The notification regime is usually described by what it removes. It is worth reading the other way round: what stays, and who carries the responsibility in place of the removed step.
Who qualifies is the subject of another article, do you qualify for the notification, and the procedure as a whole is on the simplified notification page. This looks at article 298.
The start is not the day you file
Paragraph (1) says execution of notified works may begin only after the term set by article 296 paragraph (6) has elapsed. The notification is not a button, it is a clock.
Technical checking disappears, responsibility does not
Paragraph (2): notified works are carried out with the complementary documentation requested and without technical checking for the fundamental quality requirements being necessary, responsibility for the correctness of the project resting exclusively with the design team, each on their own field, architecture or engineering.
That is a transfer, not a disappearance. The checking step performed in the ordinary regime by an attested checker, covered in when a project checker is actually required, does not exist here, and its weight moves wholly onto the designers.
The exception that brings two studies back
Paragraph (3) carves out the works at article 294 paragraph (2) letter a) point (ii): for those, a geotechnical study and a topographic study are mandatory, in order to adapt the standard design to the conditions of the site.
The logic shows: a standard design does not know the ground it lands on. Adapting to the site is exactly where a design that works elsewhere may not work here. The ground studies are covered in geotechnical study or expert report.
What we expect to see in practice
This is the opinion part. In a regime without a checker, project quality depends entirely on who signs it, and the beneficiary has no second filter. We expect the difference between designers to matter more here than in the ordinary regime, and for that to show at handover rather than at filing.
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.