Free Movement of Workers within the European Union. Transitional Measures on Romanian Workers

The free movement of persons is one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European internal market. One of its important components is the free movement of workers within the Union, as provided for in Articles 45 and 46 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. This provides any national of a Member State of the European Union the right to an employment activity and to pursue such activity in another Member State, subject to limitations justified on grounds of justified public policy, public security and public health restrictions. As far as Romania is concerned a set of transitory measures was set up by the Treaty of Accession, temporarily restricting access of Romanian workers on the labor markets of the Member States, during which the access to the labor markets of the Member States may be regulated by national measures, or by those resulting from bilateral agreements.