In brief
- Four decisions adopted on the same day move immovable assets belonging to the State: the forensic medicine laboratory in Iași, a plot of land for the police in Negrești, a building of the state reserves in Prahova County and a building of the pension house in Giurgiu.
- The values range from 12,000 lei, the worth of the land in Negrești, to 15,220,746 lei, the updated value of the laboratory in Iași.
- The annex to the decision on the land in Negrești gives neither the area, nor the land book number, nor the locality, even though the other three acts identify the asset down to the street number.
Published: Official Gazette of Romania (Monitorul Oficial) no. 708 and no. 709 of 26 August 2026
In force from: 26 August 2026
In a single day of the Official Gazette of Romania, the State rewrites its records for four immovable assets, and one of them enters the public domain without the act saying how large it is or where exactly it lies. Government Decisions no. 645, 646 and 660/2026, published in Official Gazette of Romania no. 708, and Government Decision no. 654/2026, published in Official Gazette of Romania no. 709, both of 26 August 2026, update inventory values, register new assets, grant free use of one building and merge two entries in the centralised inventory. A day earlier, in Official Gazette of Romania no. 703, there had also appeared the decision by which the collection of the sculptor Constantin Antonovici entered the assets of the State.
All four were adopted in Bucharest on 20 August 2026 and share the same procedural reflex: once published, the ministry concerned and the Ministry of Finance update the corresponding annex to Government Decision no. 1.705/2006, the act that holds the centralised inventory of assets in the public domain of the State.
The common legal basis is Article 108 of the Constitution and the Administrative Code, Government Emergency Ordinance no. 57/2019, to which Articles 867 and 874 of the Civil Code are added where relevant.
What it changes in practice
The first effect is the updating of the value of the forensic medicine laboratory in Iași. Decision no. 645/2026 sets, for entry MF 38142, held in the administration of the Iași Institute of Forensic Medicine, a body subordinated to the Ministry of Health, an inventory value of 15,220,746 lei, recorded as at 31 December 2024. The property has five blocks: the lecture theatre, two laboratory blocks, the mortuary and a transformer substation, with total floor areas of between 5 and 1,975 square metres.
The second effect is the transfer of a plot of land to the police in Negrești. Decision no. 646/2026 enters in the centralised inventory a plot valued at 12,000 lei, moved into the public domain of the State by Decision no. 16 of 26 February 2026 of the Local Council of the Town of Negrești, and transfers it into the administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, through the Vaslui County Police Inspectorate. The land is declared an asset for public use and of national public interest and is to serve as the headquarters of the Negrești Town Police.
The third effect is the grant of free use for the aviation arm of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Decision no. 660/2026 gives the General Aviation Inspectorate, for two years, the property with number MF 99169 in Prahova County, held in the administration of the National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues, Territorial Unit 440. The inventory value is 5,429,403.27 lei.
The fourth effect concerns who pays for the property granted for free use. The maintenance costs stay with the National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues, out of the own revenues of the activity set up under Government Decision no. 598/2014, and the guarding and protection of the asset also remain its responsibility, under Government Decision no. 1.380/2009.
The fifth effect is the list of obligations imposed on the holder of the free use. The General Aviation Inspectorate must use the asset in accordance with its designated purpose, must not transfer the right of use to anyone else, must return the asset free of encumbrances, must not alter it, must report any interference with the right of public ownership, must submit annual reports and must allow inspection. Failure to comply triggers Article 352 of the Administrative Code.
The sixth effect is the registration of a building for the pension house in Giurgiu. Decision no. 654/2026 enters in the centralised inventory a building at 18 Dorobanți Street in Giurgiu, with a built-up area of 275.20 square metres and a total floor area of 716.81 square metres, valued at 2,541,805.35 lei, in the administration of the Giurgiu County Pension House.
The seventh effect is the merger. The same decision joins entry MF 174363, which is the land underneath the building, with the entry for the newly registered building, under number MF 174363, because both assets are recorded in the same land book, CF 33719 Giurgiu. The result is a single entry of 2,603,196.99 lei, that is 2,541,805.35 lei for the building plus 61,391.64 lei for the land.
The eighth effect is the handover timetable. In Negrești and in Prahova County, the handover is carried out under a protocol, within 30 days of the decisions entering into force, that is by 25 September 2026. The National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues has, in addition, 30 days from the transfer report in which to enter the change in the secure system of the Ministry of Finance.
What has changed compared with the previous situation
The first change is an accounting one. The value of the laboratory in Iași is no longer the old one but the revalued figure, and the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance have to enter the change in Annex no. 15 to Government Decision no. 1.705/2006.
The second change concerns the owner and the administrator. The land in Negrești belonged to the town and passed into the public domain of the State by a local council decision, in February. From 26 August it is also in the centralised inventory, and its administration belongs to the Vaslui County Police Inspectorate. The update is made in Annex no. 1 to the same 2006 decision, the annex of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The third change concerns use, not ownership. The property in Prahova County remains in the public ownership of the State and in the administration of the state reserves. What changes is only who actually uses it, for two years, and on what terms.
The fourth change is one of record keeping. In Giurgiu, the building and the land appeared separately, even though they sit on the same land book. After the merger, the inventory has a single entry, with a single value.
What does not change is the legal regime of the assets. They all remain in the public domain of the State, and are therefore inalienable, immune from seizure and imprescriptible, whoever administers or uses them.
Nor does the responsibility for maintaining the property in Prahova County change. It stays with the administrator of the asset and does not pass to the holder of the free use.
Advantages and disadvantages
What it improves
- Three of the four acts identify the asset down to the land book, the area and the street number, so their subject matter can be verified.
- The merger in Giurgiu simplifies the records: a building and the land beneath it, on the same land book, become a single inventory entry.
- Updating the value of the laboratory in Iași brings the accounting records up to date, as at 31 December 2024.
- The free use in Prahova County is limited to two years and can be revoked, so it does not tie up the property in the long term.
- The obligations of the holder of the free use are listed point by point, with an express reference to the penalty in Article 352 of the Administrative Code.
- The handover deadlines are short and identical, 30 days, for both properties that change hands.
What remains a problem
- The annex to the decision on the land in Negrești gives no area, no land book, no locality and no street number.
- The annex to the decision on the building in Giurgiu gives the asset resulting from the merger a recording date earlier than that of its own components.
- For the property in Prahova County, maintenance and guarding stay with the administrator even though use passes to another institution, so cost and benefit part company.
- Point (f) of the beneficiary’s obligations is conditional, „în cazul în care beneficiar este o instituție de utilitate publică” (where the beneficiary is an institution of public utility), even though the beneficiary is a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so the text leaves room for argument as to whether the annual report is compulsory.
- The address of the property in Prahova County stops at county level, and identification rests solely on the number in the centralised inventory.
- None of the acts says what happens if the handover protocol is not concluded within the 30 days.
Practical advice
- If you work for an institution that receives or hands over an asset under these decisions, the deadline for the protocol is 30 days from 26 August 2026, that is by 25 September.
- If you follow the centralised inventory, note the annexes to Government Decision no. 1.705/2006 that are affected: Annex no. 15 for Health, Annex no. 1 for Internal Affairs and Annex no. 13 for Labour.
- If you need the exact identification of the land in Negrești, go to Decision no. 16 of 26 February 2026 of the Local Council of the Town of Negrești, the act that moved it into the public domain of the State. The Government decision does not repeat it.
- If you are checking the Giurgiu entry, use number MF 174363 and land book CF 33719 Giurgiu. After the merger, the building and the land appear under the same number.
- If you administer the property in Prahova County, bear in mind that the free use ends when the two years expire, when the right of public ownership ends, or through an act of revocation if the asset is not used in accordance with its designated purpose.
- If you keep the quantitative and value records at the National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues, the 30 days for entering the change in the secure system run from the transfer report, not from the publication of the decision.
- These acts create no obligations for individuals or companies. They concern relations between public institutions.
Frequently asked questions
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Errors and inconsistencies in the published text
- Government Decision no. 646/2026, the annex: the asset being entered into the public domain of the State is not identified. Article 1(1) states that the property has the „datele de identificare prevăzute în anexa care face parte integrantă din prezenta hotărâre” (identification data set out in the annex forming an integral part of this decision), but the annex gives neither the area of the land, nor the land book number, nor the locality or the street number. The technical description column holds a single word, „Teren” (land), the address is „România, județul Vaslui” (Romania, Vaslui County), the neighbouring plots are marked with a dash, and the columns „Nr. MF” (MF number) and „Denumirea” (name) contain the entries „Se va atribui de către MF.” (to be assigned by the Ministry of Finance) and „Se va atribui de către MAI.” (to be assigned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs) respectively. On the same day, the other three decisions identify their assets down to the land book, the built-up area and the street number. The consequence is not a formal one: the handover protocol has to be concluded within 30 days for an asset whose extent does not follow from the act, while Article 1(2) gives it a precise purpose, the headquarters of the Negrești Town Police, without saying where it is.
- Government Decision no. 654/2026, Annex no. 2: the asset resulting from the merger has a recording date earlier than its own components. Entry 1, the building, and entry 2, the land, both show the date 30.12.2024 under the heading „Data la care este înregistrat cu valoarea de inventar din col. 8 în evidența financiar-contabilă” (the date on which it is recorded, at the inventory value in column 8, in the financial and accounting records). Entry 3, „Bun rezultat în urma comasării” (asset resulting from the merger), shows 30.09.2024, three months earlier, even though its value, 2,603,196.99 lei, is exactly the sum of the two amounts recorded in December: 2,541,805.35 lei plus 61,391.64 lei. Article 3 requires the Ministry of Labour, Family, Youth and Social Solidarity and the Ministry of Finance to enter these data in Annex no. 13 to Government Decision no. 1.705/2006, so the contradictory date ends up in the centralised inventory of the State.
Editorial analysis
Decisions on public property are the acts nobody reads, and that is exactly why they are worth reading. They change no rights of citizens, but they show how the State keeps its books. The four of 26 August are a good sample: three of them are written with care, with land book, areas, neighbouring plots and up to date values, while the fourth describes the asset it transfers in a single word.
The difference cannot be explained by what is at stake. The land in Negrești is worth 12,000 lei, but the town police headquarters is to operate on it, and that is where case files, weapons and people end up, year after year. The fact that the act bringing it into the public domain of the State does not say how many square metres it has or where it lies means the check has to be made elsewhere, in the local council decision of February. That decision exists and is cited, so the information is not lost. But the centralised inventory of the State is built from the annexes of Government decisions, not from cross references.
The second observation concerns the property in Prahova County. The Administrative Code allows a grant of free use to institutions of public utility, and the General Aviation Inspectorate is a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so that condition is met. What is out of the ordinary is how the costs are split: the institution that uses the property for two years pays neither the maintenance nor the guarding, both of which stay with the National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues, out of its own revenues. That is a choice the Government is entitled to make, but it means one institution funds the running costs of another without the act saying why. The same section of obligations also contains a conditional formula, „în cazul în care beneficiar este o instituție de utilitate publică”, which in an act with a single beneficiary named in person has nothing left to make conditional.
The third observation is about the merger in Giurgiu, which is the best thought out part of the whole batch. A building and the land beneath it, recorded in the same land book but kept as two separate inventory entries, generate double work at every revaluation. Joining them is precisely the kind of housekeeping that ought to be done systematically rather than piece by piece. It is a pity that the very annex which enacts it carries a date that does not match the other two.
What should be changed
- Completing the annex to Government Decision no. 646/2026 with the area, the land book and the address of the land. Without them, the entry created in the centralised inventory cannot be verified against the act.
- Correcting the recording date of the asset resulting from the merger, in Annex no. 2 to Government Decision no. 654/2026. An entry cannot be recorded three months before the components it is made up of.
- A general rule barring the formula „se va atribui ulterior” (to be assigned later) from the columns that physically identify the asset. The number in the Ministry of Finance inventory can be assigned after publication; the area and the land book cannot.
- Stating, in acts granting free use, the reason why the costs stay with the administrator. Otherwise the transfer of cost between two public institutions is made without any written justification.
- Removing generic conditions from lists of obligations. When the beneficiary is named in the act, its obligations have no reason to depend on a hypothesis.
Original text of the legal act
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Official Gazette of Romania no. 708 and no. 709 of 26 August 2026 16 pages PDF, 108 KB the act starts on page 5
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