In brief
- The Government is putting up a further 1,028.60 thousand lei, a little over a million, for the compensation payable along the expropriation corridor of the Sibiu-Făgăraș Motorway.
- The list of expropriated properties is being rewritten: hundreds of positions have their identification details and their sums changed, and more than 140 new positions enter the list, 134 of them in a single place.
- Buildings standing on land already taken over in 2022 are being expropriated as well, at six positions on the list. Their owners are only now entering the procedure.
Published: Official Gazette of Romania (Monitorul Oficial) no. 703 of 25 August 2026
In force from: 25 August 2026
Anyone who owns land on the route of the Sibiu-Făgăraș Motorway would do well to look up their position in the new list: hundreds of rows have been rewritten, and some plots are only now entering expropriation, four years after the first decision. Government Decision no. 630/2026, published in Official Gazette of Romania no. 703 of 25 August 2026, tops up the compensation and amends annex no. 2 to Government Decision no. 1.558/2022. This is the second correction on this corridor in recent months, after the additional expropriations at Avrig for the relocation of the utilities.
The additional sum is 1,028.60 thousand lei, that is 1,028,600 lei, and is allocated from the state budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, under the state budget law for 2026, Law no. 43/2026. The money goes to chapter 84.01 „Transport”, title 56, budget article 56.48, that is programmes financed from the European Regional Development Fund for the 2021-2027 financial framework.
The expropriating authority is the Romanian State, through the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, and the operations are carried out through the National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration.
What it changes in practice
The first effect is the money. The fair compensation is topped up by 1,028.60 thousand lei on top of the sums set in 2022.
The second effect is the wholesale updating of the list. Several hundred positions in annex no. 2, from position no. 1 up into the 5,700s, are amended so as to update the identification details and the individual compensation sums.
The third effect is the appearance of interleaved positions. New positions carrying an index are inserted after a number of existing ones, for example 22^1, 27^1 or 44^1, a sign that the properties have been redrawn cadastrally.
The fourth effect is the most striking in numerical terms. After position 1,104, 134 new positions are inserted, along with further new positions after 4,570, after 5,048, where six of them come in, and after 5,707.
The fifth effect concerns buildings. At six positions on the list, 351, 374, 579, 741, 5,179 and 5,186, new properties are inserted which represent buildings standing on land already expropriated by the 2022 decision.
The sixth effect is the actual launch of the expropriation for these new properties, both the plots in the positions that have been added and the buildings on land already taken over.
The seventh effect has to do with mergers of parcels. Some of the old positions drop out of the annex following the technical operation of merger, meaning that the land in question has been joined with other plots.
The eighth effect is the payment deadline. The individual sum is transferred by the Ministry of Transport into a treasury account opened in the name of the road company, within no more than 30 days of the approval of the request to open credit lines, and is held at the owners’ disposal.
The ninth effect is accountability. The ministry, through the road company, answers for the accuracy of the data in the annex and for the correctness of the documents on which the sums were based.
What has changed compared with the previous situation
The first change is one of amount. The 2022 decision had set the compensation for the whole corridor. Now more than a million lei is being added, a sign that the initial values did not cover the situation on the ground.
An owner who does not wait for the administration to correct itself can obtain the correction in court: eight properties in the commune of Fărcășești received a further 65,560 lei, after two cases won against the State.
The second change is one of identification. Updating the identification details at hundreds of positions means that cadastral numbers, areas or owners’ names have been corrected against the 2022 version, published in Official Gazette of Romania no. 1.267 and no. 1.267 bis of 29 December 2022.
The third change concerns the properties that were missing. The 134 positions added after position no. 1,104, together with the other additions, reveal land that lay inside the corridor but did not appear on the initial list.
The fourth change is the one that matters most to people. The buildings on the land expropriated in 2022 had not been included at the time. Now they are, at six positions, and the expropriation procedure is launched separately for them.
The fifth change is the disappearance of some positions from the list, through merger. The land itself does not disappear, but from now on it is identified under a different number.
What does not change is the framework. The procedure remains the one laid down in Law no. 255/2010 on expropriation for reasons of public utility, and the implementing rules are those approved by Government Decision no. 53/2011.
Advantages and disadvantages
What it improves
- Owners whose buildings were left out of the reckoning in 2022 are at last entering the compensation procedure.
- Corrected identification details reduce the risk of the compensation being transferred against the wrong position.
- The money is actually allocated through the ministry’s budget, with the budget chapter and article spelled out, not merely promised.
- The deadline for transferring the sums is written into the decision, 30 days from the approval of the request to open credit lines.
- The works are moving forward, and the corrections to the list are a sign that the field surveys have been completed on the sections concerned.
What remains a problem
- More than 140 properties are entering expropriation only now, almost four years after the initial decision.
- The decision does not explain why the initial sum was insufficient, nor how the additional figure was arrived at.
- Owners have to search the annex themselves, a table running to almost 50 pages, in order to find out whether their position has changed.
- The merger of positions makes tracking difficult: a plot may no longer appear under the number its owner knows.
- The 30-day deadline runs from the approval of the request to open credit lines, a moment the owner has no way of learning from the decision itself.
- The additional sum, a little over a million lei spread across hundreds of positions, points to small adjustments for each individual owner.
Practical advice
- Open the official edition in PDF format, attached to this article, and look for your position number from the annex to the 2022 decision. If it appears among those amended, both the details and the sum have changed.
- If you own a building on land expropriated in 2022, check positions 351, 374, 579, 741, 5,179 and 5,186. That is where buildings have been added.
- If you can no longer find your position, check the list of those removed through merger. Your land may now be included in another position.
- Compare the area and the cadastral number in the new annex with those in your title deeds. The identification details have been updated.
- Contact the National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration for information about the actual payment. It is the body that opens the treasury account through which the transfer is made.
- If you disagree with the sum, the procedure for challenging it is the one in Law no. 255/2010. The time limits run from the communication of the decision establishing the compensation, not from the publication of this decision.
- Keep proof of any correspondence with the expropriating authority. The ministry answers for the accuracy of the data in the annex, so an error reported in writing leaves a trace.
Frequently asked questions
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Errors and inconsistencies in the published text
- Article II point 2, at position 1,127: index 8 is missing, and index 9 appears twice. The text announces that „după poziția nr. crt. 1127 se introduc 23 de noi poziții”, that 23 new positions are inserted after position no. 1127, and then lists them one by one. The enumeration runs from 1127^1 to 1127^7, skips 1127^8, writes 1127^9 twice in a row, and then carries on normally from 1127^10 to 1127^23. The total announced, 23, matches the number of items printed, precisely because the duplicate covers the gap. The result is that position 1127^8 is not inserted by the operative part, although in the table in the annex the series cannot have a hole in it, while 1127^9 is inserted twice over. The gap shows up by counting the indices in the same paragraph, with no other documents.
Editorial analysis
Called a decision topping up the compensation, this is in fact a rewriting of a quarter of the expropriation list. Counting through the operative part gives 1,037 positions with updated identification details and sums, 234 new positions arising from subdivision at 68 places in the table, 142 completely new positions, 134 of them at a single point, after position no. 1,104, and 169 positions that disappear through merger. Almost 1,600 rows change in an annex that runs past 5,700 positions. The act does what needed doing, that is, it brings the list into line with what the measurements on the ground found, and it brings into the procedure the buildings standing on the land taken in 2022, eight buildings at six positions. For their owners, this is the decision from which everything starts.
The proportion between the operation and the money stays hard to explain from the text, though. The total additional sum is 1,028.60 thousand lei, that is 1,028,600 lei. Even if the whole of it went exclusively to the 142 newly inserted positions, that would come to about 7,200 lei per position, and it has at the same time to cover the eight buildings and the adjustments at 1,037 positions. Either the plots are very small, or the individual values are still being worked out from the valuation report that underpinned the 2022 decision. The decision does not say what date the valuation refers to, and for a corridor that has been under expropriation for almost four years that is the question that matters, not the total.
The biggest practical problem, however, is not the sum but the identity of the rows. The act changes the numbering of a table without publishing any concordance between old and new. The 169 positions removed through merger go into other positions, but nowhere is it said which ones; the 234 positions arising from subdivision are carved out of existing positions, without showing which parcel became what. Someone who received a notification in 2023 for position 620, one of those now removed, has no way of learning from the Official Gazette of Romania which row he is on today. The document is written for the cadastral workflow of the expropriating authority, not for the person being dispossessed.
Then there is the interval about which the act says nothing at all. Article III starts the expropriation procedure for the buildings standing on land already expropriated by the 2022 decision, at positions 351, 374, 579, 741, 5,179 and 5,186. That means that from December 2022 to August 2026, on land that had passed into the ownership of the state, there stood buildings whose owners were neither compensated nor taken out of the procedure. The decision settles the position from now on, but says nothing about the almost four years during which it lasted.
What should be changed
- A concordance table between the old numbering and the new one. The annex ought to show, for every position removed through merger, the position it was absorbed into, and for every new position arising from subdivision, the position it came from. In practice, someone notified at position 620 would find himself in the current list on his own, without depending on an answer from the road company.
- The valuation date, written into the decision. The act ought to state the moment to which the updated individual sums refer. In practice, the owner would know whether the figure against his name reflects the market of 2022 or that of 2026, and could decide, knowing what he is doing, whether to challenge it.
- A search by name and cadastral number on the website of the expropriating authority. The National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration could publish the consolidated list for the corridor, updated at every decision. In practice, nobody would any longer have to work through a 48 page table in order to find out whether his position has changed.
- A deadline for individual notification of the newly inserted positions. The decision could fix the period within which the expropriating authority writes to the owners of the 142 new positions and to those of the eight buildings. In practice, anyone who does not read the Official Gazette of Romania would still learn that his property has entered the corridor.
- A rule for the period between the taking of the land and the expropriation of the building. The act ought to say what happens about the interval in which the building stood on land already expropriated. In practice, the owner would know whether anything is due to him for those years or whether the procedure starts from scratch in August 2026.
Original text of the legal act
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Official Gazette of Romania no. 703 of 25 August 2026 64 pages PDF, 486 KB the act starts on page 2
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