Step 3 » GENERAL learning environment Category B (B, B1)

In addition to the obligation to stop at the signals of the traffic police officer, the participants in traffic are obliged to stop also at the signals of the traffic guides of the Ministry of National Defence. The latter can make, in addition to stop signals, the following signals: the brisk rotation of the arm in a vertical plane, with the palm facing the ground or with a means of signalling, which signifies speed reduction, as well as the brisk rotation of the arm, which signifies the increase of the travel speed of the vehicles, including hastening the road crossing by pedestrians. Failure to comply with these signals is sanctioned with a fine provided in the second class of sanctions.

It is not mandatory to stop at the signals of the drivers of vehicles who turn right or of the drivers of the vehicles coming from the opposite direction.

The correct answer is: A

Recommendations:

The signals of those authorized - Audio‑Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Signals of the traffic police officer

Second‑class contraventions - Audio‑Video Lesson --> Second‑class contraventions; Licence suspension 30 days; Application of 3 penalty points

Regulation** - Article 89

(1) The stopping of the participants in traffic is also mandatory at the signals given by:
a) the border police officers;
b) the traffic guides of the Ministry of National Defence;
c) the railway agents, at level crossings;
d) the authorized personnel in the area of works on public roads;
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(2) The persons provided in paragraph (1) letters a)-d) may also make the following signals: (We draw attention that between letters “a)-d)” there is a hyphen. This hyphen replaces letters b) and c), which means that the respective paragraph refers to letters from a) to d), including b) and c))
a) the swinging of the arm in a vertical plane, with the palm facing the ground or with a means of signalling, which signifies speed reduction;
b) the brisk rotation of the arm, which signifies the increase of the travel speed of the vehicles, including the hastening of the road crossing by pedestrians.

OUG* - Article 100

(1) Constitute contraventions and are sanctioned with the fine provided in the second class of sanctions the following acts committed by natural persons:
1. the failure to comply with the signals of the border police officers at the state border crossing points of Romania, of the traffic guides of the Ministry of National Defence, of the fiscal authorities within the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, of the railway agents, of the persons designated for directing the traffic, on the road sectors where rehabilitation works are carried out, as well as those of the school traffic patrols and of the blind persons;
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* OUG = EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the application of OUG 195/2002 updated (Regulation of the Road Traffic Code)