Driving licences · Romanian Government Ordinance 195/2002, annex 1 · text checked on 7 November 2026

Does your licence cover this trailer in Romania?

The category annex adds no weighbridge figures; it adds the maximum authorised masses on the registration certificates. Enter the two F.1 values and see where the outfit lands: up to 3,500 kg on plain category B, up to 4,250 kg with the training course when the trailer passes 750 kg, and beyond that with BE, the Romanian car-and-trailer category.

The bar adds the car authorised mass to the trailer one, on a scale to 7,000 kg. The ticks mark the two outfit totals in the annex: 3,500 and 4,250 kg.

Two separate checks

Example: a 2,600 kg car and a 1,300 kg trailer

Covered with the training course

The outfit totals 3,900 kg, so plain B is not enough; with the training course completed it fits the 4,250 kg band.

The trailer passes 750 kg and the total passes 3,500 kg: for this outfit the annex asks for proof of a training course at an authorised driving school. No towing-limit comparison has been made: you have not chosen whether the trailer has brakes or entered the matching limit from the car’s CIV.

The three steps: 750, 3,500 and 4,250 kilograms#

Annex 1 to Romanian Government Emergency Ordinance 195/2002, the road traffic code, describes category B outfits at letter f): a towing vehicle whose maximum authorised mass does not pass 3,500 kg, with a trailer whose maximum authorised mass “does not exceed 750 kg”. For a trailer heavier than 750 kg, the same letter admits an outfit whose maximum authorised mass does not pass 4,250 kg, and article 24¹ paragraph (3) sets the next line: over a 3,500 kg outfit, the category B driver proves that they “have graduated a training course” at an authorised unit.

The situation, from the certificates	What suffices	Why
The trailer is at most 750 kg	Plain B	The light-trailer case in the annex
The trailer passes 750 kg, the outfit is at most 3,500 kg	Plain B	Under the line where training begins
The trailer passes 750 kg, the outfit is between 3,501 and 4,250 kg	B plus the training course	Article 24¹(3): course graduated, no new category exam
The outfit passes 4,250 kg, the trailer is at most 3,500 kg	BE, by exam	Annex 1 letter g) and article 24¹(1)(b)
The car passes 3,500 kg or the trailer passes 3,500 kg	Outside this checker	Categories C1 and C1E territory

Code 96 is the European name of the middle step, the code entered on the licence for this band. The Romanian passage read for this page speaks of the training course and proof of graduating it; the administrative step that puts the mention on an actual licence deserves a confirmation at the licence office while the course is fresh.

Why the certificate mass, and not today’s load#

Every threshold above is written in maximum authorised masses, the approval limits printed at field F.1 of the registration certificates. A caravan with an authorised mass of 1,500 kg stays a 1,500 kg trailer for licence purposes on the day it leaves almost empty. Loading it past its authorised mass is a separate vehicle-conformity problem, not a detail that moves the category in your favour.

The separation has a practical upside: the licence verdict can be settled at home, with the two certificates open, no weighbridge needed. The only numbers required sit in the same field of both documents. Where adverts quote a running weight or the caravan’s own mass, those describe something else and do not enter the addition here.

Older European explanations often add a condition about the car’s unladen mass. In the consolidated Romanian passage read on 7 November 2026 for category B, that comparison does not appear: the annex names the authorised masses of the trailer and of the outfit. This checker follows the Romanian annex, for Romanian roads and licences.

Can the car tow the trailer? Another question, other fields#

The right licence does not establish what the car can tow. In the car’s vehicle identity document (CIV), O.1 gives the maximum towing mass with a braking device and O.2 the maximum without one. These fields are in the CIV, not in the current registration-certificate model; the registration-certificate guide explains what that certificate contains. In the checker, choose whether the trailer has its own brakes and enter the matching CIV field. Changing the choice clears the old value, so an O.1 limit cannot accidentally be reused as O.2.

The checker compares the trailer’s F.1 maximum authorised mass with the selected O.1 or O.2 value from the CIV. It does not check the actual loaded mass, coupling, axle loads or the other limits in the manual; check those separately for your vehicles. Authorised F.1 masses and actual mass answer different questions.

If you do not know whether the trailer has its own brakes, leave the choice at “I don’t know”: the checker makes no towing-limit comparison until you choose whether it has brakes and enter the matching CIV field.

What remains to be settled elsewhere#

The checker reads two authorised masses and a licence category. It judges neither the state of the coupling, the trailer brakes or the wiring, nor the technical inspection, nor the speed the outfit may keep on each road. Speed limits for outfits and the plate and lighting rules live in the same traffic code, in their own articles.

For the middle step, proof of the training course must be showable; how the mention reaches the licence belongs to the public licence service’s procedure, which the passage read here does not describe. For outfits outside the table (a car or trailer over 3,500 kg), categories C1 and C1E have their own combinations and call for a driving school that prepares them.

Frequently asked questions#

Can I tow a 750 kg trailer on category B?

Yes, that is the light-trailer case in the annex, with a category B car. The car’s technical conditions, fields O.1 and O.2, are checked separately.

What is B96, and is there an exam?

It is the European name of the step for outfits over 3,500 kg and up to 4,250 kg with a trailer over 750 kg. The Romanian text read here asks for proof of a training course graduated at an authorised unit; for this step it asks for no new-category exam, unlike BE.

Do I need BE for a 1,300 kg caravan?

It depends on the car, because authorised masses are added. Behind a 2,100 kg car the outfit makes 3,400 kg and plain B covers it; behind a 2,600 kg car it makes 3,900 kg and enters the training-course band; BE appears only over a 4,250 kg outfit.

Does what I actually loaded matter?

For the licence, the trailer maximum authorised mass on its certificate counts. The checker compares its F.1 mass with the selected O.1 or O.2 limit in the car’s CIV; check actual loaded mass, coupling, axle loads and other limits separately.

My car has a factory towbar. Can it tow any trailer up to 750 kg?

Not necessarily. Check O.1 in the car’s CIV for a trailer with its own brakes or O.2 for one without, then check actual mass, coupling and the car’s other limits separately.

Where do the masses for the checker come from?

From field F.1 of each registration certificate: car and trailer each carry their maximum authorised mass there.

Sources and how they were checked#

The thresholds were re-read on 7 November 2026 in annex 1 and article 24¹ of Romanian Government Emergency Ordinance 195/2002, consolidated on 6 November 2026. The Legislative Portal refused automated access that day, so the official reading was made through a separate check, with quotations; that status is recorded in the project sources file. The Romanian annex works with maximum authorised masses; the unladen-mass condition found in older explanations does not appear in the consolidated category B passage read for this page. Review recommended on any amendment to the annex and by May 2027 at the latest.