The end of 2016 brought with itself important amendments and supplements to the legal framework concerning the construction and urbanism legislation, by the entering into force of the Emergency Ordinance no. 100/2016 (the "Ordinance"). 

The explanatory memorandum of the Ordinance justifies the necessity of its issuance based on an incomplete and uncorrelated existing legal framework with limitations in its implementation, which caused various problems in the national law and operational practices in the work of landscaping, urban planning and of construction execution authorizing.

Below we summarise the main changes brought by the Ordinance: (available only in .pdf format).

This article was written by Cornelia Postelnicu and Maria Ghinea.

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