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, a United Kingdom subsidiary. The Company will continue doing business in the European region utilizing its Barcelona, Spain sales office. We incurred $2,000 of costs for the closure of our office in Romania in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019. No costs related to the closure of the Romania location were incurred in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2018.

The following table shows the restructuring activity for the first nine 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		(20	)		(4	)		(24	)
Balance at September 30, 2019	$	—		$	—		$	—

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 nine-month periods ended September 30, 2019 and September 30, 2018.