The request for renewal of the registration certificate in the National Register of Phonograms is made until the date of expiration of the previous certificate and entails the issuing of a new certificate with the existing data in the database. The validity period of the registration certificate in the National Register of Phonograms is 1 year from the date of issuance, according to art.36 par.5 of the Ordinance.

The replacement of the registration certificate in the National Register of Phonograms is carried out when there are changes, for example, headquarters, company name, addition of object of activity and/or completions of the documents based on which the initial registration was made, in accordance with art.36 par.6 of the Ordinance.

The documents for registration must contain the following:

Standard requests - For renewal: Form 4; For replacement: Form 4, Form 2 is submitted only in case of completion of the Annex with new working points/storage spaces.

Documents: Copies of:

-documents of modification, for example headquarters, change of form of organization etc. and/or completion of documents based on which the registration was made

-copy of CUI

-previous certificate and its Annexes, issued by the Romanian Copyright Office, the original will be submitted at the time of collecting the new certificate

-copy of the invoice/payment order regarding payment for the registration operation in the register.

The fees for the registration operations are provided by H.G.1086/2008 and Order no. 2029/2009, as follows:

-issuance of a new registration certificate, until the expiry date of the previous certificate validity 25 lei/activity

-if the certificate has expired 50 lei per activity, 20 lei/working point, 20 lei/storage space

-replacement of the registration certificate as a result of changing the identification data of the economic operator-50 lei

-in case registration of a new activity is requested if the initial certificate has not expired 50 lei

-express fee/additional request fee 300 lei.