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Every Consolidated Romanian Statute You Can Read Says On Its Own Face That It Is Not Official - and Tells You the Day It Stops Being Current
Romania publishes its law in Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, and that is the only text with legal force. Everything a reader can actually open is a consolidation, and Romanian consolidations are unusually honest about what they are. The consolidated text of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 that the immigration authority itself publishes prints, above the first article, that the content of this act belongs exclusively to S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. It then prints something more useful still: a window. The copy read for these records states that it is valid from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026 - a four-day window that closed more than five months before it was read, because an amendment took effect on 1 May 2026 and this file was never replaced. The consolidation of Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on the same site carries a window that closed on 14 March 2024. The tax administration says the same thing in its own words about the Fiscal Code: the text is updated by electronic means and is not a republication, and it names the last amending law rather than a date to which anything was swept. A Romanian text that looks current is making two separate claims, and the smaller print tells you which one has expired.
Topics it changes
- Visiting as a tourist
- Residency through work
- Residency on passive income
- Residency under a regional treaty
- When you become a tax resident
- Becoming a citizen
What it requires
- Read the window at the head of any Romanian consolidated text before relying on it
- Treat a consolidation as information, not as the law: the official text is the Monitorul Oficial issue
- Expect the gazette issue number and date to be printed beside every amendment, which is what makes the official text findable
At a glance
- The official text
- Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I
Every amendment annotation in these consolidations cites the gazette issue and date, which is how the official text is identified.
- What the consolidation says it is
- Not a document of an official character, intended for the information of users
Printed at the head of the consolidated Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 published by the Inspectorate General for Immigration.
- Who makes it
- S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ, a company
Named in the same disclaimer. The same engine is behind the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal.
- The window on the immigration Ordinance
- 27 April 2026 to 30 April 2026
Printed on the file read for these records. It was read on 10 October 2026, more than five months after the window closed.
- The window on the free movement Ordinance
- 8 March 2024 to 14 March 2024
Printed on the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 file the same authority publishes.
- What the tax administration says
- The text is updated by electronic means and is not a republication
Printed at the head of the Fiscal Code edition on static.anaf.ro, which names its last update as Law 170/2026 rather than a sweep date.
What the law says
«Conţinutul acestui act aparţine exclusiv S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ şi nu este un document cu caracter oficial, fiind destinat informării utilizatorilor.»Our translation - not official
The content of this act belongs exclusively to S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users.
The disclaimer the publisher of the consolidation prints above the statute.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source
«Formă consolidată valabilă la data 30-04-2026 Prezenta formă consolidată este valabilă începând cu data de 27-04-2026 până la data de 30-04-2026»Our translation - not official
Consolidated form valid at the date 30-04-2026. This consolidated form is valid from the date 27-04-2026 until the date 30-04-2026.
A window with an end date. A later consolidation exists; the file the immigration authority serves is the one that ends here.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source
«Formă consolidată valabilă la data 14-03-2024 Prezenta formă consolidată este valabilă începând cu data de 08-03-2024 până la data de 14-03-2024»Our translation - not official
Consolidated form valid at the date 14-03-2024. This consolidated form is valid from the date 08-03-2024 until the date 14-03-2024.
Known to be out of date. The consolidation states its own validity as ending on 14 March 2024, so a later version exists and was not read. Anything the Ordinance says about Schengen signalling or about the Union residence card may have moved since.
The same shape on the free movement Ordinance, and the window closed two and a half years before it was read.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source
«Textul este actualizat prin mijloace informatice și nu reprezintă o republicare.»Our translation - not official
The text is updated by electronic means and does not constitute a republication.
The tax administration's own statement about its own edition.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Romania's tax administration. It publishes, on static.anaf.ro, an annotated edition of Law 227/2015 - the Fiscal Code - with the implementing methodological norms approved by Government Decision 1/2016 interleaved article by article, and names at the head of the page the last amending Act incorporated into each. The address has carried the year 2023 in its filename since that year and is updated in place, so the filename is not a version marker. It is the only reachable consolidated text of the Fiscal Code: the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal, which is the publisher of record for consolidations, answers nothing from outside Romania.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The page states what it is not: Textul este actualizat prin mijloace informatice şi nu reprezintă o republicare - the text is updated by electronic means and does not constitute a republication. It names the last amendment incorporated, not a date to which the text was swept, so it carries no consolidation cut-off in the sense this site records one, and no citation taken from it should be given a consolidatedAsOf. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial. It is authoritative about the Fiscal Code and about tax administration and about nothing else: immigration status, health insurance entitlement and social security coordination are decided by other instruments even where the Fiscal Code refers to them. The methodological norms printed beside each article are the Government's reading of the Code, not the Code, and the edition does not visually separate them in the text we extract.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
«Legea nr. 227/2015 privind Codul fiscal ultima actualizare: LEGEA nr. 170/2026»Our translation - not official
Law no. 227/2015 on the Fiscal Code, last update: LAW no. 170/2026
The last amendment incorporated, which is not a cut-off date: it says what was put in, not what the text was checked against.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Romania's tax administration. It publishes, on static.anaf.ro, an annotated edition of Law 227/2015 - the Fiscal Code - with the implementing methodological norms approved by Government Decision 1/2016 interleaved article by article, and names at the head of the page the last amending Act incorporated into each. The address has carried the year 2023 in its filename since that year and is updated in place, so the filename is not a version marker. It is the only reachable consolidated text of the Fiscal Code: the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal, which is the publisher of record for consolidations, answers nothing from outside Romania.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The page states what it is not: Textul este actualizat prin mijloace informatice şi nu reprezintă o republicare - the text is updated by electronic means and does not constitute a republication. It names the last amendment incorporated, not a date to which the text was swept, so it carries no consolidation cut-off in the sense this site records one, and no citation taken from it should be given a consolidatedAsOf. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial. It is authoritative about the Fiscal Code and about tax administration and about nothing else: immigration status, health insurance entitlement and social security coordination are decided by other instruments even where the Fiscal Code refers to them. The methodological norms printed beside each article are the Government's reading of the Code, not the Code, and the edition does not visually separate them in the text we extract.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
Practical notes
This is the reason every Romanian citation on this site carries a consolidation date, and why the free movement citations also carry a consolidation gap. The dates are the publisher's own words, not our inference from a file date.
The Ministry of Justice's legislative portal, legislatie.just.ro, is the publisher of consolidated texts and could not be reached from here by any route. Two records on this country rest on its pages as captured by the Internet Archive, and two topics are unanswered because no capture served the text.