22 Mar 2011 (Camera Deputatilor-Bucharest) The Romanian Chamber of Deputies is set to finally vote, tomorrow, on the proposed new January 24 public holiday. • 12 Mar 2011 (Infolegal.ro-Bucharest) Romania's president, Traian Basescu, has finally signed a law making February 20 an annual official holiday to mark the end of Roma slavery. • 13 Jan 2011 (Infolegal.ro-Bucharest) The Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies Commission in charge of reviewing proposed public holidays, Claudia Boghicevici, has announced that the bill making January 24 an annual public holiday would not be approved in time for 2011. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Romania public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Romania are governed by Article 134, Title III, Chapter 2, Section 3, of the Romanian Labour Code (Codului Muncii). The lower house of Parliament (Camerei Deputatilor) has the final authority to amend the list of public holidays in Romania. • Unirii Day: is Romania's national day public holiday, commemorating the unification of Transylvania with the rest of Romania at the end of World War I, in 1918. • Religious Holidays: The Romanian Labour Code allows for "two days for each of the two annual religious holidays, declared as such by legal religious denominations, other than Christian, for the persons belonging to those religious denominations". • Several religious holidays including feasts of St. John (January 7), St. George (April 23), Sts. Peter & Paul (June 29), St. Mary (August 15), St. Michael (November 8) and St. Nicholas (December 6) are observed in rural areas . • Romania International Codes RO and ROU (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .ro (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Romania information and news: National Bank of Romania (Romania central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Romania maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Romania), and Wikipedia (includes Romania commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Romania, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Romania, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Romania, before planning any trip to Romania. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.