Romania rovinieta 2026: prices & rules

The tariff depends on three things:

Goods vehicles above 3.5 t do not need a rovinieta: they pay distance-based TollRo instead.

CNAIR, the national road company, lists these channels:

Check the plate, the country of registration and the EURO class against the registration document before paying, and keep the electronic confirmation. A rovinieta can be paid up to 30 days before its start date. CNAIR does not accept bank transfers to its accounts as payment for a rovinieta.

Romania checks compliance with ANPR cameras on national roads and with roadside checks by the traffic police, by ISCTR road transport inspectors and, at border crossings, by CNAIR staff and the border police.

On 1 October 2026, Law 226/2023 replaced the former regime set by Government Ordinance 15/2002. The rovinieta now applies to passenger vehicles and to goods vehicles with a maximum authorised mass of up to 3.5 t. For goods vehicles above 3.5 t, TollRo is a charge calculated by distance, road category, maximum authorised mass and EURO class; it is not a time-based rovinieta.

The law provides five durations: 1 day, 10 days, 30 days, 60 days and 12 months. The amounts are indexed every year to consumer prices, and the updated tariffs apply from 1 January.

Roviniete bought before 1 October 2026 for passenger vehicles and for goods vehicles up to 3.5 t remain valid until they expire; CNAIR transferred them to the new system without any action by the owner.

Roads requiring the rovinieta

The Romanian rovinieta applies to all national roads (drumuri naționale, DN prefix), except the sections inside a municipiu — Romania's legal category for its larger cities — between its entry and exit signs. This is broader than in most other vignette countries: the obligation covers not only motorways and expressways but also ordinary national roads linking cities, county seats and border crossings — any road with a DN number.

A driver on DN1 (Bucharest–Ploiești–Brașov), DN7 (Pitești–Sibiu–Deva) or DN2 (Bucharest–Suceava) therefore needs a valid rovinieta, even though large parts of these routes are ordinary roads, not motorways. The exemption is narrower than most drivers assume: only the stretch inside a municipiu is free. Driving through a small town or a village on a DN road does not exempt you.

Motorways such as the A1, A2, A3 and A10 are part of the national road network and fall under the same rovinieta — there is no separate motorway vignette.

Danube bridges: The separate Romanian tolls on the Fetești–Cernavodă bridges (A2) and the Giurgeni–Vadu Oii bridge ended on 1 October 2026 together with the old regime; a valid rovinieta now covers these crossings. On the bridges to Bulgaria (Giurgiu–Ruse and Calafat–Vidin), a crossing fee may still apply — check it with the bridge operator before you travel, because the rovinieta does not include it.

Free roads — no rovinieta needed

The following road categories do not require a rovinieta:

A driver who stays entirely on DJ and DC roads pays nothing. In practice, routes between major Romanian cities almost always use at least one DN section.

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