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The traffic participants must respect the traffic rules, the signals, indications and instructions of the traffic police officer, as well as the meaning of the different types of road signalling means, in the following order of priority:

• will be respected with priority over all the other means of signalling: the signals, indications and instructions of the traffic police officer (these having the highest degree of priority);
• in the absence of the traffic police officer, we will respect with priority: the special warning signals, light and sound, of the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime (provided in art. 32 paragraph 2 letter a and b of OUG);
• in the absence of the special warning signals, light and sound, of the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime, we will respect with priority) the temporary signalling and/or the electronic signs, which modify the normal regime of carrying out the traffic;
• in the absence of the temporary signalling which modifies the normal regime of carrying out the traffic, we will respect with priority: the light or sound signals;
• in the absence of the light or sound signals, we will respect with priority: the road signs;
• in the absence of the road signs, we will respect with priority: the road markings;
• in the absence of the road markings, we will respect with priority: the traffic rules.

The correct answer is: A

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OUG* - Article 31

The traffic participants must respect the traffic rules, the signals, indications and instructions of the traffic police officer, as well as the meaning of the different types of road signalling means, in the following order of priority:
a) the signals, indications and instructions of the traffic police officer;
b) the special warning signals, light or sound, of the motor vehicles, provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b);
c) the temporary signalling and/or the electronic signs, which modify the normal regime of carrying out the traffic;
d) the light or sound signals;
e) the signs;
f) the markings;
g) the traffic rules.

OUG* - Article 32

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(2) Are authorized to use special light warning signals:
a) for the red light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police and firefighters;
b) for the blue light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police, gendarmerie, border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance service or forensic medicine, civil protection, the public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defence which accompany military columns, the special units of the Romanian Intelligence Service and of the Protection and Guard Service, the National Administration of Penitentiaries within the Ministry of Justice, as well as the service motor vehicles of the prosecutors from the Public Ministry, when they move in intervention actions or in missions which have an emergency character;
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* OUG = EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Code)