The realization of the necessary balance between the interest to create and consolidate a multinational unique market and to insure the consumer's protection is a hard task for any state and multinational authority. Its critical point consists of the ways through which a certain country succeeds in reconciling its need to open its borders with that of protecting the consumers, in the conditions in which the ensemble of national laws, usually, tend to restrain free commerce, presenting differences in the protection levels in different countries. In what concerns the Consumers' protection policy elaborated for Romania, respectively the law alignment to the community's aquis from this domain, we can say that that it registers slow progress, although, in the purpose of the EU joining, Romania has opened and closed the chapter regarding the consumer's protection since July 2001, without needing to ask for a transition period or derogations from the community's aquis.

consumer protection, National Authority for the Consumers’ Protection, consumers’ protection policy