The cost of an aviz is not negotiated at the counter. The law does not require the issuer to publish the amount, but the method by which it is calculated, and that obligation is written down, together with where it gets published.
What must be on the website before you file
Article 316 paragraph (1) letter a) requires the institutions and economic operators empowered by law to issue avize or acorduri to establish three things and make them available to the public and to the competent public authorities: the framework content of the specific documentation, the list of other documents and specific conditions required, and the method of final calculation of the taxes or tariffs for private investment works.
Where it is published is not left open. The text requires the issuer’s own website and display at its premises.
In practice, if you cannot find on the issuer’s site how the tariff is calculated, that absence is not a local quirk. It is an unmet obligation, and asking to be told the calculation method rests on a basis you can name.
One request for completions, within five working days
Letter d) says the issuer sends you, in writing or by email where you have declared an address, once only and within at most 5 working days of receiving the documentation, notice of any completions needed.
Paragraph (4) closes the gap: for avize that do not require analysis in a commission, no request for completion after the 5 working days is permitted.
So completions do not arrive in waves. If an issuer comes back a second time, after five days, on an aviz that does not go through a commission, that return has no cover in the text. For avize analysed in a commission, letter d) also points to other deadlines (the text says article 279 paragraphs (4) and (10), but what it describes matches article 269 paragraphs (4) and (10)), so there the five days are not the only window.
What it is not allowed to cost you
Letter i) prohibits charging analysis fees, consultancy fees or anything similar for public works projects, both new construction and interventions on existing buildings. This is an exemption by regime, not a general one: it concerns public works.
Letter n) adds a prohibition that runs across the whole list: the issuer cannot condition the issue of its aviz on first obtaining other avize or acorduri. That chain, where each issuer asks you for another one’s paper, is not an order imposed by law.
The rest of the list, briefly
Letter b) refers the issuing deadlines to article 269, except for avize on technical and utility networks needed at the technical-economic documentation stage. Letter f) requires applications to be filed and avize issued digitally. Letter g) requires the file to reach the commission agenda AND be analysed in commission within at most 30 days of submission, where the law requires a commission, and letter h) requires the beneficiary and the designers to be told the date of the sitting, whether or not they have the right to attend. Letter m) prohibits changing the case officer partway, with named exceptions: leaving the structure, leave, incapacity for work, disciplinary investigation.
Paragraph (3) sets its own deadlines for cultural heritage: 30 working days for buildings. Paragraph (2) takes environmental regulatory acts out of the article; they follow their own legislation.
How this connects to money
None of the obligations above is a discount. They are something else: they make the cost predictable before you file, and they stop the costs that come from repetition, meaning successive completions and avize demanded in a chain.
The permit fees themselves, which are a different category from issuers’ tariffs, are explained on the page about calculating the taxes.
What to check first
Before filing with an issuer, look for its website and see whether the calculation method is actually there. If it is not, you have a concrete basis on which to ask to be told it; if it is, you know the bill in advance. What happens when the answer deadline passes with no answer is in tacit approval shortens something.
This article is analysis, not legal advice. Provisions are cited from Legea 169/2026, published in Monitorul Oficial no. 661 of 10 August 2026. Check your own situation with the issuing authority. Romanian legal terms are kept in the original, because the Romanian text is the one that governs.