PM says the state will pay salaries when there will be money: sometimes during the next three years. Elsewhere in the news, Romania risks being fined 200.000 euros per day if it misses recycling targets. Last but not least, unique patrimony, centuries old books from the Pedagogic Library, are living their last week: the entire library is to be thrown out in the streets because it cannot afford to pay the 20,000 Euros monthly rent.
PM says the state will pay salaries when there will be money: sometimes during the next three years, Gandul reads. Last year, the Romanian Government approved an ordinance according to which the salaries won by state employees in court may be paid in three years. The measure will soon come into force because of the limited finance resources, PM Emil Boc said on Thursday.
In order to pay the remaining incomes for the next three years, the budget was estimated to be in need for three additional instalments, namely 463 million lei in 2011, 462 million lei in 2012 and 473 million lei in 2013. The measure has been ruled to be constitutional by the Romanian Constitutional Court.
Romania risks being fined 200.000 euros per day if it misses recycling targets, Evenimentul Zilei reads. The standards for selective collection and waste recycling targets increase from year to year, until 2013, when Romania must reach European standards. This year's targets for recycling paper have been 60%, plastic 14%, glass - 44% and metals - 50%, EcoRom manager Sorin Popescu explains.
If Romania misses the targets, 200,000/euros per day worth of fines are to be enforced for every missed target plus an infringement procedure. 12.000 tones of package waste have been recycled last year. The country's global recycling target in 2009 was 38%. The figures for 2010 read 42% and 46% for 2011. Both the infrastructure and people's
