Romania’s candidacy was approved by Memorandum in Government session, on 4 April 2019, andwas submitted by official letter to the ITU General Secretary.

The host country of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference is designated following a two-stage process: in this first stage, Romania has been granted the unanimous consent of 48 ITU Council members. Next, the Secretary-General of the Union will consult all 193 ITU member states on the organization of PP-22 in Bucharest.

 

According to the ITU Constitution, the Plenipotentiary Conference is the supreme decision-making body of the Union and has the role of adopting ITU's overall policy, strategic and financial plans and choosing its leadership (the ITU Council as mandated by the Plenipotentiary Conference, the Secretary-General, the Director of the Radiocommunications Bureau, the Director of the Standardization Bureau, and the Director of the Development Bureau). During this event, the future of the organization as a whole is decided, as well as its ability to influence various IT&C related trends, such as technology convergence, Internet development and universal service.

The 21^st edition of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, organised in 2022, will be held for three weeks and will bring together more than two thousand participants, including heads of government, ministers and other delegates from the 193 ITU member states, as well as representatives of major IT&C companies, of academia and of the national, regional and international bodies in the field.