The recipients of meal vouchers who will sell the vouchers or will allow other persons to use these will be fined 2,500 to 5,000 lei. The penalties were introduced into the Contravention Code by amendments that were approved by the Cabinet, IPN reports.

If the employers reduce the salaries of employees for the reason that they offer them meal vouchers, these will face fines of over 10,000 lei. The same penalty is imposed for putting the used or restored meal vouchers into circulation repeatedly. The vendors who will sell tobacco products or alcoholic drinks for meal vouchers will be fined up to 15,000 lei, while the public eating places that will exchange meal vouchers for money will be fined up to 20,000 lei.

Under the current regulations, the nominal value of a meal voucher should be at least 35 lei. The number of vouchers given to the employee should be equal to the number of days worked the previous month. There are paper and electronic vouchers and these are not transferable. These can be used exclusively by the salary earner. It is banned exchanging vouchers for money. The meal vouchers can be used only to buy food products, except for alcoholic beverages and tobacco products.