In brief
- Two government decisions published on the same day update the value of property in the State’s public domain, on the same legal basis and by the same procedure.
- One publishes everything: the address, the areas down to the decimal, the land book number and the inventory value of a single building in Giurgiu, 1,974,297 lei.
- The other covers property in six counties and in Bucharest, but all four annexes are classified and are not published.
Published: Official Gazette of Romania (Monitorul Oficial) no. 713 of 27 August 2026
Adopted: 20 August 2026
A building in Giurgiu is worth 1,974,297 lei, has a built area of 222.8 square metres and an undivided share of the common parts of 24.206 square metres. About the Army’s property in six counties and in Bucharest, published on the same day and on the same legal basis, all you learn is that two of the sites are called 953 and 2981. Government Decisions no. 653 and no. 657 of 20 August 2026, both published in Official Gazette of Romania no. 713 of 27 August 2026, update the inventory values in the centralised inventory of the assets in the State’s public domain, the same register for which institutions were recently given a 90-day deadline to enter their buildings in the records.
Both rest on Articles 2^1 and 2^2 of Government Ordinance no. 81/2003 on the revaluation and depreciation of the fixed assets held by public institutions, on Article 108 of the Constitution and on Article 288 paragraph (1) of the Administrative Code. The difference between them is not one of procedure, but of how much is allowed to be seen.
What it changes in practice
Decision no. 653/2026 updates the inventory value of a single asset, a building administered by the Giurgiu Territorial Labour Inspectorate. The published annex contains everything there is to know about it: the inventory number in the Ministry of Finance records, 102099, the classification code 8.29.08, a built area of 222.8 square metres, a usable floor area of 463.5 square metres, an undivided share of the common parts of 24.206 square metres, a height regime of two levels, ground floor plus attic, a land share of 70.204 square metres, land book number 30118-C1-U48 Giurgiu and the address, Bulevardul Independenței, block 111, entrance C.
The inventory value resulting from the revaluation is 1,974,297 lei, recorded in the financial and accounting records with the date 31 December 2025. The holder of the right of administration is the Giurgiu Territorial Labour Inspectorate, unique identification code 5026672, and the principal authorising officer is the Ministry of Labour, Family, Youth and Social Solidarity, code 4266669. The ministry, together with the Ministry of Finance, will make the change in Annex no. 13 to Government Decision no. 1.705/2006, the one that approves the centralised inventory.
Decision no. 657/2026 does the same for property administered by the Ministry of National Defence, located in the counties of Buzău, Brașov, Bihor, Prahova, Covasna and Constanța and in the municipality of Bucharest. It has four operative articles, each with its own annex and its own reason.
Article 1 approves the change in the values of a number of properties following revaluation. Article 2 concerns property 953, where the value changes as a result of the revaluation and of the commissioning of military investment projects. Article 3 concerns property 2981, where a land area shortfall was also found, after the cadastral works were completed and the entry was made in the land book. Article 4 approves changes resulting solely from the commissioning of military investment projects.
The four annexes that contain the actual data are not published, being classified under the law. The footnote is the only mention of them. The changes are made in Annex no. 4 to the same Government Decision no. 1.705/2006.
What has changed compared with the previous situation
In law, nothing new. Both decisions apply a procedure that has been in place since 2003: the fixed assets of public institutions are revalued periodically, and the result is entered in the centralised inventory by a government decision. Revaluation sells nothing, buys nothing and transfers nothing; it only changes the figure in the records.
What does change is the book value of certain State assets and, in one case, the area. At property 2981, the cadastral survey showed that the land is smaller than the records said. It is the only piece of substance the reader can take from the Defence decision, and it comes without figures: there is no telling how much land is missing, where, or what it was worth.
The second thing to note is the reference date. The value of the Giurgiu building is recorded as at 31 December 2025, so the revaluation reflects the position of eight months ago, published only now.
The third is the signatures. Decision no. 653/2026 carries three countersignatures, and two of them do not come from the holders of the offices: an interim deputy prime minister and, for the labour minister, also interim, a state secretary. Only the finance minister signs in his own right. A two-article act thus passes through two signatures that are either interim or given by delegation, which says something about how routine the operation is.
Advantages and disadvantages
What it improves
- The centralised inventory of State assets moves closer to real values, which matters for the accounting reports of public institutions.
- For the Giurgiu building, full publication lets anyone check the figure: area, land book, address, holder of the right of administration, tax code.
- The finding of a land area shortfall at property 2981 shows that cadastral works really do correct the records rather than merely confirm them.
- Both decisions expressly name the annex to Government Decision no. 1.705/2006 that is being amended, so the paper trail stays traceable.
What remains a problem
- All four annexes to the Defence decision are classified, so there is no way to know how many properties are involved, what they are worth or how much has changed.
- The classification covers the aggregate financial figure as well, not only the locations, even though a total per decision would identify no military site.
- The Giurgiu value is recorded as at 31 December 2025 and published in August 2026, so the public records stay behind the accounting ones.
- Neither decision states what the previous value was, so there is no way to calculate how much anything has gone up or down.
Practical advice
- If you follow the assets of a public institution, look for the inventory number in the Ministry of Finance records, not the address. The number, here 102099, stays the same from one decision to the next and allows comparison over time.
- For the previous value of an asset, go to the decisions listed in the legal basis column, here Government Decision no. 427/1996, no. 58/2015 and no. 1.081/2025.
- Do not confuse revaluation with a sale or a transfer. A decision that updates an inventory value does not change the owner and does not take the asset out of the public domain.
- If you are interested in a Ministry of National Defence property, the published decisions will not help you: the data sits in classified annexes. What is left is a request for information of public interest, with the answer subject to the rules on classified information.
- Check the date in the accounting entry column, not the date of publication. They can be eight months apart, as they are here.
Frequently asked questions
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Which property is updated by Decision no. 653/2026?
Why are the annexes to the Defence decision not published?
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When does it apply from?
Editorial analysis
The two decisions are worth reading together, because they do the same thing and look completely different. The same 2003 ordinance, the same article of the Constitution, the same article of the Administrative Code, the same day of adoption and the same issue of the Gazette. At the end of the procedure, in one case the reader learns the undivided share of the common parts of a block entrance in Giurgiu, to three decimal places, and in the other does not even learn how many properties are at stake.
The asymmetry is not, in itself, an abuse. Military locations are information that states protect, and classifying the annexes that carry identification data has an obvious justification. The question is a different one: why the classification covers the aggregate figure too. A decision saying „the inventory value of 14 properties is amended, for a total of X lei” would point to no site, no coordinates and no perimeter. It would say only how much State property goes through this operation, which is budget information, not military information.
The second point is the information that escapes the classification. Article 3 states, in the published text, that a land area shortfall was found at property 2981 after the cadastral survey. This is exactly the kind of finding that deserves a public explanation, because it means the State’s records have been wrong until now. The act mentions it and stops there. The reader is left with a confirmed error and no sense of its size.
The third is the time lag. The value of the Giurgiu building is recorded in the accounts as at 31 December 2025 and becomes public on 27 August 2026. Eight months in which the published records and the real ones said different things about the same asset. For a building worth two million lei the difference is theoretical; across hundreds of such decisions, taken together, it is a picture of State property that stays permanently a year behind.
What should be changed
- Publishing the totals for acts with classified annexes. The number of properties and the aggregate value identify nothing military, but they tell the public how much State property is being revalued.
- Stating the previous value. One extra column, with the value before the revaluation, would turn an isolated number into verifiable information.
- A deadline between the accounting entry and publication. Eight months of lag drain the idea of a public inventory of State assets of any meaning.
Original text of the legal act
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The full text, as published in the Official Gazette of Romania
Official Gazette of Romania no. 713 of 27 August 2026 16 pages PDF, 117 KB the act starts on page 5
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