Romania: New reporting requirements for international shipment of goods

Government Emergency Ordinance 115/2023—published in the Official Journal of Romania No 1139 of 15 December 2023—introduces a new requirement for certain categories of taxpayers to report all international shipments of goods. (The requirement to report shipments of goods with a high tax risk has already existed since 1 July 2022.)

The following taxpayers will be required to report (obtain UIT code for) goods in addition to those considered as having a high risk:

• The importer mentioned on the customs import declaration for imports
• The recipient in Romania, in the case of intra-Community acquisitions of goods
• The exporter mentioned on the customs import declaration for exports
• The supplier in Romania, in the case of intra-Community supplies of goods
• The warehouse keeper, in the case of goods subject to intra-Community transactions in transit, both for goods unloaded on Romanian territory for storage or for the formation of a new consignment of one or more consignments of goods, and for goods loaded after storage or after the formation of a new consignment in Romania of one or more consignments of goods

The legislation also introduces a new requirement for transport operators to confirm the transfer of the current positioning data of the transport vehicle throughout the journey of the goods being monitored by the RO e-Transport System. Consequently, the road transport operator is required to equip transport vehicles with telecommunication terminal devices using satellite positioning and data transmission technologies.

The provisions are applicable from 1 January 2024.

Read a January 2024 report [PDF 186 KB] prepared by the KPMG member firm in Romania