Romania / 2013 58% open

On the occasion of the 2013 OGP Summit, Romanian Government has finally launched the national open data repository. One of the first datasets published was the postcodes.

Data is provided via national open data repository. It includes name, identification number, fiscal registration number, areas of activity and locality (not full address).

The spending report is published monthly.

The Romanian Permanent Electoral Authority set up a portal where the results of the elections can be retrieved in XLS format. Usually, the results are published immediately after their validation by the Constitutional Court. Only the results of the more recent elections (after 2006, when the Electoral Authority was created) are available in re-usable format. The data is not explicitly licensed (thus the negative answer to the specific question) but they are available for free and can be reused.

The information refers only to national railway system (public company). There is no national bus company. The data can be retrieved only by interrogating the database on line.

The National Statistics Institute collects the data and it can be retrieved: (1) online, free of charge, PDF format, for the main indicators (2) online, interrogation of the database, a limited amount free of charge. There is an € sign next to non-free data. All data requires an account. (3) offline, bulk data, for a significantly higher fee, after submitting a specific request

The values of the air pollutants are available online on a special website of the National Agency for the Protection of the Environment. These values are updated daily and are displayed on an hourly basis for the two days before the current day. They can be read by accessing one or more of the 142 stations in Romania that continuously monitor the air quality.

The state budget is published as soon as it is approved by the Parliament on the Ministry of Public Finance website. The budget is presented as a set of PDF documents. The Ministry of Finance has formally refused (in written) to publish it as open data. On the same page, the Ministry publishes any rectification made during the year but the data is not aggregated. Thus, if one wants to know the actual budget, one has to take the information from two separate PDFs and make its own calculations.

The official institution that produces and collects geographical information regarded as the National Map is the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (ANCPI http://ancpi.ro), which is under the Government of Romania since 2012. At this time, there are NO freely available datasets of any kind for the Romanian territory on the official site of ANCPI. Furthermore, there are no official statements to acknowledge any intentions of making the National Map open data. In 2012, the geo-spatial.org (http://earth.unibuc.ro/) community addressed an open letter to ANCPI, signed by 184 members asking for free access as a downloadable file or through OGC webmapping standards, of a a vector format file of the boundaries of the Romanian municipalities. ANCPI offered to give us the requested dataset, but at the price established through the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs no. 39/2009, which for the entire Romanian territory, is about 800.000 EURO.Today, the dataset containing the boundaries of the Romanian municipalities is the only dataset available through a visualization service compliant with INSPIRE on the geoportal maintained by ANCPI. (http://geoportal.ancpi.ro/geoportal/catalog/main/aboutGeoportal.page). Not all datasets found in the ANCPI data catalog can be previewed through the geoportal's visualizing service. Freely available geodata can be found on the geo-spatial.org portal. The datasets are available through georeferenced downloadable files or through OGC webmapping standards (http://earth.unibuc.ro/download). The boundaries of the Romanian municipalities are freely available on the webpage of Political Colours of Romania interactively mapped project (http://193.231.187.122/omc/integration-download.html).

All legislation is published by the Monitorul Oficial, the official gazette. The contents are available for on-line for free for a period of 10 days after publication. Afterwards, the information is available at request, off-line, and for a fee.