President Klaus Iohannis promulgated on Friday the law approving Government Emergency Ordinance No. 39/2018 on public-private partnerships, which regulates the conclusion, implementation and termination of public-private partnership contracts, the establishment of the purpose of the public-private partnership, namely the construction, rehabilitation and/or expansion of an asset that will belong to the public partner's assets and/or the operation of a public service. At the same time, through the new draft of normative act is repealed the law no.233/2016 regarding partnership public-private, by comparison the draft bringing additions and amendments such as: regulating the possibility of carrying out public-private partnerships and projects exclusively involving the operation of a public service, clarifying the concept of financial closure, restricting the participation of the public partner with public funds at the stage of investment implementation to 25% of the investment value, setting up within one year a special fund to finance public-private partnership contracts that fall into the category of strategic projects, removing overlaps with the legislation on public procurement and concessions. Both in case of contractual partnership public-private and in case of institutional partnership public-private, if another public entity intends to support the carrying out of the project through the assumption towards the private partner of a payment or guarantee obligation(s) for the benefit of the public partner, it may do so if the payment or guarantee obligation has been provided for in the study and in the tender documents in a clear, precise and unequivocal manner, indicating the conditions under which it can be fulfilled, as required by law.
Romanian president Nicușor Dan has called a meeting of the Supreme Council of National Defense (CSAT) to be held on Monday, June 30, at the Cotroceni Palace. The agenda will cover several key issues, including the current state and outlook of the war in Ukraine and its implications for Romania, cybersecurity, and tax evasion. The […]
The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) said that another 35 Romanian citizens and first-degree family members in Israel were evacuated and brought back to the country on Thursday, June 26. The Romanian citizens were brought to the country aboard a C-27J Spartan aircraft of the Romanian Air Forces. “As part of the ongoing complex […]
Smallest Art Fair in Town (SAT), an art fair dedicated to works on paper, will hold a second edition developed around the theme of Interrupted Realities. The works selected for SAT discuss this “acute topic of our times – that of the increasingly fractured reality in which we live,” the organizers explained. The artists whose […]
A Romanian man has been jailed for more than five years after he joined an online chat that supported plans for a terrorist attack in Leeds. Claudiu Stefan Cristea, 47, was found guilty by a jury of possessing a terrorist document following a week-long trial at Leicester Crown Court. He was arrested in February 2024 […]
Play Giurgiu, a festival for children and teenagers, will present a program of films, workshops, and other cultural activities in the southern Romania city of Giurgiu, which lacks a cinema hall. The event, taking place between June 27 and June 29, is organized by the animation festival Animest at the city's Tudor Vianu theater and […]
The cap on the commercial markup for basic foods will be extended by three months, until September 30, 2025, according to a draft emergency ordinance published on June 26 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR), Digi24 reported. According...
