Romania Senate committee backs TollRo flat fee cut to 500 RON

A Romanian Senate committee backed a bill on 2026-10-27 that would cut the TollRo flat fee from 2,000 RON to 500 RON when the distance a vehicle travelled cannot be determined. The Senate Committee for Transport and Infrastructure adopted, by majority, a report admitting bill L579/2026 with amendments, according to Newsweek Romania and Capital . Nothing has passed. The 2,000 RON rule is still the law, and TollRo has been live since 2026-10-01.

What the committee report proposes

Bill L579/2026 is an ordinary-law proposal that amends paragraph 14 of Article 19 of Law 226/2023 and adds payment and sanctions measures, according to the Senate bill tracker . PSD senators initiated it, and it was registered on 2026-09-28. The Senate approved the urgent procedure on 2026-10-05. The Senate is the first chamber, and the Chamber of Deputies is the decisional chamber.

The press lists several changes in the committee report. The flat fee would fall from 2,000 RON to 500 RON, and it would be charged once every 24 hours instead of once every 12 hours. Invoicing would happen twice a month instead of daily, with payment due within 30 days of receiving the information letter. If the app, the tolling system or the control equipment is down for more than 12 hours, vehicles would not be recorded as non-payers for that period, and the tariff would be calculated afterwards from available data at no extra cost, per Capital. Newsweek Romania adds that route tickets could be paid through distributors authorised by CNAIR, the national road infrastructure company, and that the report draws on input from the road hauliers' union UNTRR.

How the proposal differs from the rules in force

Under the current law, the TollRo owed is 2,000 RON when the distance travelled on the SETRE Romania domain cannot be established. Article 19(5)(b) sets that sum, and Article 19(6) says it applies once within a 12-hour interval, as published on lege5.ro . The same text, as originally published in the Monitorul Oficial, gives 72 hours to pay after receiving the information letter. That page does not reflect later amendments, so check the consolidated text before relying on the 72-hour figure.

Two different 12-hour figures are in play, and they should not be mixed up. The first is in force today: the flat sum can be charged once per 12-hour interval. The second is only proposed: an outage longer than 12 hours would stop vehicles being logged as non-payers. The proposal would also stretch the charging interval from 12 to 24 hours.

By our calculation, the current rule allows up to 4,000 RON across 24 hours if two intervals are hit. The proposal caps the flat fee at 500 RON per 24 hours, so the maximum daily exposure would be about eight times lower. Carrier groups had already asked for relief: on 2026-09-30, the road hauliers' association UNTRR asked that the fixed sum not apply when TollRo cannot determine distance for technical reasons, according to Ziua Cargo .

What happens next for carriers

The bill now goes to a Senate plenary vote, and neither Newsweek Romania nor Capital reports a date. The Senate tracker lists 2026-11-13 as the tacit-adoption deadline at the Senate. After the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies still has to decide. No source read for this article gives an entry-into-force date, and none says whether the amendments would be temporary or permanent.

Until Parliament finishes, plan on the current rules. Record the time of any app or equipment failure, and keep every information letter with its receipt date, because the payment term depends on it. For per-km cost planning on Romanian lanes, see our TollRo cost per km breakdown , our earlier TollRo explainer , and the wider EU truck toll changes for 2027 .

If you need a Romanian lane priced with today's TollRo costs, request a quote and we will build it on the rules in force.