[1] It will connect the cities of Pitești (branching off the A1 motorway), Slatina and Craiova (where it is planned to merge with the also planned A6 motorway), being 121 km long, with an estimated total cost of 1.66 billion euro.

[2] As of 29 November 2024, the Craiova - Albota segment is in service, totaling 109.3 km (67.9 mi).

While planned as a motorway, the construction was tendered as a concession contract in March 2013,[3] that should have been awarded until December 2013.

The contracts for the sections 1 and 2 were awarded in October 2018 to the Italian company Tirrena Scavi and the Romanian company Spedition UMB, respectively,[8] while those for the sections 3 and 4 had been signed in September 2020 with the Romanian joint-venture SA&PE Construct-Spedition UMB-Tehnostrade, without waiting for the decisions of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, the bids being challenged by several other participants.

[15] Among companies asking for the expressway works to begin as soon as possible was the automaker Ford, who has a car plant in Craiova.