The European Commission expects that “Romania will continue to work on the implementation of the reform” of the state pension system, which “will be evaluated in the context of the future payment requests” of the country under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNNR), the source said. the community’s executive committee said Friday.

The ceiling of 9.4% of GDP for pension costs “is part of a measure to reform the state pension system. This measure involves the adoption of a new law on the pension system,” which “will replace the current pension law (Law 127/2019).”

“The annex to the Council’s implementing decision approving the evaluation of Romania’s plan states that “One of the objectives of the new law should be to maintain stable total public pension expenditure (including all existing public pension schemes) over the long term (2022-2070). ) to 9.4% of GDP,” the sources said.

They remind that the approval of Romania’s PNRR “provides the main milestones and targets, legally binding, related to the various reforms and investments that Romania must fulfill in order to receive the corresponding payments”.

The sources also said that according to the annex to the implementation decision of the Council on the approval of the PNRR of Romania, the deadline for the adoption of the new pension law is the first quarter of 2023, and the assessment of the implementation of this stage will be carried out by the government. Commission in the context of the request of the fourth payment claim.

Sources in the commission also note that “a special milestone, which has a deadline until the end of this year, is related to the review of special pensions, which also include the military.” “This is part of the overall reform of the state pension system, which is a key element of Romania’s PNRR. Satisfactory completion of this phase will be assessed in the context of the third payment request,” sources in Brussels said.

At the end of October, Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke said that after discussions in Brussels, it was concluded that “adjustments” were needed to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), indicating that there was no time for a review as it would be a waste of time and resources.

He also reported that “in principle” the planned PNRR ceiling for pensions of 9.4% of GDP was discussed.

“I agreed with the President (Ursula von der Leyen, EC President – no) that this indicator can be replaced by fiscal discipline indicators based on World Bank research and the technical details related to how this will be created at the level of profile commission,” said the prime minister.

On Sunday, PSD President Marcel Çolaku announced that on December 31, the discussion on the topic of special pensions will be closed due to a bill initiated by the Ministry of Labor, approved by the government and submitted to the parliament for adoption. , stressing that the pension reform envisaged by the PNRR will not be carried out through an emergency resolution. (Source: Agerpres)