Government spokesman Dan Carbunaru said on Wednesday that he could not comment on private company OMV Petrom’s view that it would not pay the solidarity tax, but he assured that Romanian law would be respected regardless. about which “subject we are discussing”, reports News.ro.

• “I will not comment on the public statements of some private companies, but I can assure you that Romanian legislation will be respected, regardless of which company we are talking about.
• ANAF is currently conducting an audit of this company and we await the outcome of that audit.
• In addition, based on official announcements that the companies covered by this legislation, which is nothing more than a transposition of our legislation adopted at the European level, which is binding on all member states, including Romania.
• These reports will be submitted during the year, most likely in June, but until then we are waiting for the results of the inspections carried out by the competent authorities so that we will have more details at the end.” declared Dan Carbunaruasked at the end of Wednesday’s Executive Committee meeting that OMV had said it would not pay solidarity tax.

Answering a question about the control carried out by the National Agency for Mineral Resources, Karbunaru explained that it was an inspection related to the deep-sea projects that OMV Petrom is carrying out with the aim of extracting natural gas from the Black Sea.

• “The inspection conducted by the National Mineral Resources Agency at this enterprise has nothing to do with the topic of solidarity tax. This is related to the deep-sea projects that this company is considering in the Black Sea for the exploitation of natural gas, and after the completion of these inspections, this institution of the Romanian state will be able to present its findings. At the moment, I cannot provide more details related to the ongoing investigation,” Carbonaru added.

Financial director and member of the board of OMV Petrom, Alina Popa, said on February 2 that OMV does not have a solidarity tax in our country, but if ANAF comes to a different conclusion, the company will pay. She also said that earlier this year, ANAF conducted an audit to verify the turnover and its structure.