[1] The Romanian newspaper Gândul reported that Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University started 34 Master's degree curricula for which it had no legal right of teaching.
[3][4][5] According to the university's rector, Corina Dumitrescu, the relevant law has a loophole, since it uses a present continuous tense, which is uncharacteristic for the Romanian language.
[3][4] She says that institutional evaluation (accreditation as required by law) may also happen after the curricula have been taught.
The actual wording in Romanian is universitate acreditată supusă periodic evaluării instituţionale ("accredited university subject to periodical institutional evaluation"), and Dumitrescu argues that care se supun ("which are subject to") means that an accredited institution can be evaluated "today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow" (and presumably, any time), not that its curricula would need to have been evaluated (i.e. accredited) in the past.
[8] Following this, "education-centered universities" in Romania were no longer allowed to offer postgraduate degree programmes.