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MADR: Harsh winter destroyed 350,000 hectares of crops, 77 pct of rapeseed
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The harsh winter of last year destroyed nearly 350,000 hectares of crops in Romania, out of 2.57 million hectares sown last autumn, with the rapeseed crops having been the most seriously damaged because of frost, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) reports.'Out of the total area sown last autumn with wheat, rye, triticale, barely, two-row barely and rapeseed, only 2.22 million hectares are still standing. As much as 284,000 hectares of rapeseed ...
Funds in excess of 220 million euros available to modernise Romania's agricultural holdings
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Romania's Agency for Rural Development and Fishery Payments (APDRP) has over 220 million euros at its disposal, April 17 - May 31, 2012 worth of European funds to fund projects aimed at modernising agricultural holdings.Data posted on the APDRP website indicate that the non-repayable European funds available for the 9th session related to Measure 121 concerning 'Modernising agricultural holdings,' under Romania's National Rural Development Programme, is all the money ...
Real Estate : Homeowners to produce energy performance certificates upon sale or rent
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Housing owners selling or renting out such assets would have to produce an energy performance certificate upon completion of sale or rent, under a draft law passed by the Government on Wednesday. The certificate costs between RON 250 and 600 (some 57-137 euros) to issue.The draft law, amending and supplementing Law 372/2005 concerning energy performance of buildings, has been submitted to Parliament for urgent debates and approval.'The aim of this draft ...
Housing demands and prices reduced by half since 2007: Romanians looking for houses adapted to needs and budget
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The housing demand dropped by half since the beginning of the economic crisis at the end of 2007 although prices have dropped by the same percentage in this interval and the people interested are no longer looking for “dreams” but houses adapted to their needs and budget, real estate consultants say. “Owners have been selling 15% more houses in Bucharest than the overall offer promoted in 2007 and by 24% more ...
Government wants private investors for building houses to be rented out
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The National Housing Agency (ANL) will draw private investors for building houses meant to be rented by the general public, according to a national programme the Government adopted on Wednesday. 'It is a pilot project, which is carried out by the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism with the assistance of ANL. The programme will be implemented through signing contracts on leasing public works and aims to allow the access to a house of people that do not have ...
Infrastructure : Bucharest South International Airport, investment put at 220 mln euros
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The construction of the Bucharest South International Airport could be completed at mid-2014, with the total investment being estimated at 200-220 million euros, said on Wednesday Grigore Racaru, strategy and development director with Romstrade Group.Racaru told a press conference that two weeks ago the company Infra Group, with its associates Romstrade and Blue Air, signed a financial consultancy contract with Lufthansa Consulting for the project of ...
TAP Portugal Air Company comes to Romania
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Portuguese national air company TAP Portugal comes to the Romanian market with flights three times a week, as of June 30, according to presstur.com. Direct Lisbon-Bucharest flights will be operational on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 11.10 p.m., while flights from Bucharest to Lisbon will be on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 6.00 a.m. The planes are Airbus A ...
Tourism : EU funds worth 186 M euros to go to tourism development
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Payment Agency for Rural and Fishing Development (APDRP) grants about 186.5 million euros, during April 17- May 16, 2012, to those interested in investing in building pensions and the development of agro-tourism activities.Over the above mentioned time span, it opens the 7th session for lodging EU money funded projects meting the requirements of the Measurement 313: Encouragement of tourism activities of the National Rural Development Programme ...
Healthcare : National IPP survey: Attitude and perceptions regarding pregnancy interruption in Romania and the responsibility of the authorities
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
From the fourth place among European Union countries at the level of 2010, with an average of 350 – 400 pregnancy interruption per day, Romania faces a serious problem regarding the number of pregnancy interruption with almost 100,000 – 128,000 per year. The fact that 84% of the fertile women, participating in the most recent survey made by the Institute for Public Policy, IPP through its specialized division for research on site, consider that the ...
Infrastructure :Technical assistance contracts worth 16.07 million lei for development of transport master plan
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The Ministry of Transports and Infrastructure (MTI) signed two contracts, worth 16.07 million lei, on consultancy services for drawing up Romania's general transport master plan and the management of the Sectoral Operational Programme Transport with a view to improving the capability to absorb European funds, informs MTI on Thursday.According to a release issued by the ministry, the two contracts were signed on Wednesday, April 11, and are financed ...
Tunnels to link North Railway station to other Bucharest-based stations
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Governmental Decision on Wednesday April 11 approved the Understanding Memorandum between Romania's Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the Belgian Transport Ministry on the cooperation in infrastructure works to upgrade, rehabilitate and expand Bucharest area's infrastructure and transportation, signed in Bucharest, on Sept 22, 2011.The Memorandum, stipulates, inter alia, the modernization of Bucharest's railway infrastructure, and tunnels ...
Transport Ministry approves EUR 2 ml worth of intermodal project filed by Cluj Napoca Airport
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Alexandru Nazare approved an intermodal project that will get two million euros in European funding, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) informs.The project filed by the public corporation Cluj Napoca Airport for European financing under the TEN-T 2011 Annual Program is worth 2 million euros, and will be financed in equal shares from TEN-T grants and the airport's own funds.The studies ...
Cars : New vehicle registrations edge up about 18 pct in March
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The number of new vehicle registrations edged up about 18 percent in March compared with the same period of 2011, amounting to 6,871 units, the biggest rise being reported in the tractor segment (89.47 percent) and in the section of buses and minibuses (61.36 percent), reveal the statistics of the Department for Driving Licenses Regime and Vehicle Registration (DRPCIV), published on the institution's website.According to the quoted source, after the ...
Tourism : 1.203 million tourists in Bucharest in 2011
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
There were 1.203 million tourists registered in the main accommodation places in Bucharest, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics. The most check-ins were reported in September, namely 122,322 and the fewest in January, 75,941. The accommodation index ranged between 21.1 and 36.4 percent. There were 7.002 million tourists registered in Romania in the accommodation places last year. The Romanian ...
Trade : Discounts keep prices level for Easter
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Discounts upheld most of the prices level for Easter as retailers resorted to this scheme to attract the Romanian people into buying.Thus, the prices for fruit went up before Easter as much as 70 percent compared to end-February but the prices of staple food remained relatively even throughout that period, according to the food index of Ziarul Financiar newspaper, calculated based on the prices met in the hypermarkets in the capital ...
Infrastructure :Rehabilitation of Bucharest Historic Centre streets costs some 9.5-10 mln euros
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The works for the rehabilitation and restoration of the entire structure of the old road system and the entire utilities system in the 16 streets lying in Zone A of the Bucharest Historic Centre have cost some 9.5-10 million euros, not 23 million euros as the General Council had approved six years ago, City Mayor Sorin Oprescu said on presenting the results of his four years' tenure on Thursday.'The works were being unjustifiably stalled, spending had ...
TAROM introduces SkyPriority at Cluj, Timisoara, London and Amsterdam airports
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
TAROM national airline introduces SkyPriority at the airports of Cluj, Timisoara, London (Heathrow) and Amsterdam (Schiphol) after mid-May, which is a package especially created to bring benefits to FirstBusiness Class passengers and to SkyTeam Elite Plus members. According to a press release, SkyPriority package targets the Flying Blue Gold and Platinum members. The package will include the following advantages: a priority at check-in, at ...
Real estate : February 2012 construction works advance 13.4 pct in unadjusted terms
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The volume of construction works in Romania advanced 13.4 percent in unadjusted terms in February 2012, on a monthly basis, and 1.7 percent in terms adjusted for the number of business days and seasonality, according to data with the National Statistics Institute (INS).Rises were reported in new construction works, up 18.9 percent, while overhaul works were down 1.5 percent.Engineer works and residential construction were up 21.4 percent and 10.7 ...
Real estate :Prices of flats in Bucharest reach a new minimum
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
At national level, the prices required for new and old flats increased slightly in March, but in Bucharest the trend was decreasing, the price of flats reaching a new minimum, from 1,145 eurom2 according to the site imobiliare.ro. The indicator of imobiliare.ro for Bucharest showed for March an average value of 1,145 eurom2 for new and old flats, dropping by 0.3% against the previous ...
Tourism : Cruise ships start season in Danube Delta
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Danube Star cruiser opened tourism season in the Danube Delta (southeast), on Wednesday, with 77 Romanian passengers aboard, informed the master's office of the Tulcea Danube Delta harbour.The cruise boat belonging to the river navigation master's office (CNF) of Giurgiu harbour (located on the Romanian Danube River bank) anchored in Tulcea, Wednesday morning, and tourists were sailed either through the Danube Delta's channels or down town said ...