On September 21, 2026, Romania's Ministry of Economy, Digitalization, Entrepreneurship and Tourism (MEDAT) published a draft Government Decision amending and supplementing HG 409/2016, the national transposition of the EU Low Voltage Directive (2014/35/EU). The draft carries a concordance table mapping the Romanian rulebook against Directive (EU) 2024/2749, the IMERA instrument that inserts emergency conformity-assessment procedures, common specifications and crisis market-surveillance powers into the Low Voltage Directive. It is now in public consultation.
For manufacturers, importers and distributors placing low-voltage electrical equipment (50 to 1000 V AC, 75 to 1500 V DC) on the Romanian market, the headline is narrow but real: ordinary CE marking under HG 409/2016 is not being rewritten. What changes is that MEDAT is writing the EU's IMERA crisis toolkit into the Romanian LVD wrapper, and the consultation window is the moment to shape how those powers land nationally.
What does the draft change in HG 409/2016?
The draft is published with a nota de fundamentare (impact assessment), the draft Government Decision, and a concordance table against Directive (EU) 2024/2749. Together they transpose the IMERA amendments attached to the LVD: a mechanism for prioritized conformity assessment when the European Commission triggers an internal-market emergency, common specifications that can stand in for harmonized standards when those are missing or delayed, and reinforced market-surveillance powers for the authorities designated under HG 409/2016. The MEDAT consultation page hosts all three documents.
The substantive novelty is the crisis layer, not the baseline. Outside a declared emergency, LVD conformity assessment, technical documentation, the EU declaration of conformity and CE marking continue on their existing HG 409/2016 track. The amendment adds the IMERA procedures so that, once an emergency is declared, economic operators and LVD notified bodies have a national legal hook for accelerated assessment and for relying on common specifications in place of absent harmonized standards.
Who must act, and what is the consultation window?
The amendment reaches every actor in the Romanian low-voltage supply chain: manufacturers designing or assembling in-scope equipment, importers bringing non-EU goods onto the Romanian market, distributors, and the LVD notified bodies that issue EU-type examination certificates. On the surveillance side, ANPC (the National Authority for Consumer Protection) handles market surveillance for electrical equipment belonging to consumers, while ANCOM covers radio and EMC equipment of legal persons under the sibling HG 740/2016 and HG 487/2016 regimes.
Under Romania's transparency law (Legea 52/2003), a draft government decision is exposed for public consultation for at least 30 days, and MEDAT collects proposals through its online form and the transparency register. The consultation page does not yet post a closing date, so operators should treat the publication date, September 21, 2026, as the start of the clock and confirm the exact deadline on the MEDAT page before relying on it.
How does this fit the EU IMERA deadline Romania already missed?
Directive (EU) 2024/2749 had to be transposed across the EU by May 29, 2026 and applied from May 30, 2026. Romania's September 2026 consultation is therefore a late catch-up for the LVD slice, not an early mover. The sibling Romanian transpositions have already landed: an ANCOM note from February 2026 covered RED (HG 740/2016) and EMC (HG 487/2016), and HG 409/2026 of May 28, 2026 amended the machinery (HG 1029/2008) and ATEX (HG 245/2016) wrappers. This draft closes the remaining LVD gap.
| Romanian wrapper | EU instrument aligned | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HG 409/2016 (LVD) | Directive (EU) 2024/2749 (IMERA) | Draft, consultation opened 21 Sept 2026 |
| HG 740/2016 (RED) and HG 487/2016 (EMC) | Directive (EU) 2024/2749 (IMERA) | ANCOM note, February 2026 |
| HG 1029/2008 (machinery) and HG 245/2016 (ATEX) | Directive (EU) 2024/2749 (IMERA) | HG 409/2026, 28 May 2026 |
Mind the numbering trap: HG 409/2016 (the LVD wrapper being amended here) and HG 409/2026 (the May 2026 machinery and ATEX amendment) share the number 409 but are different acts six years apart.
Continuous, per-jurisdiction monitoring surfaces a consultation drop like this the day MEDAT publishes it, not months later when the final Government Decision lands in the Monitorul Oficial.
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Three steps now: confirm whether your products fall in LVD scope (50 to 1000 V AC, 75 to 1500 V DC) and reach the Romanian market; map your current HG 409/2016 conformity-assessment route against the concordance table to see which articles the IMERA provisions rewrite; and diary the consultation deadline from the MEDAT page, submit comments through the transparency form, and track the draft through adoption to publication in the Monitorul Oficial, when the crisis procedures become nationally binding. Obsidian follows each of those steps so a late-transposed directive does not catch a compliance team unprepared.
