State civil servants are civil servants established by law within:
- ministries

- specialized bodies of the central public administration (e.g. agencies, authorities, etc.)

- specialized structures of the Presidential Administration (e.g.: Chancellery of Orders)

- specialized structures of the Romanian Parliament
- autonomous public authorities provided for in the Constitution of Romania and other autonomous administrative authorities, as well as within the structures of the judicial authority

Territorial public functions are public functions established, according to the law, within:
- the Prefect's Institution
- deconcentrated public services of the ministries and other central public administration bodies of the administrative-territorial units, as well as territorial public institutions subordinated/coordinated/under the authority of the Government, ministries and other central public administration bodies (e.g.: directorates, agencies, etc.)

Local public functions are public functions established by law within:
- the proper apparatus of local public administration authorities and public institutions subordinated to them (e.g.: town halls, county councils, local public services - taxes, personal records, etc.).

Executive civil servants
- one year for executive public service posts at assistant professional grade
- 5 years to fill an executive public post at principal professional grade
- 7 years to fill a senior professional post
    

Senior management
- 5 years for the management positions of head of service and secretary-general of the municipality, and the equivalent specific public posts
- 7 years for senior management positions other than those referred to above.

- Romanian citizenship and residence in Romania;
- knowledge of Romanian, written and spoken;
- at least 18 years of age;
- full exercise capacity;
- medically and psychologically fit to hold public office. The attestation of the state of health is based on a specialized medical examination by the family doctor, respectively on a psychological assessment organized by specialized units accredited under the law;
- fulfillment of the conditions of education and seniority in the specialized field required by law for the occupation of the public position;
- fulfillment of the specific conditions, according to the job description, for the occupation of the public position;
- has not been convicted of an offense against humanity, against the State or against authority, crimes of corruption or offenses of service, offenses that impede the administration of justice, forgery or an intentional crime that would make it incompatible with the exercise of public office, unless the offense has been rehabilitated, post-conviction amnesty or decriminalization;
- they have not been disqualified from holding public office or from exercising the profession or activity in the performance of which they have committed the act by a final court judgment, under the conditions of the law;
- has not been dismissed from a public office or had his/her individual employment contract terminated for disciplinary reasons within the last 3 years;
- has not been a Securitate agent or collaborator under the conditions provided for by the specific legislation

* If among the specific conditions it is established that among the specific conditions it is necessary to obtain a permit(s)/approval(s) prescribed by law, this condition is fulfilled in compliance with the provisions of the specific legislation on the fulfillment of the condition.
* In order to occupy public managerial positions, candidates must be graduates with a master's degree in public administration, management or in the specialty of studies necessary for the occupation of the public position or with an equivalent degree according to the provisions of art. 57 para. (2) of Law no. 199/2023. 
* By exception, the public management positions at the level of local public administration authorities organized at the level of municipalities and towns may be filled, through a competition organized in accordance with the law, by persons who have a bachelor degree with diploma, respectively long-term higher education studies with a bachelor degree or equivalent or short-term higher education studies with diploma, in the field of studies necessary for the public position.

A civil servant is a person appointed, by an administrative act, in accordance with the law, to a public office.

- senior civil servants

- senior civil servants

- executive civil servants (grade: junior/assistant/ principal/senior)

The following are appointed as junior civil servants:

- persons who have passed the competition for a junior professional civil servant post

- persons appointed following the conversion of posts of a contractual nature until January 1, 2020 into posts in the civil service and who do not meet the conditions of seniority in the specialist field required for a permanent executive civil servant post

shall be appointed as permanent civil servants: 

- junior civil servants who have completed the probationary period required by law and have obtained the appropriate result in the assessment; 

- persons who enter the civil servants body in the manner prescribed by law and who have at least one year's seniority in the field of studies required for the public office.

NOT ALL BUDGET OFFICIALS ARE CIVIL SERVANTS! 

- contract staff employed in the departments of public authorities and public institutions, who carry out secretarial, administrative, protocol, housekeeping, maintenance-repair and servicing, security, and other categories of staff who do not exercise public authority
- salaried staff employed in the office of a dignitary
- members of the judiciary, persons treated as members of the judiciary and, where appropriate, categories of court support staff
- teachers and other categories of staff in educational establishments and institutions; 
- persons appointed or elected to public office
- staff in health establishments

staff of autonomous regions, national companies and firms and public sector companies
- military personnel
- members of Romania's diplomatic and consular corps and contractual staff employed in specific positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.