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The Austrian company GBI Consulting will have a new PNDR on a contract of 3.5 million euro
The consultancy company GBI Consulting together with eight institutes and universities in Romania will have the National Programme for Rural Development (PNDR) for the period 2014-2020 and the first draft of the programme will be finalised in October this yar, stated for Agerpress the state secretary in the ministry of agriculture Achim Irimescu.
‘This week we signed with the Austrian company GBI Consulting the contract for the drawing up of the National Programme of Rural Development 2014 -2020 and we will have a first draft in Octobr. We are a little delayed with the drawing up of the programme due to the issues encountered in the process of selection of the consultancy company, but I appreciate that January 2014 will be the month when we can send to the European Commission the first draft of PNDR. The selected company is specialised in this domain, drawing up such programmes for other states in the European Union. One of the consultants in this company is the former European commissionaire for agriculture Franz Fischler’ Irimescu said.
He said that until the finalisation of the whole document, the ministry of agriculture will send to the European Commission social analyses, economic and swot analyses as they are made.
We agreed with the European Commission that as we make those economic and social analyses, the swot analysis and the other evaluations for PNDR which could tell us which are Romania’s priorities, we will traslate and send to evaluation. The PNDR will have only 11 measures for the next period of 2014 – 2020, being greatly simplified against the present one, which has 25 measures.’ the official said.
According to the quoted source, the contract signed with GBI Consulting is 3.5 million euro, without VAT and will be financed with European funds.
PNDR is the instrument through which European funds are offered for private and public investments to ensure the development of the villages in Romania. The total allocation through PNDR from European Funds was of 8.12 billion euro for the period 2007-2013, but for the future programme for 2014 – 2020, Romania had its financial allocation reduced by one billion euro, down to 7.1billion euro.
Romania drew until July 2013 approximately 5 billion euro from the European funds for rural development, which represents a degree of absorption of approximately 58% of the total sum allocated through PNDR 2007-2013 according to the data offered by the Agency for Payments for Rural Development and Fishing (APDRP).
Since the starting point of the PNDR in 2008, APDRP managed 141,625 requests for financing, worth over 17.95 billion euro. Until that moment there was a selection for non-refundable financing for 87,307 projects, with a value of over 6.13 billion euro, which represents a degree of employment of 83.48% of the public funds (the financing of the European Union and the cofinancing of the Romanian government).