- Authorisation file
- The request, the extract from the project documentation, the notarised agreement of the co-owners, the owner’s written agreement, the positive inspection report, the approvals. It is the class with the greatest mix: it contains the personal data of the beneficiary and of third parties (co-owners, neighbours), technical documents protected by copyright and notarised acts. It also has a procedural particularity: the person receiving the request is not entitled to examine the content of the attached acts, refuse receipt or request additional documents — their competence is limited to registration, to noting that the acts are attached and to issuing the confirming certificate.Keep: Unverified as a term. The Code requires that information about issued authorisations be sent to the central database of the Register of Permissive Acts and that the second copy of the urbanism certificate for design be kept in the issuer’s archive, without setting a duration; the archiving term at the issuer depends on archival legislation, which we have not verified.SourceUrban Planning and Construction Code No. 434/2023, art. 108 para. (3), art. 148 para. (1) items a)–g), art. 159 para. (1) item c) and para. (3)
- Technical book of the construction
- Four chapters: design documentation, execution documentation, reception documentation and documentation on operation, maintenance, repair and monitoring in operation, plus the central register with the summary data sheet and the slips. Chapters A, B and C are finalised before reception; chapter D is completed during operation. It is the class that ties all the others together: the importance category of the structure is entered in it, the results of inspections are recorded in it as mandatory, and its restoration in case of loss or damage is carried out by a certified technical expert engaged by the investor.Keep: Throughout the entire lifespan of the structure, until the demolition authorisation is obtained; on paper and in electronic form, updated semi-annually during operation. After demolition, the owner hands it over for archiving to the local public administration authority, by handover-takeover deed. When completion is done through the state information system, archiving is carried out through that system.SourceUrban Planning and Construction Code No. 434/2023, art. 229 paras. (1)–(4), art. 231 paras. (1)–(4), art. 239 para. (2), art. 240 paras. (3), (5) and (9)
- Event log
- The living part of the Technical Book, kept by the owner for the duration of operation. The results of monitoring behaviour in operation and the condition of the structure are entered once a quarter, if the special monitoring project does not provide another term; in exceptional events — fires, floods, landslides, earthquakes with an intensity higher than the normative one — the structure is examined, and the results are entered here as well. On transfer of ownership, the new owner records the fact in the transfer contract and in the event log.Keep: The same as the Technical Book it belongs to: the construction’s service life, then archiving with the local authority after demolition.SourceUrban Planning and Construction Code no. 434/2023, art. 240 para. (4) and (8), art. 241 para. (1)–(2)
- Data of the natural person beneficiary
- Name, address, identity document, national identification number, contact details, sometimes ownership status and family consents. They end up in the authorisation dossier, in the contract, in estimates and — most often — in a messenger, because the discussion started there. They are collected on the basis of a contract or pre-contractual measures at the request of the person, and the national identification number has its own article, with its own safeguards, which are not activated because it is convenient to have it.Keep: Unverified as a fixed term established by an act in the field of construction. It is determined by the operator, based on the nature of the data and the purpose, with specific deletion or review periods, and is declared in the record of processing activities. For documents that are included in the Technical File, its duration applies.SourceLaw No. 195/2024, art. 5 para. (1) lit. e), art. 6 para. (1) lit. b), art. 30 para. (1) lit. f) and art. 53 para. (2) lit. b)
- Project documentation and the copyright over it
- The explanatory memorandum, plans, facades, colour solutions, the execution organisation project, the specifications. It is not just technical content: the code has a chapter on protecting copyright in project documentation and on its repeated use, and the construction importance category is determined by the designer and entered in all related technical documents. The consequence for a site or an assistant that “shows projects” is that the material has an author with rights, even when the client has paid for the work.Keep: As part of Chapter A in the Technical Book — the lifespan of the construction. As a working file at the design office, the registration notice in the state register requires the declaration of the persons responsible for the record-keeping and archiving of documents, but does not set a duration; the term is established at company level.SourceUrban Planning and Construction Code No. 434/2023, art. 10 para. (4) item a), art. 128 paras. (3)–(4), arts. 142–144, art. 231 para. (2) item a)
- Site photographs and photographs of the completed object
- The material that feeds any industry presentation. There are two overlapping problems. The first is that the image of an inhabited interior or an identifiable façade can lead to a person, which makes publication a processing activity with its own legal basis. The second is that the law has already chosen the regime for the public side of the dossier: what the public authority publishes is depersonalised. A company that publishes more than the state, about the same work, is not more transparent; it is in a position that it cannot justify.Keep: Unverified as a term. We have not identified an act that fixes the retention period of a construction company’s photographic material. It is established by agreement with the beneficiary, with the term written down, and declared in the record of processing activities.SourceLaw No. 195/2024, art. 5 para. (1) lit. e), art. 6 para. (1) lit. a) and art. 30 para. (1) lit. f); Urban Planning and Construction Code No. 434/2023, art. 159 para. (2)