Events from the year 2003 in Romania.
Incumbents
President: Ion Iliescu
Prime Minister: Adrian Năstase
Events
February
5 February – The new labour code is published in the Monitorul Oficial. 14 February – The remains of Carol II and of his wife, Magda Lupescu, are repatriated from Portugal and placed inside the Curtea de Argeș Cathedral.
March
1 March – The new labour code enters force.
May
24 May – The Democratic Party celebrates its 10 year anniversary in Constanța without its founder, Petre Roman.
October
18–19 October – The 2003 Romanian constitutional referendum takes place.
Births
July
11 July – Costin Amzăr, footballer. 26 July – Luca Andronache, footballer.
Deaths
May
15 May – Constantin Dăscălescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1923)
September
9 September – Andrei Folbert, 72, Romanian basketball player.
October
4 October – Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia. 12 October – Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.
November
22 November – Iosif Budahazi, 56, Romanian fencer (men's individual sabre, men's team sabre at the 1972 Summer Olympics).