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When you want to perform the overtaking maneuver, you have the following obligations:

• to make sure that the vehicle in front and the one behind have not signalled the start of a similar maneuver and that you can overtake without endangering or without hindering the traffic from the opposite direction;
• to signal the intention to perform the maneuver;
• to keep during the overtaking a sufficient lateral distance from the overtaken vehicle;
• to re-enter the initial line of vehicles after you have signalled and made sure that you can perform the maneuver in safety conditions for the overtaken vehicle and for the other traffic participants.

The correct answer is: A

Recommendations:

Rules regarding performing the overtaking maneuver - Audio-Video Lesson --> Traffic Code - Overtaking

Regulation** - Article 118

(1) The driver of the vehicle who performs the overtaking is obliged:
a) to make sure that the one who follows him or the one who precedes him has not signalled the intention to begin a similar maneuver and that he can overtake without endangering or without hindering the traffic from the opposite direction;
b) to signal the intention to perform the overtaking;
c) to keep during the overtaking a sufficient lateral distance from the overtaken vehicle;
d) to re-enter the lane or into the initial line of traffic after he has signalled and made sure that he can perform this maneuver in safety conditions for the overtaken vehicle and for the other participants in traffic.
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** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Traffic Code Regulation)