Quarter Century of Quality Management and Consumer Protection in Romania

Abstract

The former socialist communist rule kept Romania almost isolated from the Western World during about half a century 1945-1989 All about 7000 Romanian former state-owned companies which were operational at the end of 1989 were obliged by Law starting the years 60 to organize their own so-called CTC Technical Quality Control Department in order to only inspect the quality of their products In 1992 two years only after the fall of Ceausescu s dictatorship in Romania were published both the first Romanian edition of famous ISO 9001 standard in 1987 when ISO published its first international issue the former Romanian regime did not allow the translating of it in Romanian and the first Consumer Protection Act in Romania s history