Methodology — Romania

Two engines, one shared input shape.

The Romania state-fee calculator encodes Ordonanța de urgență a Guvernului nr. 80/2013 privind taxele judiciare de timbru, in the consolidated form post Legea nr. 199/2025 (Monitorul Oficial 1106/28.11.2025) and Legea nr. 268/2024. Other Romanian state fees — the Tariful ONRC (Legea 26/1990), executor judecătoresc fees (Ordin MJ), the Tariful ANCPI, and notarial tariffs — are explicitly out of scope; the calculator returns a null outcome with a note pointing to the right statute for each.

The lawyer-fee side encodes Hotărârea UNBR nr. 230/2025 pct. 2.1.x, which replaced the previous UNBR guidance. The new guide’s amounts are reference valuesA tariff figure that is advisory, not mandatory — a guide to what a fee customarily is, which the lawyer and client remain free to depart from. Every number Tarifo shows is a reference value.Glossary →, not binding floorsA tariff floor a court could once not go below. Several EU jurisdictions abandoned binding minimums after CJEU rulings; where that has happened, the same figures now serve only as reference values.Glossary → — Romanian competition authorities and CCR Decizia 2025/07/01 have made it clear that minimum-fee tables are not enforceable as such. Tarifo presents them as references throughout the UI.

State court fees fall into three shapes.

Banded percentage of claim value

The dominant shape for monetary patrimonial claims under art. 3. Six bands run from max(8 % × V, 20 RON) at the bottom to a marginal 1 % above 250,000 RON, with no upper cap. Band edges are 500 / 5,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 / 250,000 RON. Reused at half rate for appeals and material cassation.

Flat amounts

The broad fallback. Eviction (100 RON), ordonanța președințială (20 RON), execution patrimonial (20 RON), divorce (200 RON either way), insolvency open (200 RON), administrative action (50 RON), administrative suspension (100 RON). The flats are deliberately small — the bulk of the cost sits with the executor or the lawyer.

Statutory exemptions

art. 29 OUG 80/2013 and art. 270 Codul muncii. Labour disputes, pension claims, social-protection cases, family child arrangements, guardianship, adoption and judicial interdiction are scutite de la plata taxei judiciare de timbru. The calculator returns amount = 0 with the exempting article cited.

Stage multipliers (art. 23 / art. 24)

Appeals (appeal) multiply by 0.5 with a 20 RON floor; procedural cassation (cassation_procedural) is a flat 100 RON; material cassation (cassation_material) multiplies art. 3 by 0.5 with a 100 RON floor. art. 28 propagates: an appeal of an exempt case is itself exempt.

State fees: TVA-exempt. Lawyer fees: optional 19 % toggle.

State court fees in Romania are TVA-exempt per Codul fiscal art. 5 alin. (3). The calculator displays them at face value with no TVA line and never applies the 19 % TVA toggle from the lawyer-fee side. Lawyer fees are TVA-applicable when the lawyer is TVA-registered; the result panel exposes that as a toggle on the lawyer-fee number only. Flipping it has no effect on the state-fee output.

A standard patrimonial claim, first instance.

Take a standard patrimonial claim with a claim value of 100,000 RON (civil_claim_patrimonial, first instance):

The same case at appeal applies art. 23 alin. (1) and yields max(0.5 × 3,105, 20) = 1,552.50 RON. At procedural cassation the result is the flat 100.00 RON from art. 24 alin. (1), regardless of the claim value.

Where the two engines disagree on purpose.

Romania has three intentional divergences between the state-fee engine and a naive carry-over from the lawyer-fee side:

A fourth class of divergence is categorical rather than numeric: every labour-conflict case (labour_*), every family child / guardianship / adoption / interdiction case, the preliminary administrative complaint, and pure extra-judicial work return amount = 0 because the relevant article exempts them outright. The calculator surfaces the exempting citation in the note. These are scope decisions, not bugs.