vignette
What must I do so that vehicles exempted from the payment of the vignette, pursuant to the legal provisions in force, are registered in the database as exempt?
According to LAW no. 226 of 14 July 2023 on the application of road tariffs on the national road network in Romania
Art. 9.
(1) The following vehicles are exempted from the payment of the vignette:
a) owned or, as the case may be, used under a legal right, according to the data entered in the vehicle
registration certificate, by:
(i) units of the Ministry of National Defence;
(ii) units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
(iii) units of the Romanian Intelligence Service;
(iv) units of the Foreign Intelligence Service;
(v) units of the Protection and Guard Service;
(vi) units of the Special Telecommunications Service;
(vii) the National Administration of Penitentiaries and its subordinate units;
(viii) community public services for emergency situations, regulated by Government Ordinance no.
88/2001 on the establishment, organization, and operation of community public services for emergency
situations, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 363/2002, with subsequent
amendments and additions;
(ix) the National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration - S.A. and its subunits;
(x) the State Inspectorate for Road Transport Control;
(xi) the Romanian Red Cross National Society;
b) provided as being exempted under international agreements and treaties to which Romania is a
party;
c) used in local public passenger transport by regular services;
d) authorized to perform school transport;
e) ambulance-type vehicles owned by public authorities/entities.
(2) The vehicles provided for in paragraph (1) point a) items (viii)–(xi) and points b)–e) are exempted
from the payment of the user charge only if they are registered, as exempted vehicles, in the database
of the SER.
(3) The vehicles provided for in paragraph (1) point a) items (i)–(vii) are exempted from the payment of
the vignette only if they are marked, by the Directorate-General for Driving Licences and Vehicle
Registration, in the National Register of Driving Licences and Registered Vehicles, as exempted from the
payment of the user charge.
(4) The obligation to request the marking/removal of vehicles in/from the National Register of Driving
Licences and Registered Vehicles and, as the case may be, the registration/removal in/from the
database of the SER rests with their holders.
(5) The countervalue of the roviniete issued, on the basis of the request submitted to CNAIR by the
Ministry of Internal Affairs, through the Department for Emergency Situations, for vehicles carrying out
transport operations within civil protection missions or humanitarian missions on the territory of
Romania or transiting Romania for this purpose, shall be reimbursed biannually to CNAIR by the Ministry
of Transport and Infrastructure, from the amounts allocated from the state budget, provided with this
destination in the annual budget laws, on the basis of the statement submitted by the 15th day of the
first month of each semester, for the preceding semester.
(6) The request provided for in paragraph (5) shall include the list of vehicle registration numbers,
accompanied by copies of their registration certificates, as well as the period of execution of the
transport operations on Romanian territory.