1. PANEL 1 ESI Funds 2014-2020 and best practice Romania’s experience

2. Impact of Cohesion Policy in Romania from the perspective of past decade

3. The impact on GDP

4. Household consumption
2010 prices, billion Lei

5. Total investments 2010 prices, billion Lei

6. Unemployment rate

7. Employment

8. Average monthly salary lei

9. Transport infrastructure Investments in environment
Progress end 2015 (1) Indicators at the level of NSRF priority themes /vs. targets
Transport infrastructure
Railway infrastructure rehabilitated: 127,05 Km/
vs. 209,185 Km
New TEN-T road infrastructure:
312,44 Km/
vs. 372,945 Km
TEN-T road infrastructure rehabilitated: 289,29 Km /
vs. 302,796 Km
County road infrastructure rehabilitated: ,95 Km/
vs. 877 Km
City road infrastructure rehabilitated: 198,43 Km/
vs. 325 Km
Investments in environment
No. of new/ rehabilitated wastewater treatment plants: 107/
vs. 200
No. of projects for renewable
energy: 32/
vs. 30
No. of localities with new/ rehabilitated water facilities in regional system: 312/
vs. 430
New integrated system for waste management: 1/
vs. 37
Social infrastructure
No. of Medical Units rehabilitated: 58/
vs. 62
No. of Social centers rehabilitated: 172 /
vs.223
No. of beneficiaries for social infrastructure rehabilitated:
/ vs
No. of beneficiaries for pre- university education infrastructure rehabilitated:
/ vs

10. Progress end 2015 (2) Indicators at the level of NSRF priority themes /vs. targets
Teritorial development
No. of integrated urban development plans (PIDU) accepted (No.): 94/ vs. 30
No. of urban development projects (No.): 352/
vs. 60
No. of beneficiaries for PIDU projects: / vs
Development of Human Capital
New jobs created : (ROP) (SOP HRD) (SOP C) = / vs
Education staff trained:
pers. / vs
No. of participants at the vulnerable groups programmes: / vs
No. of long-term unemployed participants in integrated programmes:
/ vs
Increasing competitiveness
No. of microenterprises supported: 1 976/ vs
No. of SMEs assisted: 2 729/ vs
No. of tourists in the rehabilitated accommodation structures: / vs
No. of turism projects contracted: 233/
vs. 221

11. Investments by major fields (based on amounts declared by December 2015 )

12. Total no of projects/ region
Investments in the regions
North
East
1848
North West
2335
Total no of projects/ region
16 002
Source: SMIS
Center
2007
West
1226
South East
1500
South
1618
South-West
1343
Bucharest Ilfov
4125

13. Experience with preparation of Partnership agreement, operational programmes
In period, there will be financed investments under all 11 Thematic Objectives established through the European regulation in order to support the accomplishment of targets assumed by Romania in line with Europe Strategy, using ESI Funds.
The selection of the thematic objectives was made taking into account their contribution to the development of different sectors to reduce the gaps between regions and between Ro and other Member States:
competitiveness
people and society
infrastructure
resources
administration and governance

14. Partnership Agreement 2014-2020 Main steps for approval
1 of April 2014 – the official version of the PA was sent to the COM through SFC 2014
2 of June 2014 – the Romanian authorities received the COM comments on PA
7 July 2014 – the Romanian authorities sent the revised PA version to COM through SFC 2014
6 August 2014 – approval decision (Bx/ /C(2014) 5515 final)
Romania was the eleventh MS that received the approval of the PA

15. Operational programmes
All operational programmes are approved:
Most deprived persons
28 November 2014
Technical Assistance
18 December 2014
Competitiveness
19 December 2014
Human Capital
25 February 2015
Administrative Capacity
Rural Development
26 May 2015
Regional
24 June 2015
Large Infrastructure
10 July 2015
Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
25 November 2015

16. ETC Programmes
For the period , Romania participates in the following ETC Programmes:
Interreg V-A Romania Bulgaria Programme
Interreg V-A Romania Hungary Programme
Joint Operational Programme Romania – Ukraine
Joint Operational Programme Romania – Republic of Moldova
IPA  Cross-border Cooperation Programme Romania - Serbia
Joint Operational Programme Black Sea Basin
Danube Programme
Hungary – Slovacia – Romania – Ukraine Programme
URBACT III Programme
ESPON 2020 Programme
INTERREG EUROPE Programme
INTERACT III Programme

17. Institutional architecture Managing Authorities and Operational Programmes 2014- 2020

18. The first calls The status of launching the calls in 2015 and for 2016-2017
Program Operațional
UE allocation
(mil. euro)
Applicant guides under public consultation
2015
Open calls
Procentage of the launched calls 2015 %
N0.
of launched calls 2016
Procentage of the allocation to be launched 2016
No. of calls 2017
Large Infrastructure
9.418,52 21 23
98,5 3
Competitiveness
1.329,79 11 8
30,79 17
69,21
Human Capital
4.326,84 6 48
47,17 12
Technical Assistance
212,77 1 NA
continuous
Regional
6.600,00 33
95,5
Administrative Capacity
553,19 5 2 10 60
Fisheries and maritime affairs
168,42 27
38,48 58
Most deprived persons
441 16
TOTAL
23050,53 50
158
82,72 79

19. ETC Programmes

20. Effective implementation and key factors for successful usage of ESIF
Management and the overall coordination of the implementation funds through:
unitary management decisions on programming and implementation of funds and through a shortened decision making process;
synergy - structures that will not be replicated for each management authority;
shorter administrative deadlines;
unitary approach in terms of implementation according to standardized norms;
focus of expertise and a better management of human resources.

21. Sound implementation of 2014-2020 programming period
Starting the sound implementation of programming period represents one of the main priorities, thus:
the framework agreements for attributions delegation are being drafted
the description of the management and control systems is being prepared
As far as the management system is concerned, simplification and effective coordination are the guiding principles of the new institutional architecture that will manage ESI Funds

22. the Ministry of European Funds takes operational measures of a horizontal nature to applying modern management principles, based on performance
Thus, the legal provisions impose a semestrial evaluation of the personnel involved in the management of EU funds on a basis of performance indicators
a coordination mechanism with structures on three levels (strategic committee, thematic inter- institutional, operational), is set up in order to ensure the coherence of the interventions, complementarities and synergies in the programming and implementation stages.

23. In order to provide a uniform and equitable rule applying to the FESI implementation for , there were adopted:
the national rules on the eligibility of expenditure
the financial flow mechanism
Regarding the IT system, Romania is currently developing SMIS and MySMIS2014
the modules are in various stages of analysis, development and testing, and it will operational gradually this year
This system will simplify the procedures as well as diminish the volume of documents submitted by the beneficiaries.