The list of instruments repealed when the Codul urbanismului took effect has five entries, at article 576 paragraph (3): Legea nr. 350/2001, Legea nr. 50/1991, part of Legea nr. 10/1995 on construction quality, Ordinul nr. 233/2016 and Ordinul nr. 839/2009. What each one means for an actual file is set out on the pages about Legea 50/1991 and Legea 169/2026.
Two of those five entries are not whole repeals, and their exceptions are the part we most often see read wrongly.
Two entries are not whole repeals
What follows in this section is reading, not opinion, but it is worth putting up front because it is easy to miss.
Legea nr. 10/1995 does not disappear. The text repeals “dispozițiile art. 1-9, art. 11-40 și ale art. 42-44”. The numbering steps over article 10 and over article 41. We read those as remaining in force, because they are not on the list, but that is an inference from the text’s silence rather than something it states. If a file of yours turns on either of them, confirm with a lawyer before relying on our reading.
Likewise, Ordinul nr. 233/2016 is repealed “cu excepția anexei nr. 4”, of annex 5 and of annex 6: the informal-settlements data sheet and the two sets of technical norms for spatial data. Those are precisely the technical annexes you need in order to produce documentation in GIS format, and the code builds on them.
Repealed does not mean the shelf is empty
This is the point we think is worth leaving with.
Article 583 paragraph (1) says that government decisions adopted under the repealed instruments stay applicable until decisions with the same subject matter, adopted under the code, come into force. Paragraph (2) adds the obvious condition: they apply so far as they do not contradict the code.
Article 577 goes further and names the regulations that stay in force until they are amended: the five annexes to Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 766/1997, the technical verification and expert-review regulation in Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 925/1995, the handover regulation in Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 273/1994, the state quality-control one in Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 492/2018, and the construction-regulation one in Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 203/2003.
And article 583 paragraph (3) closes the loop: where a special law refers to provisions repealed by the code, that reference is treated as a reference to the code.
What this means in practice
It means “Legea 50/1991 has been repealed” and “what it said no longer matters” are two different statements, and the second one is false.
The procedure changed: who issues, within what deadline, on which form, with which avize. There, a text that talks to you about Legea 50/1991 walks you into a wall, and we have written separately about the gap between the forms and the websites.
The technical rules on quality, handover and expert review, by contrast, are largely the same documents, now invoked on a different legal basis. A technical report citing the handover regulation in Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 273/1994 is not out of date because the framework law changed.
The useful distinction is not “old or new”. It is “procedure or technical”. The first was replaced outright; the second is being replaced piece by piece, at the pace the new decisions appear.
What remains to be seen
The pace at which the government decisions replacing the regulations above actually arrive. Until then, each of them is a piece of old legislation applied on a new basis, and that is a predictable source of disagreement between designer and authority. We have written about the transition deadlines and about what is left to each primărie.
This article is analysis, not legal advice. The provisions cited are from Legea 169/2026, published in Monitorul Oficial no. 661 of 10 August 2026. Check your own situation with the issuing authority.