The simplified notificare for construction works

Which works qualify for notificare

The works below are only possible outside protected zones and buffer zones around historic monuments.

• New constructions exterior to single-family homes (garages, covered terraces, pergolas, summer kitchens, kiosks, pools, sanitary facilities) not exceeding 50 sqm in total, including annexes under 20 sqm built with a foundation, permanent and non-demountable, only in rural areas, within the built-up area boundary, except rural localities within metropolitan zones.
• One single-family home, with its own access and plot, ground floor only or semi-basement plus ground floor, with no basement, with a maximum built floor area of 150 sqm, within the built-up area boundary of rural localities, on standard designs made available by the public authorities, resulting from design competitions, or on individual designs prepared by a specialist technical team, approved by the county chief architect.
• Building a new enclosure by demolishing the existing one.
• Replacing the existing roof in the same shape, or by reconfiguring and raising it by at most 0.50 m, if it stays within the maximum permitted height.
• Other interventions on existing buildings (loft conversions, renovating and extending the bathroom or kitchen, repartitioning, facade remodelling, energy retrofits, changes of use) also qualify for notificare, but each carries its own condition: facade remodelling only where it has no load-bearing structural role, energy retrofits only on individual dwellings of at most 3 levels and without changing the structural system, loft conversions only without changing the overall volume and without reinforcement, and a change of use only for commercial or office functions with public access. The full list is on the Works without a permit page.

In buffer zones around historic monuments and protected built-up areas, notificare is possible only for minor works (repairs that do not affect the volume, shape and facade decorations) with the written approval of the culture directorate.

Site works through notificare

• Setting up campsites or light-structure holiday camps for at most 20 people, with access to local public utilities.
• Increasing a campsite's or holiday camp's capacity by at most another 20 people, under the same utilities condition.
• Changes within an existing campsite or holiday village: accesses, roads, parking, enclosures, lighting, sanitary facilities.
• Setting up a sports ground with no public.
• Setting up an amusement park or sports games, seasonal or temporary, on at most 2 hectares.
• Setting up public spaces, outside protected built-up areas.
• Setting up facade gardens, outside protected built-up areas.
• Pavements, retaining walls, access stairs or outdoor terraces within protected built-up areas, with notice to the Ministry of Culture.
• Planting protective forest shelterbelts and afforesting degraded land that previously had forest vegetation.
• Underground and above-ground funerary constructions, with the cemetery administration's aviz, and the Ministry of Culture's aviz for cemeteries listed as historic monuments or containing monuments or archaeological sites on that list.
• Access ramps for people with disabilities, under Legea nr. 448/2006.

How you submit the notificare

• It is always filed before starting the works.
• It is filled in and filed by the holder of a principal real right over the property, or of a claim right.
• The notification form comes with a simplified-content technical execution project, prepared by a specialist technical team (architects with signing rights, construction engineers and other engineers, as needed) together with proof that the fees have been paid.
• It is filed in writing or digitally, with the competent town hall.
• The town hall automatically confirms receipt of a notificare filed digitally, or records the filing date for one filed in writing at its office.
• If it reaches the wrong town hall, that town hall forwards it to the competent authority on its own initiative and notifies you.
• From 26 August 2026 the forms approved by Ordinul 975/2026 apply, and they cover the notificare procedure too. We could not verify the order against the official source, so ask the town hall where you file which form it takes today.

Terms and tacit approval

• The town hall has 15 working days from receiving the notificare to respond.
• If it does not respond within this term, the notificare is considered tacitly approved.
• Instead of tacit approval, the town hall can: ask for technical clarifications or additional documents; ask for complementary documentation for avize and approvals, including through the Single Approval Commission (Comisia de acord unic); tell you the works actually need a building, demolition, regularisation or amendment permit; or reject the notificare, with reasons, if the proposed works breach the approved urban planning documentation or other legal rules.
• The clarifications, the redirect to a permit and the rejection each carry their own term of at most 15 working days; the request for complementary documentation for avize through the Single Approval Commission (Comisia de acord unic) has no separate term set by law.
• The notificare and the project are recorded in the town hall's log, and, through the designer, in the National Construction Register.
• Notified works stay valid for 3 years from when the above terms are reached.
• You can start the works 15 calendar days after the tacit-approval term is reached, or after you have fully met the conditions the town hall asked for.

Your liability

• The notificare stands as your own declaration, as the beneficiary, that the works meet the conditions to be carried out on notificare alone.
• The town hall is not liable for any disputes before the courts concerning the property, nor for any charges or restrictions on it, liability sits entirely with the beneficiary.
• Compliance with the applicable urban planning regulations and construction-quality technical rules is mandatory, and liability for breaching them falls on the beneficiary, the designers and the contractors.
• Execution must follow strictly the simplified-content technical execution project prepared by the specialist technical team.
• The notificare cannot be used where it would breach environmental impact assessment legislation or the special requirements of properties under SNAOPSN.

Execution and completion

• You can only start the works once the 15-calendar-day term has been reached, from the tacit approval or from fully meeting the conditions the town hall asked for.
• Notified works do not need technical verification for the fundamental quality requirements: liability for the project's correctness sits entirely with the design team.
• Exception: for the single-family home under art. 294(2)(a)(ii), whether on a standard design or an individual design, a geotechnical study and a topographic study are mandatory, to adapt the project to the site.
• You must display the investment identification panel in a visible place, from the start of the works.
• Reception at completion takes place between the contractor, the beneficiary and a town hall representative. A copy of the report is registered in the National Construction Register (the obligation falls to you, as the beneficiary) or, until the register is operational, sent physically or by email to I.S.C.
• Registration in the land book is made based on proof that the notificare was filed and that the register entry was verified.

The fee

For works under the simplified procedure, the fee charged by the town hall is half of the authorisation fee corresponding to the type of works (building, site works, amendment, regularisation or demolition, as applicable) calculated under the Fiscal Code (Codul urbanismului art. 313 para. 4).

The same rule applies whatever you notify: an annex, a loft conversion or a new fence.