This paper highlights the stages of Romania’s adherence to the European Banking Union (EBU). Although the initial estimated adherence schedule conceived by the National Bank of Romania, the Ministry of Public Finances, The Bank Deposits’ Guarantee Fund and the Authority for Financial Supervision was not respected, the transposition into national law of the relevant European legal dispositions having been delayed, at present they do...

This paper presents the new rules regarding the access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, as they are to be found in EU Regulation No 575/2013 and Directive 2013/36/EU, which define the legal frame of the new European Banking Union. The presentation takes into account the economical context which led to the European Banking Union’s project in the last three ...