COVID and illegal construction fines are forgiven - The decision comes into effect, what are the procedures to be followed and who benefits
All fines imposed on citizens and businesses in the last 10 years that have not been executed will be forgiven. The government's decision has been published in the Official Gazette and has entered into legal force.
Referring to the decision, it specifically concerns administrative measures not executed by January 15, 2025, which were imposed from January 1, 2015 to November 30, 2024 by local territorial protection inspectorates such as the National Inspectorate of Territorial Protection; National Food Authority; State Health Inspectorate; State Police and Municipal Police.
The decision in question deletes the administrative measures imposed on those citizens and businesses that have carried out construction or interventions without permission or prior notice, in buildings for residential purposes; facilities where activities of production, storage, processing, preservation and trade of agricultural and livestock products are carried out; facilities that serve to keep work tools and agricultural and livestock inputs. For those whose object of activity is the production, processing, preservation and trade of agricultural and livestock products in rural areas.
Fines will also be waived for citizens and businesses that have not implemented the rules established for managing the COVID-19 situation during the pandemic period.
The National Inspectorate of Territorial Protection; the National Food Authority; the State Health Inspectorate; the State Police and the Municipal Police. within 30 days from the entry into force of this decision, prepare the list of individuals or natural or legal persons against whom fines have been imposed, which result unexecuted and repealed by law 127/2024.
Any individual or natural or legal person who claims that an administrative measure imposed on him or her and repealed by the 2024 law has not been removed/deleted from the system, shall submit a request, respectively, to the responsible structures that imposed this measure.
The process of removal/deletion from the list of debtor entities, according to this decision, is completed within 60 days from its entry into force.
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