You have filed. From this moment deadlines run that you control only half of, and the interval before issue decides whether the 30 days in the law mean anything.
Filing is governed by article 270 and issue by article 273; what the file contains is on the building permit page.
The first ten working days decide the rest
Article 271 paragraph (1) gives the authority at most 10 working days from registration to notify you in writing of all the deficiencies it found.
The word “all” is the useful part. It is not a partial list, followed a month later by another. If you receive a notification, it should contain everything that is missing.
Paragraph (2) says the same notification tells you the period for completing the file, which cannot exceed 3 months. Paragraph (3) takes out of that ceiling the cases where the missing item is an instrument from the environmental authority, where the period is set so as to allow it to be obtained.
We set out how all the deadlines connect in the order of steps.
Consultation, if the notification is unclear
Article 272 gives you a tool few people will use.
The authority may invite you in to settle what else is needed, paragraph (1). But you can ask for the consultation yourself, on your own initiative, paragraph (2), and paragraph (3) says it takes place within at most 10 working days of the request.
Paragraph (5) reserves it for matters of substance. For clerical errors or omissions, paragraph (6) says to upload the corrections directly, with no consultation.
In practice: if you do not understand what is being asked of you, do not guess and do not file three times. Ask for the consultation, in writing, and you have a deadline.
What happens if you do not complete in time
Article 273 paragraph (5) describes a gentler consequence than many expect, but with a hard condition.
The documentation is returned to you, with an invitation to collect it, and you are told it can be completed and refiled within the validity of the certificat de urbanism.
So you do not lose the file. You lose time from a clock that runs separately. If the certificate expires meanwhile, you start again from the certificate.
The paragraph that changes what an aviz is
This is, in fact, why we wrote the article.
Article 273 paragraph (7) says that the avize and agreements issued for the purposes of the permit, including the acord unic, along with the environmental authority’s opinion or instrument, “se anexează autorizației de construire și devin parte din aceasta”, are annexed to the permit and become part of it.
Become part of it. Which means every condition written into an aviz is no longer an obligation towards that issuer, but a condition of the permit itself.
The practical consequence strikes us as underrated. An aviz obtained quickly, carrying conditions nobody read to the end, becomes a set of execution obligations. And at handover, compliance is checked against the permit, including everything annexed to it.
The conditions in your avize are worth reading before works start, not after. We discuss how this connects to avize obtained through the commission in the piece on the comisia de acord unic.
Who signs and who answers
Article 273 paragraph (6) lists the signatories: the county council president or the mayor, or their delegates, the secretary general, the chief architect or the officer responsible for the field, plus the person designated to draw up the permit. Paragraph (8) says responsibility for issuing it rests with the signatories.
It is useful to know that liability is personal on the authority’s side too, as it is on the designer’s, a subject we covered in who signs the design.
The indicator you can see from outside
The best sign that the 30-day deadline is working is a dull one: deficiency notifications really are complete the first time, as article 271 paragraph (1) requires. It is the only thing anyone outside the primărie can observe. And if the brief changes after issue, the route is set out in the modification permit. The piece that comes back from the counter most often has its own article: the site plan. And if the answer is negative, what the act must contain is in a refusal comes with reasons. Before any of this, though, title to the land is what gets checked: what title the permit needs.
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.