The comisia de acord unic gathers several approving bodies into one procedure and issues a single agreement. Its membership, where it exists, how it works and what it costs are on the dedicated page, and we are not repeating them here.
One question is left over, which that page cannot ask: when does the commission actually shorten your calendar.
What does not go through the commission
Article 269 paragraph (1) routes the avize in article 266 paragraph (2) through the commission “cu excepția celor menționate la lit. f)-h), l) și m)”. Namely: the environmental authority’s opinion, the environmental agreement or Natura 2000 aviz, the water management aviz, the Ministry of Culture aviz, and the agreement of neighbours or the owners’ association.
The reason we wrote this is what follows.
Those five exceptions are not a remainder. On the evidence of what complicated files look like, they are precisely the avize that dictate duration: environment, water, heritage and neighbours. The commission consolidates the technical network avize, which were numerous and wearing, but rarely the ones that block.
That is the difference between being busy and being late. The commission solves the first problem very well. It does not touch the second, because it has no competence to touch it.
So the right question is not “do I go through the commission”. It is “what is left on the critical path once I do”, and the answer is read off your own certificat de urbanism, not off the law.
What you gain, and what it is worth
You gain a single deadline of 30 calendar days from the filing of complete documentation, article 269 paragraph (3); a fast filter, with notification within 5 working days if the documentation is incomplete, paragraph (4); and the coordination in article 306 letter c), by which the commission analyses how one body’s requested changes affect the conditions imposed by the other avize, and tells both you and them.
The third is the one with value, in our view, and the only one you cannot do yourself. Outside the commission, you are the one who discovers that the solution one body demands breaches another’s condition, usually after paying for both.
The first two are useful, but they are deadlines. A short deadline on the part that was not slow anyway changes less than it appears to.
Tacit approval of avize has a procedure, not just an effect
Article 269 paragraph (14) says that if an issuer does not issue, does not request clarification and does not reject with reasons within the deadlines in paragraphs (9) or (13), the aviz is treated as granted, and avize issued after tacit approval is invoked “nu produc efecte juridice”, produce no legal effects. Paragraph (16) describes how you carry on: on proof that you filed your response, and a statutory declaration. Paragraph (15) takes SNAOPSN institutions out of the mechanism.
The statutory declaration is where it is worth pausing. It is not a counter formality: it is your own assertion, about what you did not receive, and a permit rests on it. If somewhere along the way there was a message you did not see, the risk is yours, not the authority’s.
Tacit approval of avize is therefore not a passive benefit that happens to you. It is an instrument you invoke and take responsibility for.
How to decide
If your file carries many network avize and has no environmental, water or heritage component, the commission is the obvious choice and we see no argument against it.
If it does, the gain narrows to coordination. The commission’s 30 days run across deadlines it does not control, and under article 273 paragraph (3) the 30 days for the permit only start once the acord unic is issued, which we set out in the order of steps.
It is worth deciding early, because it moves when the clocks start, not just the route the paper takes.
The protocol decides who sits on the commission
The rules required by article 307 paragraph (1) set the membership, and the protocol between institutions decides who actually sits on the commission. Until primării publish them, work goes through their own platforms or by email, article 306 letter e). We have written about what stays local and about the single window’s timetable.
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.