End-November, payments from the EC totaled EUR1.867 billion.
According to data on the website of the Authority for Coordinating Structural Instruments ACIS, reimbursements totaled 337 million lei (EUR4.37 billion) in December.
EU fund absorption rate stood at 14.92%, or EUR2.965 billion end-December, from 10.69% end-November.
National payments in lei to EU beneficiaries set at RON20.972 billion end-December, namely 21.85% of all EU’s inflow for 2007-2013, compared with RON20.062 billion, or 20.8%, end-November.
The number of approved EU-funded projects set at 9,222 end-December, totaling RON109.656 billion.
Romania has been allotted EUR20 billion in structural funds for 2007-2013, which could be spent by the end of 2015.