The State redoes its inventory records: 64 million lei in four decisions and two scrappings

The four decisions carry out an accounting operation, and that is not a reproach: without periodic revaluation, the values in the State inventory stay figures from another economic era. What is interesting is where the Government stands in the chain. The data in the annexes show that the values had already been recorded in the financial and accounting records on 30 May 2025 for the land improvements in Sălaj, on 9 October 2025 for the properties of the „Porolissum” Inspectorate, on 31 October 2025 for the building in Brăila, on 19 January 2026 for the Dealul Spirii barracks and on 8 June 2026 for the three offices in Vaslui County. The decision does not carry out the revaluation, it confirms it, between two and a half and almost fifteen months after the accounts had already booked it. And the confirmation is given without the annexes carrying either the previous value or the date of the valuation report, that is, without the elements that would make any check possible. What is left is a registration act that arrives last.

The second part of these decisions, the scrapping, shows an inconsistency that becomes visible when the two acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are placed side by side. Decision no. 659/2026 has an article of its own, Article 3, under which the sums resulting from disposal, after the related costs are deducted, are paid into the State budget. Decision no. 658/2026 has no such article, although it removes from the public domain a concrete platform of 1,385.55 square metres, 15 centimetres thick, a prefabricated fence of 91.55 linear metres and a vehicle ramp of 35.82 cubic metres, which is exactly the kind of structure that yields recoverable material. Government Ordinance no. 112/2000, invoked in the preamble of both acts, is called precisely „pentru reglementarea procesului de scoatere din funcțiune, casare și valorificare”, on regulating the process of removal from service, scrapping and disposal. In one act, disposal has an addressee; in the other, it does not appear at all.

The arithmetic behind the Bucharest scrapping is also worth a look. Building C3, 243 square metres, is transferred to the private domain with an inventory value of 132,720 lei, that is 546 lei per square metre, the remaining book value of a building from 1975. Demolishing it yields rubble, scrap iron and possibly recoverable brick, and Article 3 promises the State budget whatever is left „după deducerea cheltuielilor aferente”, after the related costs are deducted. The act does not say what the demolition costs, so there is no way of knowing whether the outcome of the operation is revenue or expenditure. For a building of 243 square metres in the centre of Bucharest, the second is the more likely, and the decision provides nothing for the case where the costs exceed the receipts.

Finally, the four annexes published on the same day use two opposite standards for the same column. The decisions of the Ministry of Labour give the full address: 19 Calea Călărașilor in Brăila, 5 Spiru Haret Street in Vaslui, 8 Epureanu Boulevard in Bârlad, Alexandru Ioan Cuza Street, block H5, staircase A, ground floor, in Huși. The decisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs put, in the same field, only „România, județul Sălaj” and „România, municipiul București”, Romania, Sălaj County and Romania, the municipality of Bucharest, while the field „Vecinătăți”, neighbouring properties, is filled in with a dash. Except that this discretion cancels itself out a few lines below: annex no. 2 of each of them gives the land register number, 52529 Cehu Silvaniei and 233733, which is precisely the identifier with which anybody can locate the property in the public register. The result is not protection but an inventory in which the same information is concealed and revealed in the same act.

What should be changed

• The previous value, alongside the new one. The annexes ought to carry a column with the inventory value before the revaluation and the date of the valuation report. In practice, it would be visible whether a barracks reached 27,923,646.34 lei through an increase of a few per cent or one of several times over, and who signed the valuation.
• A maximum period between the accounting entry and the decision. Where the revalued figure is already in the records, the Government decision ought to follow within a fixed period, 90 days for instance. In practice, the centralised State inventory would no longer trail up to fifteen months behind the accounts of the institutions that make it up.
• The disposal clause, made compulsory for the scrapping of land improvements as well. Decision no. 658/2026 ought to contain, like Decision no. 659/2026, a provision on what becomes of the material recovered from the 1,385.55 square metres of concrete platform and the 91.55 linear metres of fence. In practice, that material would have an addressee set down in writing, rather than one decided on site.
• The estimated cost of demolition, entered in the annex. Alongside the inventory value of the structure being scrapped there ought to be an estimate of the costs of removal from service. In practice, the words „după deducerea cheltuielilor aferente” in Article 3 of Decision no. 659/2026 could then be read as a result rather than as a promise.
• A single standard for the „Adresa” column. Either every property in the inventory gets the full address, or, if there is a security reason for those of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, that reason applies to the land register number in the annex next to it as well. In practice, the present situation would disappear, in which the act hides the street and publishes, two lines further down, the number by which the property is found in the land publicity register.