OBLIGATIONS OF NATURAL PERSONS ON ENTRY AND EXIT IN/FROM ROMANIA/COMMUNITY (According to the Regulation on the Application of the Romanian Customs Code, approved by GD no. 707-2006)
1. Natural persons are obliged to declare at the customs offices - in writing, verbally or by passing through the green corridor or "nothing to declare" - the goods they bring in or take out in/out of the Community and present them for control to the customs authorities.
2. The following goods are subject to written declaration in all cases:
   a) weapons and ammunition, explosive, radioactive, nuclear materials, as well as strategic products stipulated in special laws;
b) drugs or psychotropic substances and their precursors, biological materials with the potential for mass contamination, medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, essential chemical substances as well as toxic products and substances;
c) objects made of precious metals, with or without precious stones, that exceed the personal use established by legal regulations;
d) cultural, historical or artistic goods, only when leaving the country. These goods can be declared, in writing, upon entering the country in order to remove them without other approval.
3. The goods contained in the personal luggage of travelers coming froma third country, provided that they are not introduced for commercial purposes, within the following quantitative limits per traveler:
(According to Regulation (EC) no. 1186/2009 and OMF no. 3424/2008) :
   a) tobacco products : 40 cigarettes or 100 cigarillos (cigars with a maximum weight of 3 grams each), or 50 cigars, or 250 grams of smoking tobacco, or a proportional combination of these different products;
b) alcohol and alcoholic beverages: distilled beverages and spirits, with an alcoholic strength higher than 22% vol; undenatured ethyl alcohol of 80% vol and more: 1 liter or distilled beverages and spirits, wine or alcohol-based aperitifs, taffia, sake or similar beverages with an alcoholic strength of 22% vol or less, sparkling wines, liqueur wines : 2 liters or a proportional combination of these different products and light wines: 2 liters;
c) perfumes: 50 grams and eau de toilette: 0.25 liters.
d) medicines: the amount corresponding to the personal needs of the travelers.
   Travelers under the age of 17 are not granted any exemption for the goods mentioned in letter a) and b).  Â
4. The exemption of goods contained in personal luggage will be granted up to a total value of 430 euros/passenger for goods other than those listed in point 3.
5. Any natural person who enters or leaves the Community and carries cash worth EUR 10,000 or more has the obligation to declare this amount to the customs authority of the Member State through which he enters or leaves the Community.
"Cash" means:
   a) bearer negotiable instruments, including bearer monetary instruments, such as traveller's cheques, negotiable instruments (including cheques, promissory notes and postal orders), which are either bearer, endorsed without restrictions, drawn up in the name of a fictitious beneficiary, or in such a form that ownership of them is transferred at the moment of transmission, as well as incomplete instruments (including checks, promissory notes and money orders) signed but with the beneficiary's name omitted;
   b) currency (banknotes and coins in circulation, as a medium of exchange).
6. The written declaration is made on standardized forms that are made available free of charge by the customs authority, at the request of natural persons.
RULES regarding the return of value added tax to buyers, natural persons, who are not established in the European Community
- a) The traveler is not established in the European Community, respectively the address or permanent residence is not within the European Community.
- b) The goods are transported outside the European Community before the end of the third month following the month in which the delivery takes place;
- c) The total value of the delivery, plus the value added tax, is greater than the equivalent in lei of 175 euros, established annually by applying the exchange rate obtained on the first working day of October and valid from January 1 of the following year ;
- d) The goods are purchased from stores in the retail network authorized to carry out sales of goods that give buyers who are not established in the European Community the right to request a refund of the value added tax;
- e) The proof of export will be made through the invoice bearing the visa of the customs office of exit from the European Community.
Conditions of return
Return procedure
What They're Saying
Craiova International Airport serves both passenger traffic and aircraft movements in the South-West area of Romania. Craiova International Airport has modern infrastructure, the main concerns being related to the continuous increase in the quality of the services provided, the conditions for the arrival, departure and ground handling of aircraft in national and/or international traffic, the provision of airport services for the transit of people, goods and post, as well as services of national public interest, protecting at the same time the natural resources of the environment.
The main interest of Craiova Airport is the constant increase in the quality of the services undertaken, the conditions ensured during departures, arrivals and during ground operations or the parking of aircraft flying internally and externally. At the same time, it offers airport services for the transit of people and goods, as well as for postal services and those aimed at the national public interest, also pursuing the protection of the natural resources of the environment.
Thus, the entire developing region of South-West Romania has at its disposal the fastest and most comfortable means of transport to other destinations in Europe, being able to take over at the moment a flow of 600 passengers per hour and also being the only one that serves the 2.3 million inhabitants of Oltenia.
Craiova Airport has:
As means of air navigation, we mention:
ILS Cat I, D/VOR DME ;
Approach light system: on direction 27, cat. II-III -900 m, and on direction 09, inaccuracy - 420 m.
Located at a distance of 7 km from the center of Craiova, along the Craiova - Bucharest route, the airport serves the entire area of Oltenia, being the closest air gateway for the 5 counties: Dolj, Gorj, Mehedinti, Olt and Valcea.
Thus, the entire developing region of South-West Romania has at its disposal the fastest and most comfortable means of transport to other destinations in Europe, being able to take over at the moment a flow of 600 passengers per hour and also being the only one that serves the 2.3 million inhabitants of Oltenia.