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State to give over 116 mln lei in aid to farm producers for 2012-13
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
State aid totalling 116,317,000 lei will be given the farm producers for 2012-2013 according to a resolution adopted by the Government at its meeting on Wednesday.State aid will be given for the payment of the insurance premiums for the agricultural crops, animals, poultry and bee families for 2013. The money will be extended the small- and medium-sized businesses for the payment of the ...
Romania stays in top ten wine consumer worldwide ranking, with 22-24 litres per capita
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Romania stays in top ten wine consumer worldwide ranking, in terms of taxed consumption, amounting to 22-24 litres per capita, Romania's representative to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) Catalin Paduraru said in the opening of Goodwine International Wine Fair, at Romexpo, Bucharest.'The market level stands at about 500 million euros, with an ascending trend, although the ...
Romania tops EU by maize-grown area, ranking 3rd by 2012 production
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Romania in 2012 ranked top in the European Union by the maize-grown area, but it trailed third by the maize production, after France and Italy, because of the lower yield, shows the statistic research on the Agricultural Production in Main Crops in 2012 made by the National Institute for Statistics.As regards the sunflower - one of the Romanian ...
First agricultural mutual fund likely to be set up by end-June
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The first mutual fund in agriculture might be set up by the end of June 2013, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin told a Wednesday working meeting with the milk market producers and processing firms.'I hope we'll have, by June 30, the first mutual fund set up in Romania, so as to increase the farmers' responsibility, on the one hand and be able to compensate the possible ...
Fraudulent products labeled 'organic' or 'bio' will be stopped
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Products labeled fraudulently with inscriptions that contain the name 'organic' or 'eco' will be sanctioned not only by fines but also by the temporary withdrawal from sale of the products in question, as according to a resolution adopted on Wednesday by the Government.'Operators who fraudulently use the terms 'organic' or 'ecological' or abbreviations such as 'eco' or 'bio' as trademarks or practices ...
Cars: Environment Minister Rovana Plumb: We will, for sure, implement the Scrappage program since April 15
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Rovana Plumb announced, on Saturday, March 30, in a press conference in Ploiesti (south), that the auto fleet renewal program - the Scrap, will be 'definitely' implemented as of April 15, but she could not say how many vouchers will be issued.'I know that everyone is waiting the next auto park renewal program, the so-called Scrappage program. We are in the period of ...
Healthcare: Co-payment for hospital care came into force Monday, April 1
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Co-payment for hospital care comes into force Monday, when the framework agreement concerning the social healthcare insurance is implemented and application rules are published in the Official Journal.Co-payment will vary between RON 5 and RON 10 and levied upon discharge, irrespective of the length of hospitalisation. Each hospital will levy the co-payment based on an approval of the its administration board, ...
Telecom.IT : Bitdefender: cyber attacks on high number of institutions, increasingly more aggressive
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Bitdefender informs that the cyber attacks of distributed denial of service (DDoS) type on a high number of institutions become increasingly more aggressive and affect a significant part of the Internet, and the latest security incident has targeted Spamhaus.The producer of IT security solutions says that the DDoS attacks on a high number of institutions ...
Netopia blazes trail for mobilPay application in Romania
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
MasterCard and e-payments processor Netopia plan to blaze a trail for the shift from e-commerce to mobile phone payments and also to initiate the customers' education in the latest payment technology released in ...
Telecom IT: Orange Romania promotes sales of Samsung Galaxy Camera
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Orange Romania launched a promotion whereby customers who purchase a Samsung Galaxy Camera until 30 April and enter the product code on Samsung Romania's Facebook page get a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Wi-Fi as a gift. Powered by Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the camera supports 3G/4G and Wi-Fi and features a BSI CMOS sensor of 16 Megapixels, 4.8-inch display with HD resolution and Super Amoled technology, Exynos ...
Infrastructure : Ordinance on funding contract for underground main line 5, Drumul Taberei-Pantelimon, approved by Senate
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Senate plenum in the meeting on Monday approved the Government ordinance draft No. 11/2013 for the approval of the funding contract between Romania and the European Investment Bank (EIB), corresponding to the project of modernising the underground of Bucharest - main line 5 Drumul Taberei - ...
EC approves allotting 145 million euros to project protecting Romanian Black Sea shore
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The European Commission (EC) on Monday approved an investment worth over 145 million euros from the Cohesion Fund in an environment project aimed at protecting the Black Sea shore in south-eastern Romania, a region attracting over eight million tourists annually, informs an EC release made public in Brussels.The project will focus on five areas that are most exposed to the phenomenon ...
Minsiter-delegate Sova: Deadline for finalising talks with Bechtel, set at April 30
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Minister-delegate for infrastructure projects of national interest and foreign investment Dan Sova on Monday said the deadline for the finalisation of talks with Bechtel was set at April 30, which is good, adding that he ...
Danube as an Instrument for Macro-regional Cooperation
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
According to Brandua Predescu, National Coordinator of the EU Strategy ...
Spain looks at large-scale infrastructure projects for boosting economic relations with Romania
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Secretary of State for Trade with the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Jaime Garcia Legaz, expressed his country's interest in the opportunities Romania has to offer to Spanish investors, and voiced readiness for giving bilateral economic relations a boost, including through large-scale infrastructure projects.The subject was approached during a meeting this Friday with Secretary of ...
KPMG :Emerging trends that will change the world of infrastructure over the next five years
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
2012 was a challenging year for the infrastructure sector. Many governments around the world struggled to bring projects to market and, as a result, pipelines were thin. Financing markets continued to be tight, economic stability remained allusive and activity subdued. Looking ahead, the foundations for future growth are being laid and ...
Tourism: Romania ranks 68th in the world for tourism competitiveness according to WEF
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Romania ranks 68th in a classification about tourism competitiveness in 140 countries published in the 2013 report of the World Economic Forum ...
Austrian leap in Romanian tourism, directly from sand of Dakar desert to Paltinis snow
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Tourism in the oldest mountain resort in Romania, Paltinis, Sibiu County (central Romania), which is the highest one too, 1,442 metres in the Cindrel Mountains, the Southern Carpathians, has increasingly come to life in the past three years due to an investment that was initially regarded with skepticism by people who did not know what it was about: the best and most modern fun park in Romania for ...
Constanta Port to become once again important cruise liner hub
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
There's every chance that the Constanta Port turns once again this year into an important hub of the sea and river cruises, with general manager of the CNAPMC SA National Sea Port Administration Corporation Prof. Dr. Engineer Lucian Balut saying on Wednesday that 66 arrivals of cruise liners in the passenger terminal have been announced so far for 2013, out of which 13 are river cruise ships, and 53 sea cruise ...
Cars: BMW Motorrad launches new motorcycle version R 1200GS in Romania
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The BMW motorcycle division BMW Motorrad launched BMW R 1200GS model in Romania on Friday at a price of 16,384 euro, VAT included, at the same time with BMW HP4 for circuit competitions. BMW R1200GS has a boxer engine with water cooling system, made for the first time after 90 years of the Munich concern.“We expect to sell tens of new models recently launched ...