Until 1st January 2019 only teaching staff from primary and secondary education could legally benefit from extra payment for simultaneous teaching, the right being recognized by art. 6 of chapter I of annex 5 of Law no. 63/2011, then by art. 33 paragraph 4 letter f of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 57/2015, and from 1st July 2017 through art. 38 of the framework Law no. 153/2017 on the etapized application of the new law.