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Infrastructure : European funds for road infrastructure suspended. Restriction may be lifted in September
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
European funds for road infrastructure allocated through the Sector Operational Program Transports (POS-T) are suspended by the European Commission for checkups about their allocation. At the end of September there will be a new evaluation for a possible unblocking of money. According to data supplied by representatives of the Ministry of Transports and Infrastructure the program was suspended a month ago, but at the end of September the ministry will present a ...
Romania, to invest 33 million euros for intermodal transport development
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Ministry of Transports and Infrastructure (MTI) proposes to allocate 33 million euros for the development of intermodal transport terminals in different parts of Romania, shows a draft order of the Minister released by the Ministry.According to the draft order approving the Strategy for intermodal transport in Romania, which changes the strategy approved on June 20, 2011, the Ministry has identified, based on the assessment of routes and transit flows for the ...
Freight traffic on waterways, increasing
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The freight traffic on the waterways Danube - Black Sea and Midia - Navodari increased in August, being the fourth consecutive month this year when it exceeded 3 million tonnes transported capacity.National Navigable Canals Administration Corporation (CNACN) representatives informed through a press release that last month on the two waterways they registered a traffic standing at 3,110,000 tonnes capacity, by 45,000 tonnes more than in the same period of last ...
Cars : Dacia cars sales on French market, 21.1 percent higher in August
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A number of 5,975 new Dacia cars were registered in France in August, 21.1 percent more than the 4,932 units registered during the similar period of 2011, announced the committee of French car manufacturers.Over the first eight months of 2012, Dacia cars registrations on the French market reported a 1.7 percent decrease down to 56,281 units, compared to 57,241 units between January and August 2011.Dacia company was taken over by Renault in 1999. ...
Healthcare : Ponta government promises to IMF: smaller medical service package and higher health contribution “if necessary”
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Ponta’s government promises IMF to reduce medical services from the basic insurance package and takes into account the increase of contribution paid by the people to social health insurance. The latest version of the letter of intention with IMF also mentions the beginning of 2013 as deadline for the application of additional payments following Parliamentary elections in December and the introduction of the health law in ...
Health Ministry: European money for surgeries in rural areas
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The medical staff that own or intend to set up surgeries in rural areas as well as the medical companies in these areas can get nonrefundable financing for the activity they carry out through the agency of the National Programme for Rural Development, which is implemented by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, informs the Ministry of Health in a release.According to the above-mentioned source, the sum offered through this programme is 134,668,992 ...
Real estate: Prices for Bucharest old flats keep dropping
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The average prices for the Bucharest old flats dropped by up to 3.5 percent in Aug. from July, except for the four-room - or three-bedroom - flats that cost by 6 percent more, shows a monthly monitoring report of advertising website AnunturiParticulari.ro.The average price for a single-room flat in the Capital hit a little over 35,100 euros in Aug., by 2 percent less than in July and down 3 percent over the past 12 months from nearly 36,300 euros.The ...
Telecom.IT : Primary telecom spectrum auction to start on Sept. 10
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The primary telecom spectrum auction where five telecommunications operators have qualified will start on Sept. 10, 2012, and the results will be announced in October, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) said.'The operators participating in the auction are 2K Telecom, Cosmote Romanian Mobile Telecommunications, Orange Romania, RCS & RDS and Vodafone Romania,' the ANCOM release says.In the first primary round, ...
Draft revision regarding authorization regime for electronic communications networks, services
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The National Communications Management and Regulatory Authority (ANCOM) is proposing the revision of the general authorization regime for the provision of electronic communications networks and services, so as to fix certain deficiencies or ambiguities that have surfaced in practice.According to a press release from ANCOM, the most important amendments and add-ons relate to matters concerning the security and integrity of electronic communications networks and ...
One third of local medical companies are interested in mobile IT solutions
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
One-third of the private local medical companies are interested in the implementation of mobile IT solutions for patient data management, such as SAP Electronic Medical Record (EMR), according to a study conducted by SAP Romania.In addition, nearly 7 percent of the polled companies are willing to install an integrated IT system to manage the patients' data in the coming 12 months.SAP provides the local companies with integrated solutions devoted to the ...
Mobile termination rates slashed 24 pct as of Sept. 1, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The upper mobile interconnection rates charged by mobile network operators will decrease by 24% beginning September 1, 2012, to 3.07 eurocent per minute, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) announced on Thursday.This is the second step this year in a move to lower mobile interconnection rates after the one in March 2012, when rates were cut by 19 - 30 pct.According to ANCOM the operators subject to this ...
Trade: Romania importing 8 times more pork than shipping
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Romania imported 45,498 tons of pork in the five months of this year, eight times more than the shipments made over the same period, show figures supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Friday.Pork imports totalled more than 77 million euros Jan. to May, up from 8.033 million euros made from exports in the five months for a quantity of 5,369 tons of pork, either fresh or refrigerated.The biggest quantities of pork were imported ...
Infrastructures:New air route opening procedure, first for Romania
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The Cluj County Council and Cluj-Napoca International Airport (centre-west) are announcing the launch of the acquisition procedure through public selection of bids on granting financial aid to open new air routes.The routes had in view in a first phase are Cluj - Brussels (Charleroi, Belgium) and Cluj - Weeze Nierderhein (Dusseldorf - Germany). 'The object of the contracts to be concluded is the airlines' provision of passenger air transport services on ...
Unchanged GDP share of national road authority's revised budget
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The revised budget of the Romanian National Company of Motorways and National Roads (CNADNR) went upwards in nominal terms from the budget execution last year and remains constant as GDP share, said the Ministry of Public Finance (MPF) in response to media information that CNADNR's allocations for investment projects had been reduced.According to MFP, the analysis of budget execution data for the first eight months of 2012 shows that the opened budget loans represent ...
Cars : 2012 Car Scrappage Scheme: over 37,000 cars older than 10 years, scrapped in 5 months
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Over 37,000 vehicles older than 10 years have been scrapped through the Car Scrappage Scheme so far, while another 8,354 new cars have been purchased, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry /MMP/ has announced.Official data show that in five months, from April 3 to August 29, 2012, within the 2012 Scrappage Scheme, as many as 37,072 vehicles were scrapped, and 8,354 cars were bought, of which 3,998 domestically made.This year, the Environment Fund ...
Carmaker Dacia's exports to Germany feed Renault's net profit in Romania
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Romania's Ambassador in Berlin Lazar Comanescu says that one can currently speak of a revival of Romania -Germany economic relations, mentioning in this context that exports of the Dacia Duster crossover SUV to Germany have contributed to the net profit of Renault Dacia in Romania.He referred, in the context, to the powerful boost for the two countries' economic relations, adding that Germany is Romania's main economic partner.According to Comanescu, ...
Agriculture : Romania's agricultural trade deficit, down 47.5pct Jan.-May, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Romania's agricultural trade deficit declined 47.5 percent in the first five months of 2012, to 318.04 million euros, compared with 606.7 million euros in the first five months of 2011, according to data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.Romania's intra and extra-community agricultural trade exceeded 1.46 billion euros as of end-May 2012, with maize, wheat and cigarettes having grossed out the most.While in the first five ...
About one million Romanian farmers should abandon subsistence farming by 2020
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
By 2020, about one million farmers will have to abandon subsistence farming, which will become increasingly unprofitable, and retrain for jobs in the field of industry, construction and services, according to a study conducted by the Romanian Centre for Economic Policies (CRPE).'In order for this process to run without entailing a huge redeployment of people and also in order to bring the Romanian countryside closer to the 21st century, a minimum of infrastructure in ...
Sunflower production might decline by 40-45 pct
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The sunflower production might plunge by 40-45 percent due to drought that hit the country this summer and as regards the seed oil content, the estimated decline is of 3-4 percent so far, according to the agricultural producers.The officials of the Agriculture Ministry are optimistic that the domestic oil consumption will be ensured, despite the unfavourable weather conditions having severely damaged the biggest part of Romania's crops.'If we record an ...
This summer's drought halves honey production
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The honey production will decline by half in 2012 compared to 2011 because of drought, with the quantity ranging from 10,000 to 12,000 tons, Romanian Beekeepers Association (ACAR) President Ioan Fetea told Agerpres.'At present, the honey production is below 40-45 percent out of the quantity obtained last year, as drought has severely affected the crops of canola, sunflower and acacia. For this year we estimate a production of 10,000-12,000 tons of honey, considering ...