Only schools built after 1998 and those undergoing rehabilitation require a fire safety permit, the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations announced. It's a legislative flaw allowing older education institutions to stay open without having such a permit, ISU inspectors say. In case of buildings built before 1990, the Law only stipulates that fire safety officers have the obligation to conduct annual checkups and to inform students on what they must do in case the building catches fire. More than 23 hundred schools and 130 Universities do not have fire safety permits, although they should have obtained one. This clarifications were made in response to caretaker Prime Minister Sorin Cîmpeanu's statement that only 7 per cent of the schools in Romania were issued fire safety permits, 13 hundred out of 19 thousand, that is.