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Agriculture: Agriculture should be linchpin of Romania -Turkey economic partnership
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Romania -Turkey cooperation, with emphasis on economic aspects, was the subject tackled at a meeting this Monday between chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Policy Petru Filip and a delegation of the Turkish Businessmen Association (TIAD). The Romanian official said that agriculture should be the linchpin of the two countries' economic partnership.In his intervention, Turkish ...
Producers' association and consultancy system could bring Romania among top agri-food product exporters
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Romania could become a net agri-food product exporter only if it manages to determine farmers to associate and if it draws up a consultancy system explaining producers which products are demanded on the market, Secretary of State with the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (MADR) Achim Irimescu told an agriculture conference on Monday.'One of the conditions would be the ...
Romania's grain crops might reach rd.18-19M tonnes, in 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Romania's grain crops could reach about 18-19 million tomes , in 2013, whether everything goes well during the coming time span, Agriculture Ministry State Secretary Achim Irimescu told a conference on agricultural topics, on Monday. He believes that boosting the animal breeding sector would lead to an efficient use of the next grain crop.'I think, it would be very important ...
Real Estate: Restitution of properties confiscated by communist regime (means)
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Former owners of seized buildings, whose cases were resolved, will receive compensations within five years, in equal installments of at least 5,000 lei, as of January 1, 2014, according to the draft law on measures to complete the process of restitution, in kind or money compensations, of the assets confiscated during the communist regime in Romania.At the same time, the former owners of nationalized buildings, who ...
Infrastructure: Minister Fenechiu: Degree of concentration of EU funds surges from 60 up to more than 80 pct in two months
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Minister of Transportation has achieved an increase in the degree of concentration of EU funds up to more than 80 percent from below 60 percent in two months's time, while aiming at close to 100 percent degree of concentration in the end of 2015.'I took over the ministry with the lowest EU funds absorption rate in Romania. Our country has managed to absorb as little as 450 million euros out of ...
Trade: Retail turnover up against January 2012
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The retail turnover (except for the motor vehicles and motorcycles) went up 2.8 percent both as adjusted series and as adjusted series depending on the number of days worked and seasonality, due to a growth recorded in sales of foods stuffs, beverages and tobacco (plus 7.3 percent) and sales in non-food stuffs (plus 1.4 percent). In the case of the retail sale of automotive fuels in specialized stores the ...
Agriculture: Two notifications of aflatoxin contamination in corn via Rapid Alert System
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) received on Tuesday two notifications via the European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), from Germany's national relevant point of contact, on the presence of aflatoxins in corn used in animal feed, ANSVSA informed in a release.One notification refers to the presence of aflatoxins in corn (feed) coming from Serbia via ...
Statistics: Cow's milk collected by processing units advances 5.1 pct in January 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Cow's milk collected by processing units from agricultural holdings and collection centres in January 2013 was up 5.1 per cent (3,160 tonnes) from the month before, standing at 65,174 tonnes, but down 4.3 per cent from January 2012, according to data released on Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).The biggest rise in the January 2013 production compared with December 2012 ...
9-pct VAT in the entire wheat milling and bread making chain possible from July
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Romanian Government could make a decision after April 15 concerning the introduction of a pilot project concerning a 9-per cent Value-Added Tax (VAT) in the entire wheat milling and bread making chain, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin on Thursday told a national conference of wheat millers and bread makers.'The Government intends to introduce on July 1, 2013 a pilot project for ...
Tourism : Romania to be partner country of International Tourism Fair in Stuttgart 2015
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Romanian and German authorities signed an agreement by means of which Romania will be the main partner in the 2015 International Tourism Fair in Stuttgart and thus benefit by publicity for the German public, Maria Grapini told Agerpres on last Thursday at the International Tourism Fair in Berlin. 'I have signed a partnership agreement with the organizers of the Tourism Fair in ...
Messerschmidt Reisen: Number of German tourists on Romanian seaside will drop 30 percent in 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The number of German tourists visiting the Romanian seaside will drop 30 percent in 2013, compared with last year, because of the lack of direct flights to Constanta (225 km south-east of Bucharest), Sofrone Messerschmidt Reisen representative Toni Messerschmidt told Agerpres. Sofrone Messerschmidt Reisen participates on Romania's behalf in the International Tourism Fair Berlin 2013.Over ...
Romania could be re-introduced in TUI, Neckermann catalogues from 2014
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Romanian tourist destinations could be re-introduced in the German tour-operators TUI and Neckermann catalogues from 2014, Romanian Minister-delegate for SMEs, Business Climate and Tourism Maria Grapini told AGERPRES at the Berlin 2013 International Tourism Fair on last Thursday.Grapini also spoke of Romania's presence at the exhibition, about the strategies for the promotion of the ...
Telecom.IT: Vodafone had over 8.12 million clients in Romania in 2012, on the drop by 2.4%
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Vodafone Romania announced at the end of 2012 that it had 8.122 million on the rise by 247,847 clients, compared to the previous quarter. As against the end of 2011, the number of clients is on the drop by 2.46% (205,000 clients). In the last quarter of 2012, Vodafone incomes grew by 27% compared to the same period of the previous year and by 8.6% against the ...
Real estate: CBRE: Developers may start building industrial parks
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Developers might start building industrial parks, an action postponed for several years, on the background of economic and political stability. 70,000 square meters are now in the stage of planning because of difficulties in obtaining financing, according to CBRE ...
Healthcare: Study: Modest 3.1% progress for pharmaceutical market in 2012
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Romanian pharmaceutical market ranked to 2.63 billion euro, on the rise by 3.1% against ...
Healthy life years in 2011 : In the EU27, both women and men could expect at birth to live 62 years in a healthy condition ... ...and 9 additional years at the age of 65
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Healthy life years measure the number of years that a person can expect to live in a healthy condition birth, both women and men in the EU27 could expect to live 62 years in a healthy condition in 2011. At the age of 50, they could expect another 18 years living in a healthy ...
Infrastructure: Romanian Naval Authority to be headed by cruise liner Captain
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Transport and Infrastructure Minister's order, on Tuesday, appointed Professor of the Mircea cel Batran Naval Academy and deputy chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Navigation and Agriculture, of Constanta (Romanian Black Sea shore), cruise liner Captain Andrian Mihei as the Romanian Naval Authority (ANR) general manager.Taking over the position, Andrian Mihei, in an exclusive with Agerpres said that his ...
TAROM introduces new routes and destinations, according to summer schedule 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
TAROM introduces new routes and destinations, departing from Iasi, from April 27 to October 26, 2013, the company informs in a release. The airline will introduce the following flights: Iasi-London-Iasi, Iasi - Turin - Iasi, Iasi - Bologna - Iasi, Bucharest - Rome - Iasi - Rome - Bucharest / Iasi - Rome - Iasi.'TAROM started a sustained process, adapting its product to the needs of the regional traffic ...
Travel by InterCity trains cheaper as of March 1
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Short and medium-distance travel by InterCity trains will be cheaper by up to 28.5 percent, as of March 1, 2013, CFR (Romanian Railways) said in a release. At the same time, charges for long-distance travel will be recalculated, so that passengers to continue to find traveling by train advantageous for them, while the company stays thus competitive. The Government Decision no. 33/2013 has modified the methodology ...
Premier Ponta: Romania must create public-private partnership for building motorways
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Romania should amend its legislation on leasing contracts in order to develop infrastructure projects, said Premier Victor Pontas on Wednesday referring to motorway building. 'Here we have to do away with a taboo: the fact that in Romania there was never a leasing contract, namely from money taken out of the budget, but there should be an investor offering financing and the state grants certain ...