At Wednesday’s meeting, the government is expected to approve a number of documents, including Romania’s Strategy for Non-Energy Mineral Resources for the period 2023-2035.

“The strategy establishes general development directions, goals, proposed measures, international standards for sustainable mining and how activities carried out in the field of non-energy mineral resources can contribute to achieving the goals of sustainable development. Priorities are represented by: geological research, inventory and assessment of critical raw materials, development and in-depth processing of non-energy mineral resources, environmental restoration and socio-economic restoration, valorization of secondary resources from tailings and settling tanks, use of geothermal waters,” the project’s rationale says.

A draft emergency resolution on establishing social protection measures and amending regulations in the field of social assistance will also be adopted.

“The project provides for the provision of social protection measures in the cold season for vulnerable categories of the population, whose rights to pensions or other payments or whose incomes have increased on the basis of GEO No. 168/2022 and HG No. …, established for this reason in accordance with the condition provided for Law No. 226/2021 on Social Protection Measures for Vulnerable Energy Consumers Thus, for the situation in which debits were established, they will be exempted from payment by issuing a new decision of the Executive Director of the Agency for Payments and Social Inspection,” the explanatory note reads.

Another draft of the emergency decree GEO No. 158/2005 on leave and social health insurance will be amended and supplemented.

“The provisions provided for in this order are aimed at ensuring a balance between the treatment of insured persons who are employed and those who are insured at will, as well as the protection of the insured through the effective management of the Fund’s budget by establishing measures which consist mainly of the efficiency of the activity of providing, as well as the responsibility of the insured beneficiaries of leave leaves. Thus, it is regulated in a non-discriminatory manner that all natural persons who do not receive income from wages can, at will, be insured on the contract system in order to receive leave and assistance, only in within the limits of the amount included in the tax return submitted for the payment of the social health insurance contribution in accordance with Law No. 227/2015 on the Fiscal Code, as amended, and it cannot exceed the value of 3 times the minimum gross base for each country ga is paid parts established in accordance with legislation a”, says the justification of the project.

At the same meeting, a draft of an emergency order on amending the Law on National Education No. 1/2011 and extending some deadlines will be adopted.

“The proposed project covers the legislative vacuum regarding the application of European recommendations and measures taken by Romania at the national and international levels regarding educational policy in the field of academic mobility and the participation of young Romanians in full educational programs. Amending the provisions of part (10) of Article 205 of Law 1/2011, as amended, allows the Ministry of Education to annually grant scholarships for university internships and postgraduate education, full master’s and doctoral internships, postgraduate internships and research abroad, from the funds created for this purpose. These scholarships are obtained through a competition organized at the national level. The number, directions, conditions of financing and the procedure for granting scholarships are established by the order of the Minister of Education. the order is supplemented with the application of the provisions of the legislation from the day of their issuance,” the explanatory note says.

The executive will also adopt a draft law on providing a national framework for the interaction between the information systems of the European Union in the field of borders and visas, police and judicial cooperation and asylum and migration.

According to the justification, this law provides a national basis for the interaction between the information systems of the European Union in the field of borders and visas, police and judicial cooperation, as well as asylum and migration, in the application of certain provisions contained in European regulations.

The Government will also decide on the approval of the Protocol signed in Iasi on November 10, 2022, on amending the Agreement between the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Moldova on the regulation of the construction of aqueducts, signed in Chisinau on May 20, 2021.

With the help of the Memorandum, the executive will approve the start of a process of informing the European Commission and public consultations based on proposals for reforms and investments in the new REPowerEU chapter of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.

The memorandum will also define the powers of the Ministry of Economy, the national state body with powers in the field of industrial policy, to determine funding opportunities through the mechanism of the state aid scheme for the production of batteries for electric vehicles.

The government will also adopt a memorandum on the topic of including the measure “De minimis aid scheme – Support for the implementation of projects related to the construction of waste processing plants” in the form of non-refundable funds from the revenues of the Ecological Fund, in the economic, budgetary and financial policy of the Romanian state.