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Agriculture Minister: 371 ml euros made available for irrigation system
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
As much as 371 ml euros will be made available for Romania's irrigation system in 2014, whereas 2012 and 2013 allocations for the secondary infrastructure stood at 111 million euros, Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin declared at the Romania TV channel on January 7.'We came up with cuts for the water used for irrigation, because the price of energy accounts for 80% of the price of water, ...
Ongoing efforts to restock Razim-Sinoe lake complex with pikeperch
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Federation of Danube Delta Fish Producers Organizations (FOPPDD) and Romanian researchers continue actions for identifying pikeperch brood fish to restock the Razim-Sinoe lake complex (country southeast, near the Black Sea), but mere 50 individuals have been caught so far because of the thinning population of pikeperch.According to FOPPDD president Dan Verbia, brood fish identification actions started as early as November, but only ...
Cars: Pioneering move in Romania's automotive industry, the LPG-only car
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
AGR Autogas Group, a company specialising in automotive alternative fuel solutions, achieved a first in Romania by equipping a Volkswagen Jetta with the first liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) installation with liquid gas injection, which allows the car's exclusive operation on LPG.'The novelty about this system is that the car will run exclusively on LPG, so that starting the engine will no longer require gasoline, as in the case of LPG ...
Registrations of new motor vehicles grow by almost 17 percent in December 2013
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The number of new car registrations amounted to 7,742 vehicles in December 2013, up by almost 17 percent from the similar time span of the previous year, read the data supplied by the Directorate for the Regime of Driving Licences and Registration of Vehicles, which were published on Friday. In the last month of the year Dacia was the car make that was most registered, ...
Telecom.IT: Highest prices for phone calls to fix and mobile points may drop
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The highest prices for calls made to fix points will be 0.14 eurocents/minute, and will not exceed 0.96 eurocents/minute for mobile points according to the latest price levels established by the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications(ANCOM) which will have to get the accord of the European Commission. ANCOM shows in a press release that it has completed the last national debates on ...
Number of mobile phone users dropped in last 6 months
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The number of active users of mobile phone services dropped by 0.5% over 2012-June 2013, to 22.6 million, while voice traffic went up by 2.5% to 31.6 billion minutes, according to data supplied by the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications(ANCOM). “The voice market is ...
Local telecoms market among Europe's most advanced
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
In 2013 the Romanian telecommunications market has further counted among the most advanced in Europe, thanks to the newly launched 4G services and the boom in the use of mobile Internet, Orange Romania CEO Jean - François Fallacher told Agerpres.The Orange official considers that this year the operator has strengthened its position as market leader in terms of both the number of ...
Trade: Stability in retail trade, services from December 2013 to February 2014 (managers' estimates)
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The activity in trade and services will be relatively stable from December 2013 to February 2014, whilst the activity in processing industry and construction will decrease from the previous three months, according to the estimates voiced by the managers of trading companies, the National Institute of Statistics informs.Within the short-term survey conducted in December 2013, the managers in ...
GFK Study: Brands Romanians trust most
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Heidi chocolate is the brand most trusted by the Romanians. It is followed by Santal and Zewa, while Coca Cola, Pepsi and Kinder are associated with traditions, while Pilos dairy products and Promienna oil, labels belonging to Lidl, have the best quality/price relation, according to GfK data. The study made by GfK National Brands & ...
Excess foodstuff trade after 20 years
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
For the first time after 20 years Romania obtained an excess foodstuff trade of 3 million euro after the first 9 months of 2013, the minister of agriculture Daniel Constantin told Agerpres.“Romania has not had excess foodstuff trade since 1994 and now we already have an excess of 3.2 million euro. I think we will conclude 2013 with the same excess, considering that the present data are for only three quarters. We had foodstuff exports of 3.51 ...
1.2 million Romanians buy online similar to developed countries
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
About 1.2 million Romanians buy online, which means 15% of Internet users, similar to developed countries.“F64 Company estimates a business figure of 20 million euro for 2013, preserving a growing trend of 12% in 2013. F64 is developing, as the e-commerce market is growing by 40% every year. On the average, 15% of Internet users buy online, which means about 12 million Romanians. Now F64 has a market share of 43%, according to GfK, for the ...
Infrastructure: Bucharest airports: gross profit of 90 million lei and 7 million passengers traffic in 11 months
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Bucharest Airports National Company (CNAB) registered overall incomes of 593 million lei in the first 11 months of 2013, on the rise by 7.2% compared to 2012, while gross profit was 90 million lei, four times more than anticipated for the whole year.According to company data the overall CNAB data for 2013 were estimated at 650 million lei.In November the company registered 566,011 passengers, on the rise by 5.2% compared to the previous ...
Health: Coltea Hospital becomes 4th unit in Romania for cell transplants
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Coltea Hospital in Bucharest became the fourth health unit in Romania which performs cell transplants in December 2013, after the first stem sell transplant.Physicians from Coltea Hospital made the transplant to a 56 year-old patient for whom the procedure was standard treatment for multiple myeloma, the hospital manager Dr. Anca Lupu told Mediafax. The transplant was a ...
Real estate: DTZ Echinox: Timid improvement in real estate market in 2013
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
For the fifth year on a row, the real estate consulting market remains at low level compared to other consulting fields and to the one recorded before 2009. The overall market volume in real estate consulting is today below the level recorded by some players before 2009, said Oana Iliescu, managing director of DTZ Echinox. However there was a slight improvement in ...
Immofinanz Group: Rental income in Romania counts for EUR 24.5 million and is growing
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The rental income of Immofinanz Group in Romania totals EUR 24.5 million in the first fiscal half-year 2013/2014, marking an increase as against the similar period of the past fiscal year when it was worth EUO 23.6 million, a release sent to Agerpres reads.'The EUR 24.5 million represent 7.7% of the total rental income of the group. The outcome of the operations of Romania went up to EUR 15.5 ...
Agriculture: Small farmers will have to produce only milk that meets European standards as of Jan 1, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The small farmers in Romania will have to observe basic hygiene norms as of January 1, 2014, if they want to sell their milk at the market, in the context in which the period of transition that was granted to Romania to get in line with the EU hygiene regulations referring to the raw cow milk expired on December 31. On November 2011, Romania obtained the approval from the European Commission to ...
Romania's three-quarter milk and cream imports worth over 63 mln euros
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Romania's milk and cream imports over the first nine months of 2013 amounted to 63.3 million euros, up by almost 20% from the same period of the previous year, when the figure stood at 52.8 million euros, shows data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.The amount of milk and cream imported in the first nine months of the year from EU and non-EU markets totaled about ...
Romania to receive 10.6 billion euros in direct payments per surface in the next seven years
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The budget that was earmarked to Romania via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for direct payments per hectare will be worth more than 10.6 billion euros in the 2014-2020 interval, which means that direct payments per hectare will reach 196 euros in 2019, from 139.17 as it was in 2013.'Following negotiations with the new CAP, Romania managed to maintain the single surface payment scheme - ...
Cars: Dacia has highest growth pace in France's automotive market in 2013
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
French Automotive Group Renault, the owner of Romanian carmaker Dacia, on Thursday announced it has retained and strengthened its leading position in the French automotive market, as six of Renault Group-made vehicles rank among the top-10 best selling passenger cars - Clio (No. 1), Scenic, Megane, Dacia Sandero, Captur and Twingo, informs a Renault release.Furthermore, Dacia posted the highest ...
Tourism : 2013: positive year for Romanian tourism
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The absorption rate of EU funds at the level of the National Authority for Tourism (ANT), one of the priorities of the institution for this year, has increased significantly in 2013, to over 22%, from around 6% in 2012.The ANT is an intermediary body in tourism field for the Regional Operational Programme, managing within Priority Axis No. 5 of the Regional Operational Programme, the key intervention field 5.3 'Promoting tourism ...