Most dossiers are not rejected. They are notified. What follows the notification depends on a test the text names explicitly and that few people apply: whether the gap is one of substance or of form.
The notification, and its two deadlines
Article 271’s two deadlines, the 10 working days in which the primărie notifies you and the at most 3 months in which you complete, are already on the page about the autorizație de construire. Keep one word from there, because everything below hangs on it: the notification carries every deficiency found, not the first ones spotted.
Two details do not make it into summaries. Paragraph (3) takes environmental acts out of the 3-month calculation, where the period is set so as to allow them to be obtained. And paragraphs (4) and (5) let both the notification and the reply to it travel digitally, through the Ghișeul unic național.
Where the consultation fits
Article 272 describes a separate stage. The authority may invite the applicant to its premises to establish together the documents, information and completions needed for the permit to be issued.
Paragraph (2) is the part worth keeping: the applicant may ask for the consultation themselves, on their own initiative, regarding the content of the notification received. It is not a favour you wait for, it is a request you make.
Paragraph (3) puts a deadline here too. The consultation takes place within at most 10 working days of receiving the notification, or of the date you asked for it.
The test that decides the route
Paragraph (5) limits the consultation to situations where the documents, information and completions needed concern the substance of the documentation, the fond.
Paragraph (6) handles the other category: where the clarifications, completions and modifications concern matters of form, such as clerical errors or omissions, you submit or upload directly into the Ghișeul unic, with no consultation.
The distinction has an immediate practical consequence. If you were notified about a transcription error in a table, there is nothing to discuss at the counter, and booking a meeting can eat into the 3 months. If instead the notification puts a technical solution in question, you are in the only category for which a consultation is possible at all, and paragraph (2) gives you the way to ask for one. The text says the authority may invite, not that it must, so your own initiative is the part you control.
Why it matters who classifies the deficiency
Nothing in the text says who decides whether a deficiency is one of substance or of form. The notification arrives with the list, not with the label. In practice you make that reading, and if you make it wrongly you lose either time on a pointless meeting or the chance to clarify a requirement you will otherwise guess at instead of learning.
A dossier filed complete from the start reduces the surface on which this can go wrong, and what goes into it is described on the page about the autorizație de construire.
Worth reading alongside a rejection comes with reasons, which covers the other end of the same procedure, and the ghișeu unic at five years, where the documents above travel.
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.