Source: Romanian Ministry of European Affairs

More statistics on absorption rates of Structural and Cohesion Funds in Romania are available here.

The Romanian Ministry of Regional Development adopted a Memorandum on the neccesary steps to start the process of regionalisation-decentralisation across the country. One of the goals of the regionalisation-decentralisation process is to have regional management structures for structural and cohesion funds. The newly set up regions will also have competences in the following fields: economic development, management of social protection programmes, cultural development, evelopment of pre-university technical and vocational education at the regional level, etc.

Press release

Further to the positive results noticed following the European Commission’s audit mission held from January 29 to February 1, 2013, EU representatives have agreed to unlock SOP HRD and resume payments to Romania. In this context, the European Commission will resume payments to Romania in the next days, for the reimbursement applications submitted in December 2012, amounting to 148 million euro, with enforcement of temporary financial corrections of 25% as agreed with the Romanian side.

More statistics available here.