Assessment of Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in Romanian

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No. Criteria Description
General criteria – Are used to determine the economic paradigm
underpinning development in Romania
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Use of MAES indicators
for EU reporting and
decision-making as
well as Beyond GDP
indicators
MAES knowledge is used to improve EU reporting
obligations as well as to inform decision and policy
making along with indicators beyond GDP such as
Ecological Footprint, Biocapacity, Global Green Economy
Index 8 .
Of all the relevant policies identified for the MAES process in Romania, the policy
assessment has covered the following sectors: Water, Marine, Forestry,
Biodiversity, Climate Change – Mitigation, Energy, Fisheries and aquaculture,
Agriculture and Rural Development, Transport, Regional Development,
Territorial Planning. In the next stage of MAES process implementation and follow-up
to the N4D project, policies related to Air, Soil, Climate Change – Adaptation, Sustainable
Development, and Tourism should also be assessed.
Due to time and capacity constraints sectoral policies have been assessed at strategic
level including national strategies and programs, action plans, environmental reports.
Nevertheless, framework ordonnances have been analyzed for the agriculture sector,
and the main law is analyzed for the forest sector since Romania does not have a forest
strategy. The policy documents analyzed for each sector are listed in Table no.2
below.
Table 2. Policy documents analyzed for MAES relevant sectors
(WWF-Romania, 2015)
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Policy sector
Analyzed policy document
Water National River Basin Management Plan 2015-2021
National Strategy
Monitoring Program for the marine environment 2014-2020
Marine
Article 12 - Technical Assessment of the MSFD 2012 obligations: reports for the Regional
Seas - Black Sea
European Strategy for the forest sector
Forestry Forest Code
National Rural Development Program 2014-2020 (forest related objectives and measures)
National Strategy
Biodiversity
Action Plan for biodiversity conservation 2014-2020 (11.12.2013)
Climate National Strategy for Romania on Climate Change 2013-2020 (Part I – Reduction of GHG
Change – emissions and growth of the natural capacity of absorption of CO2 from the atmoshpere)
Mitigation and
Adaptation National Action Plan 2016-2020 on Climate Change (Chp. 1-3) (12.2015)
Fisheries and
aquaculture
National Strategy for the fishery sector 2014-2020
National Multi-Annual Strategic Plan for aquaculture 2014-2020
Operational Program for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs 2014-2020
7 Chapter 8 of Agenda 21 (The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) calls on countries to adopt national
strategies for sustainable development (NSDS) that should build upon and harmonize the various sectoral
economic, social and environmental policies and plans that are operating in the country. This Agenda is a plan
of action for people, planet and prosperity. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets
have been agreed upon in 2015 by Member States signing the Declaration (adopted with resolution A/RES/70/1
- Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development), and demonstrate the scale and
ambition of this new universal Agenda, which builds on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what
these did not achieve. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld
8 The Global Green Economy Index (GGEI) is published by consultancy Dual Citizen LLC since 2010 and is now at
its 5th edition (2016). It measures the green economic performance and perceptions of it in 80 countries and
50 cities along four main dimensions of leadership & climate change, efficiency sectors, markets & investment
and the environment. http://dualcitizeninc.com/global-green-economy-index/