Substantiation selected needs to be covered by the rural development strategy in Romania 2014 2020 and selecting objectives, priorities and areas of intervention based on SWOT analysis and needs analysis.

Agerpres - ROMANIAN ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, November 4 -
10, 2013, No. 45

Government Decision no. 453/10.07.2013 (“GD 453/2013”) on amending and supplementing the appendix to Government Decision no. 274/2013 on granting de minimis state aid for investments made by small and medium enterprises (“GD 274/2013”) has been published. 

GD 453/2013 introduces the following main amendments:

APDRP (Paying Agency for Rural Development and Fisheries) has announced the launching of a new call for projects under Measure 121 of the National Rural Development Programme (PNDR). This new session will start on June 25 and will close on July 31, 2013. Some 50 million euro are available for investments in (smaller family) farms, with economic size of 2-50 ESU, the maximum grant being 50,000 euro for projects with a maximun eligible value of 125,000 euro.

The National Programme for Rural Development (PNDR) 2014-2020 will have a smaller number of measures than the previous one, and accessing them will be easier, as promised by Nicolae Popa, deputy director of APDRP paying agency. The new PNDR should be finished by the end of this year and it should be better than the previous one, given that one must learn from the mistakes and dissatisfactions of the past years.

Promotion and funding instruments

Future EU structural and cohesion policy turn three priorty goals: convergence, regional capacity to meet competition  and employment, and european economical cooperation.