The list includes projects for local infrastructure, environment protection, road and highway construction, for which the European Union’s financial contribution makes up more than half of the total, or EUR4.7 billion of the total EUR7.3 billion.
Most of these projects, signed last year or this spring, are at slightly above 0% completion, while projects signed in 2009 or 2010 rarely have been implemented more than 1%. Work on projects signed in 2008 is further along, but still not higher than 50% completion.
All these projects must be finished in 2012-2015.
More than half the projects selected by the Government are for the rehabilitation and expansion of water and sewage systems, and most of these, signed last year or early this year, are still at square one. The list includes projects in:
– Arad: worth EUR139.5 million, signed in 2010 and due in 2013; the goal is to bring it from 0% to 10% completion by the end of next year;
– Iasi: EUR141.7 million, 2010-2013, from 1.2% to 14.2%;
– Buzau: EUR99.3 million, 2011-2014, from 0% to 5%;
– Timis: EUR118.8 million, 2011-2014, from 0 to 10%;
– Covasna: EUR86.5 million, 2011-2014, from 0 to 10%;
– Hunedoara: EUR40 million, 2011-2015, from 0.16% to 10%;
– Neamt: EUR107.6 million, 2011-2013, from 0% to 10%;
– Satu Mare: EUR102.9 million, 2011-2015, from 0% to 10%;
– Sibiu: EUR100 million, 2011-2014, from 0% to 10.54%;
– Mures: EUR110 million, 2011-2015, from 0% to 10%;
– Bihor: EUR83.2 million, 2011-2014, from 0% to 5%;
– Prahova: EUR162.7 million, 2011-2014, from 0% to 5%;
– Botosani: EUR102.4 million, 2011-2015, from 0% to 5%;
– Bacau: EUR117.9 million, 2011-2013, from 0% to 5%;
– Galati: EUR129.8 million, 2011-2014, from 0% to 5%;
– Dolj: EUR150.2 million, 2011-2014, from 0% to 5%;
– Valcea: EUR98.8 million, from 0% to 5%.
Projects that have passed the 1% completion mark are in the counties:
– Braila: EUR95,7 million, 2010-2014, from 1.5% to 16.5%;
– Ilfov: EUR76,3 million, 2010-2014, from 1.30% to 11.30%;
– Alba: EUR102 million, 2010-2014, from 1.5% to 11%;
– Suceava: EUR119 million, 2011-2014, from 3.2% to 10.2%;
– Dambovita: EUR140 million, 2010-2013, from 3% to 13%;
– Teleorman: EUR122 million, 2009-2013, from 6% to 16%;
– Brasov: EUR189.3 million, 2009-2015, from 2.76% to 25%;
– Bistrita-Nasaud: EUR83.2 million, 2010-2013, from 5.16% to 30%;
– Vrancea: EUR107 million, 2010-2014, from 5.5% to 35%.
Projects with more progress, although limited to about 50% completion, despite being begun three years ago, are those in the following counties and regions:
– Tulcea: EUR113,7 million, 2008-2013, from 36% to 54%;
– Gorj: EUR90.7 million, 2008-2012, from 22% to 64%;
– Olt: EUR72.7 million, 2009-2013, from 38.6% to 61.4%;
– Giurgiu: EUR71.5 million, 2008-2013, from 59.7% to 75%;
– Calarasi: EUR99.4 million, 2008-2013, from 42% to 62%;
– Cluj: EUR196,9 million, 2008-2013, from 38.5% to 66.3%;
– Constanta-Ialomita: EUR192.3 million, 2010-2015, from 4.6% to 24.6%;
– Turda: EUR79.9 million, 2008-2013, from 45.4% to 65%;
– Medias: EUR89.9 million, 2008-2013, from 25.8% to 54%.
Projects for an integrated waste management system, that have been stuck at extremely low levels of completion for about a year, but which the Government believes it will succeed in pushing to more than 50% are in the counties:
– Mures: EUR45.2 million, 2010-2012, from 0.34% to 87%;
– Neamt: EUR33,4 million, 2011-2014, from 0.17% to 59.3%;
– Cluj: EUR60.6 million, 2011-2014, from 0.06% to 60.7%;
– Sibiu: EUR22,6 million, 2010-2013, from 0.75% to 65.8%;
– Vrancea: EUR36,5 million, 2009-2013, from 1.6% to 77.3%;
– Giurgiu: EUR26.7 million, 2009-2013, from 14.4% to 100%;
– Suceava: EUR51.7 million, 2011-2014, from 29.4% to 30.7%;
– Bistrita-Nasaud: EUR43.6 million, 2009-2011, from 56.3% to 100%;
– Arad: EUR29.6 million, 2010-2013, from 38.9% to 80.9%.
The Government will monitor EU-funded projects for heating system rehabilitation in the following cities:
– Iasi: EUR61,2 million, 2010-2013, from 0.1% to 11.3%;
– Timisoara: EUR58.3 million, 2010-2013, from 0.66% to 12%;
– Oradea: EUR77.7 million, 2011-2014, from 0% to 10%;
– Ramnicu-Valcea: EUR59.3 million, 2011-2013, from 0% to 10%;
– Bacau: EUR63.2 million, 2010-2013, from 8,9% to 25%.
The list also includes important highway construction projects that must be finished by the end of next year:
– Cernavoda-Constanta highway: EUR432.3 million, 2009-2012, with the Cernavoda-Medgidia segment only 5% completed and the Medgidia-Constanta segment 65% completed;
– Constanta ringroad: EUR225.5 million, 2009-2012, 63%
– Arad-Timisoara highway: EUR388.2 million, 2010-2012, 83%.
Additionally, the Government will monitor projects signed this fall, due to be completed in the second quarter of 2013, and which the authorities aim to bring up to 40% completion by the end of next year: the highway sections Orastie-Sibiu (EUR745.5 million) and Nadlac-Arad (EUR308.2 million).
The list of priority projects also includes the rehabilitation of three road sections that the Government hopes will reach 70-80% completion next year:
– DN 24 at Galati-Vaslui county border: EUR147.9 million, 2010-2013, currently at 22%;
– DN 1H Zalau-Alesd: EUR114 million, 2011-2013, 2%
– DN 6 Alexandria-Craiova: EUR228.2 million, 2011-2013, 3.95%.
Recently, both President Traian Basescu and Prime Minister Emil Boc have said that the priority in next year’s budget will be financing investment projects, as well as putting them in better order, to assist Romania’s emergence from the crisis.