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The red colour signal of the traffic light prohibits the passing of all road users. However, the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime may enter the intersection when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have an urgent character and have in operation the special light and sound signals may violate the traffic rules, except those that regulate the level crossing with the current railway and they are obliged to also respect the signals, indications and instructions of the traffic police officer.

Therefore, these are allowed to enter the intersection at the red colour of the traffic light.

The correct answer is: A

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Regulation** - Article 52

(1) The red colour signal prohibits the passing.
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OUG* - Article 61

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(2) The drivers of the motor vehicles belonging to the institutions provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b) may violate the legal speed limit or other traffic rules, except those that regulate the level crossing with the current railway, when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have an urgent character.
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OUG* - Article 62

(1) At the entry into the intersections where the red light of the traffic light is in operation or the signs require the giving of priority, the drivers of the motor vehicles provided in art. 61 paragraph (1) must reduce the speed and drive with increased attention for the avoidance of the occurrence of traffic accidents, otherwise they will be held liable according to the law.
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OUG* - Article 32

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(2) Are authorized to use special warning light signals:
a) for the red light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police and the firefighters;
b) for the blue light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police, the gendarmerie, the border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance or forensic medicine service, civil protection, the public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defence that 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 that have an urgent character;
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* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road traffic code regulation)