In the third quarter of 2018, we initiated the closure of our Bucharest, Romania office location, which was a sales office for Image Sensing Systems EMEA Limited. The Company will continue doing business in the European region utilizing the Barcelona, Spain sales office. We incurred $2,000 of costs for the closure of our office in Romania in the three-month period ended March 31, 2019. No costs related to the closure of the Romania location were incurred in the three-month period ended March 31, 2018.

The following table shows the restructuring activity for the first three months of 2019 (in thousands):

	Termination Benefits		Facility Costs and Contract Termination		Total
Balance at December 31, 2018	$	18	$	4	$	22
Charges		2		—		2
Settlements		(9)		(4)		(13)
Balance at March 31, 2019	$	11	$	—	$	11

In the third quarter of 2016, in order to streamline our operating and cost structure, we initiated the closure of our following wholly-owned subsidiaries, Image Sensing Systems HK Limited (ISS HK) located in Hong Kong; Image Sensing Systems (Shenzhen) Limited (ISS WOFE) located in China; and Image Sensing Systems Germany, GmbH (ISS Germany) located in Germany. We incurred no costs for these entity closures in the three-month periods ended March 31, 2019 and March 31, 2018.