This procedure regulates the manner of cancellation, modification, rectification, or completion of civil status documents and their annotations.

In accordance with art.58 of Law 119/1996 republished, regarding civil status documents, the rectification of civil status documents and the annotations entered on their margins is done based on the decision of the mayor of the administrative-territorial unit that holds the civil status document, ex officio or at the request of the interested person, with the prior approval of the County Public Community Service for Personal Records.

By interested person we mean the natural person to whom the civil status document refers.

The application for rectification of civil status documents and of the annotations entered on them, accompanied by supporting documents, shall be submitted to the Public Community Service for Personal Records – Civil Status Service, which holds the civil status document or, as the case may be, to the city hall of the residence locality.

This is resolved within 30 days, by issuing a decision by the mayor of the locality, which is communicated to the applicant within 10 days from the date of issuance.

The substantiated report, containing the results of the verifications, will be presented for approval to the mayor of the locality, after having been previously endorsed by the Head of the Civil Status Service within the County Public Directorate for Personal Records as well as by the director of the same directorate.

The decision may be challenged in the court whose territorial jurisdiction includes the seat of the issuing authority, under the conditions of the law.