She said the ministry checked all public work contracts signed for the rehabilitation of local roads with EU money and found problems for one third of them.
“We have presented the conclusions [of the check-ups] to the prime minister, the president and we will send them to the European Commission. I am confident the ministry’s effort to check these contracts will lead to the unblocking of payments for the program’s second axis,” Udrea wrote on her blog, adding she is confident the EC will resume payments this fall.
The Government has recently decided to stop sending bills for EU fund reimbursements to Brussels. Prime Minister Emil Boc said at that time Romania will finance EU projects from the state budget and the Government will send the bills to the European Commission to recover the EU funds only after double-checking all the documents, to avoid losing EU money over faulty procedures.
Meanwhile, the Government has decided to assign EUR600 million from privatization proceeds to continue funding EU projects until the European Commission resumes payments to Romania.