UAR makes efforts in order to bring the Romanian legislation in the field of architecture and urban planning to the European and international level. In the Law no. 50/1991 on investments it now states obligation of an architects signature for obtaining the building permit.

A Work Group named National Register of Architects has been created in order to prepare within the Board of the UAR the project of Law on professional practice. The work group will make the lobby for urgent parliamentary approval of the law. UAR is also involved in the preparation of the Law on architectural patrimony, as well as of a Code of Ethics, of a Working Regulation and of a new Statues of the UAR