Basescu, who met with Van Rompuy Thursday, said after the meeting they discussed several issues including Schengen accession, monitoring under the Mechanism of Cooperation and Verification and ways for the country to exit the monitoring system after December.
The European Commission will release new monitoring reports under the mechanism for Romania and Bulgaria in December.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta said at the end of March he would write to EC president Jose Manuel Barroso requesting clear directions towards lifting monitoring under the Mechanism of Cooperation and Verification.
Also in March, during a debate in the European Parliament, Romanian MEPs called for a calendar to lift monitoring but the representative of the European Commission assyred the mechanism would continue as before.