Romania Prime Minister Emil Boc held a press conference on Tuesday, discussing the absorption of European Union funds. Although Romania has a better pace than during the previous governance, Boc says that the absorption capacity is far from pleasing.
PM Emil Boc's main statements, in brief:
- I am not pleased with Romania's funds absorption capacity;
- Between December 22, the day the current Government begun its work, and March 20, 2009, 683 operational program projects were approved, compared to 420 - the number of projects approved between 2007 and 2008;
- Referring to effective signing of financing contracts, 360 such contracts were signed during the same period, compared to 168 contracts between 200 and 2008.
- The total value of financing contracts is over 630 million Euros;
- Most projects are in the "Increase of economic competitiveness" operational field;
- What we need to do is to shorten even more the distance between approving a project and signing the financing contract;
- The second problem is the distance between gaining financing and organizing the necessary bids, this problem is often not a Governmental problem. There are terms reaching even 14 months from signing the contract to putting up a bid;
- For this, we begun to modify the public procurement law, reducing the bid organizing term from 87 to 30 days; Romania Prime Minister Emil Boc held a press conference on Tuesday, discussing the absorption of European Union funds. Although Romania has a better pace than during the previous governance, Boc says that the absorption capacity is far from pleasing.
PM Emil Boc's main statements, in brief:
- I am not pleased with Romania's funds absorption capacity;
- Between December 22, the day the current Government begun its
