Automotive
CNADNR To Award EUR204M Road Maintenance Contracts In Feb 2012
Romania’s national roads authority CNADNR will award in February four road maintenance contracts, estimated at 875.55 million lei (EUR204 million), VAT excluded.
Romania To Raise RCA Compensation Limits By Over 30% In 2012
The maximum limits on compensation for Romanian mandatory car insurance policies (RCA) will be raised on January 1 by 33.3%, to EUR1 million, for material damage from traffic accidents, and...
Romania To Criminalize DUI With 0.05% Blood Alcohol Content
The legal limit at which driving under the influence in Romania becomes a criminal offense (from a less serious contravention) will be reduced from 0.08% to 0.05%, as per an amendment to the...
Traffic Police To Record Conversations With Pulled-Over Drivers
The conversations of Romanian police and drivers stopped for traffic violations will be recorded and used as evidence in case the fines are challenged in court, through a system currently in...
Corporate Sales Drive Diesel Cars Market Share Up
Dealers sold almost 20% more diesel cars in the first eleven months of 2011 than in the same time of last year, according to the data supplied by the Romanian Association of Automotive Manuf...
Transport Ministry Spent EUR400M To Rehabilitate 489 Km Of Roads In 2011
The Romanian Transport Ministry completed rehabilitation works on 489 kilometers of national roads this year, spending about EUR400 million, according to the data supplied by the institution...
Finance Minister Says Ford Not Meeting Its End Of The Bargain To Get State Aid
Ford Romania, the second-largest car manufacturer present in Romania, which owns the Craiova plant, will receive the state aid that the Romanian government has committed to only when the Ame...
CFR Awards RON3.2M Bridge Repair Contract
Romanian railway administrator CFR SA awarded a 3.2 million lei (about EUR753,000) contract to constructor West Star to upgrade a bridge in eastern Romania, CFR said in a press release Tuesd...
Audit Authority Orders Prahova, Dambovita Counties To Return EU Funds Of Over EUR5M
The National Audit Authority within Romania’s Court of Accounts has instructed the Prahova and Dambovita County Councils to return more than EUR5 million in European funds, used to rehabilit...