IT Glossary
What is e-Transport?
Romania's national system for monitoring road transport of goods: shipments are declared in advance through the tax authority portal and travel with a UIT code that accompanies the cargo.
Picture a lorry stopped at a roadside check with the right goods, the right invoice and the wrong paperwork, and you have the risk this system creates. e-Transport is the Romanian regime under which certain road shipments must be declared before they move: the consignor registers the shipment in SPV, the online portal of ANAF, the Romanian tax authority, and receives a UIT code — a unique identifier that must accompany the transport and be presentable during a control. The purpose is fiscal rather than logistical: the state wants goods movements visible in near real time so that undeclared trade becomes conspicuous. The categories caught are broad and include high-risk goods, international movements and intra-community acquisitions, with thresholds by weight and value. For a company shipping regularly the operational question is where the declaration comes from. Done by hand it is a form per truck, a person who must not be on holiday, and a dispatcher who will eventually forget one. Generated automatically from the delivery note in your own system it is a field that fills itself, which is the difference between a compliance obligation and a compliance problem.
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Why it matters for your business
No fines or seizures through oversight
Declarations produced by the system rather than by a person remove the missed-form risk that turns a routine check into a costly stop.
Zero manual effort at volume
Codes obtained automatically from the dispatch document scale to hundreds of movements a week without adding administrative staff.
Complete documents and clean traceability
Every shipment carries a matching declaration, so reconciliation between stock movements, invoices and deliveries stops needing detective work.
Frequently asked questions
Which shipments have to be declared in e-Transport?
The regime targets road movements of goods on Romanian territory above defined weight and value thresholds, with a broader net around high-risk product categories, international transport and intra-community acquisitions. Because the categories and thresholds have been amended repeatedly, the safe operating rule is to check the current list against your product codes each quarter rather than relying on what applied last year.
Who makes the declaration — the supplier, the carrier or the recipient?
Responsibility follows the transaction rather than the vehicle. In broad terms the Romanian supplier declares domestic deliveries and exports, while the Romanian beneficiary declares intra-community acquisitions and imports. The carrier is responsible for keeping the code available during the journey and updating the vehicle details. Agreeing this explicitly in your contracts avoids the roadside argument.
How long is a UIT code valid and what if the transport changes?
The code has a limited validity window measured in days from declaration, and it is tied to the shipment as declared. Changes to the vehicle, the route or the quantity must be updated in the system before or during the journey, depending on what changed. A code that has expired or no longer matches the cargo is treated as no code at all during a control.
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