Main Impediments for a Successful Absorption of EU-Funds Johannes Becker Bucharest, 12.6.2018

Situation today Two thirds of the period 2014 – 2020 have passed; Absorption of EU-Funds extremely low: 4,91% without Rural Development 10,07% including Rural Development Biggest problems to be found in programs for Human Capital and Regional Development Romania risks to definitely lose about 3 bn Euro EU-Funds in 2018; Highest number of fraud investigations related to EU-Funds; National State Aid programs for funding of projects were stopped in early 2017;

Main reasons Lack of political will, delayed decisions; Instability; Conflicts between authorities; Legislative changes that obstruct EU-funded projects; Needlessly complicated procedures; Technical resasons, such as: MySMIS; Management Authorities; Ex-ante conditions; Reallocation; etc.

Ministers for EU-Funds in the past three years   Until 03/2015: Eugen Teodorovici 03/2015 – 12/2015: Marius Nica 12/2015 – 04/2016: Aura Raducu 04/2016 – 10/2016: Cristian Ghinea 10/2016 – 12/2016: Dragos Dinu 12/2016 – 02/2017: Mihaela Toader 02/2017 – 10/2017: Rovana Plumb 10/2017 – 01/2018: Marius Nica 01/2018 - ?: Rovana Plumb

Main reasons Lack of political will; Instability; Conflicts between authorities; Legislative changes that obstruct EU-funded projects; Needlessly complicated procedures; Technical resasons, such as: MySMIS; Management Authorities; Ex-ante conditions; Reallocation; etc.

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