Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

                    resources and amending
                    and supplementing certain
                    legislative acts, published
                    in the Official Journal No.
                    1160 on 15 December
                    2025.
         4          Copy of Ministerial Order,    The Ministerial Order sets out the unit charge
                    including its Annex, No.      (RON/km) for the distance-based charging
                    1925/2025 approving the       system established by Law No. 226/2023.
                    categories of vehicles and
                    the level of the unit
                    charge, published in the

                    Official Journal No. 940 on
                    10 October 2025.
         5          Copy of Ordinance No.         The Ordinance extends, among other, the
                    14/2025 for the extension     operationalisation of the distance-based
                    of time limits provided for   charging system established by Law No.
                    by Law No. 226/2023 on        226/2023 from 1 January 2026 to 1 July 2026.
                    the application of road
                    charges on the Romanian
                    network of national roads,
                    published in the Official
                    Journal No. 784 on 22
                    August 2026.

         6          Copy of Law No. 14/2026       The legal act converts into Law Ordinance No.
                    on the approval of            14/2025 (Evidence No. 5).
                    Government        Ordinance
                    No. 14/2025, published in
                    the Official Journal No. 27
                    on 15 January 2026.

3. Analysis:

The justification and substantiating evidence provided by the Romanian authorities cover all constitutive elements of the milestone.

  i.    Entry into force of the legal act(s) for the implementation of a new distance-based
        charging system for heavy duty vehicles (trucks) linked to air pollution (…). Legal act(s) for
        the implementation of a new distance-based charging system for heavy duty vehicles
        (trucks), which links charges to air pollution production

Law No. 226/2023 on the enforcement of road charges on the national road network in Romania (Lege privind aplicarea unor tarife rutiere pe rețeaua de drumuri naționale din România, hereinafter referred to as “Law 1”, (Evidence No. 2) was published in the Official Journal No. 659 on 18 July 2023, and entered into force three days after publication, in accordance with Article 78 of the Romanian Constitution, as Law 1 does not contain a specific entry into force date.

Article 12(3) and (4) of Law 1 establishes specific levels of distance-based charges and criteria for charging heavy duty vehicles for the carriage of goods, namely trucks (the charging system is called

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