You are prohibited from increasing the travel speed when another vehicle has started overtaking the vehicle you are driving. The road legislation obliges that when you are about to be overtaken, you do not increase the travel speed and you move as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway or of the lane on which you are moving.
In the action area of the sign “Recommended speed” you are allowed to increase the travel speed. This sign specifies which is the travel speed considered to be optimal for moving in safe conditions and for ensuring a fluent traffic.
If a vehicle moves faster on one of the lanes than the vehicles that move on another lane in the same direction of travel, it is not considered overtaking, this is called passing on the right and it can be performed on any of the traffic lanes of that direction. Therefore, considering that this maneuver is not considered to be overtaking, you do not have the obligation to respect Not increasing the travel speed, an obligation you have in the situation in which you are overtaken by another vehicle. Nevertheless, always the rules for using the traffic lanes must be taken into account, which you can find in this video lesson --> Traffic Code - Moving the vehicles on the public road
Regulation** - Article 119
The driver of a vehicle who is about to be overtaken is obliged:
a) not to increase the travel speed;
b) to move as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway or of the lane on which he is moving.
The road legislation does not provide anything in this regard.
OUG* - Article 45
(1) Overtaking is the maneuver through which a vehicle passes in front of another vehicle or next to an obstacle, located on the same direction of travel, by changing the direction of travel and leaving the traffic lane or the line of vehicles in which it was initially.
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(4) It is not considered overtaking, in the sense of paragraph (1), the situation in which a vehicle moves faster on one of the lanes than the vehicles that move on another lane in the same direction of travel.
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* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Traffic Code Regulation)
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