The Central Regional Program (PR) has received positive approval from the European Commission (EC) for funding of around 1.384 billion euros, after West PR, South-Muntenia PR, North-West PR, South-West PR previously received approval from Oltenia, PR South- East and PR North-East, the Ministry of European Investments and Projects (MIPE) reports, Agerpres reports.

According to the cited source, the total cost of the eight programs exceeds 11 billion euros, they cover the period 2021-2027 and are designed to allow the transfer of administrative and financial powers from the central government level. administration to the level of state administration of administrative-territorial units together with the financial resources necessary for their implementation.

“With a population of 2.3 million residents, the counties included in the territory of the Center registered a demographic decline of 13% in the period 2000-2021. In this situation, the underfunding of education has delayed the modernization of the education system and the provision of From this point of view, the educational offer needs to be coordinated with the needs of employers in skills and specializations, which will contribute to increasing the competitiveness of the regional economy and ensure equal chances of access to quality education for all children. .This is just one of two perspectives.Many small urban and rural settlements have fragile economic situations that are rapidly deteriorating and the €1.38 billion allocated through the Regional Program will go exactly where it is needed to capitalize on the economic potential, specific for the region,” said relevant minister Marcel Bolosh.

In the case of the Central Regional Program, the total amount of financial allocations is 1,384,456,339 euros and supports, through specific funding priorities, the transformation of the region into a competitive region through innovation and dynamic enterprises for the intelligent economy (total allocations of 270.57 million euros), digital (€80.93 million), environmentally friendly communities (€233.78 million), sustainable (€233.78 million) and affordable urban mobility (€197.68 million), educated region (€93.17 million) , sustainable tourism (30.89 million euros). ) and attractive tourism (185.36 million euros).

In addition, a total budget of €58.25 million is provided for the technical assistance intervention.

MIPE notes the recent signing of the Partnership Agreement between the Government of Romania and the European Commission, a strategic document covering cohesion and maritime and fisheries policy funds for the 2021-2027 programming. period. Thus, in the third financial program, through which the Romanian state will benefit from European funds, 16 programs will be implemented, through which more than 31 billion euros will be allocated to Romania.

The first program approved by the European executive for the Cohesion Policy for 2021-2027 was the Technical Assistance Program on August 23 with an allocation of 960 million euros.

Further, the Ministry of European Investment Projects aims to complete the process of official coordination and approval of all programs for 2021-2027 by the end of the current year.

At the end of June, the Government approved an emergency resolution that supplements the legal framework necessary for the implementation by Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) of the powers arising from the implementation of quality management powers (QM) also in the field of regional development. both in the field of prevention, detection and punishment of violations.

The regulatory act provides for the full functioning of the ADR as soon as possible in order to avoid possible delays in launching the implementation of regional programs and, at the same time, the risk of attracting non-returnable external funds for these purposes. Thanks to the provided legislative decisions, the Regulation allows decisions made by the ADR in the process of management and control of regional programs to have binding legal force for applicants, beneficiaries or other subjects with whom they enter into legal relations during the performance of their functions.