Doing Business with Romania - Über die Osec

Energetic security
- Increase the energetic security by assuring the necessary energetic resources and by
limiting the dependency on imported energy resources;
- Diversify the import suppliers, energetic resources and their transportation routes;
- Increase the level of adequacy of the national transportation networks for electric
power, natural gases and oil;
- Assure the safeguard of the critical infrastructure.
Sustainable development
- Increase the energetic efficiency;;
- Promote the production of the renewable energy;
- Promote the production of electric and thermal energy in power plants with
cogeneration, especially in high efficiency cogeneration installations;
- Support the research and development activities and the dissemination of the
applicable results;
- Reduce the negative impact of the energetic sector on the environment;
- Rational and efficient use of primary energetic resources.
Competitiveness
- Develop competitive electric energy, natural gases, oil and uranium markets;
- Liberalize the energy transit and assure the permanent and non discriminatory
access of participants to the transportation and distribution networks and to the
international interconnections;
- Continue with the process of restructuration and privatization in the electric and
thermal power and natural gases sectors;
- Continue with the restructuring of the lignite sector in order to increase its profitability
and access the capital market;http://www.minind.ro/domenii_sectoare/H163-
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Timber
o In Romania, the forestry and timber industry sectors are separated
o The legal framework for forest preservation and sustainable management is provided by the
Forest Bill (Law no. 26/1996).
In this sense, the section 6 – Wood Removal – specifies that:
- the harvesting of wood products is in compliance with the provisions of forestry management
and with the instructions concerning the terms, methods and ages, logging and handling of
wood materials, issued by the central authority responsible for the forestry;
- When harvesting the wood material, the forest districts, economic agents and legal persons
are bound to use methods for harvesting – skidding of wood properly selected to avoid soil
degradation, damaging of seedlings and of trees.
- The Ministry of Economy and Commerce is the body responsible for the implementation of
Government policy in the field of industrial production and goods.
Timber – See
o http://www.unece.org/timber/docs/sem-1/papers/r29Istratescu.pdf - European Forestry
Commission, STRATEGIES FOR THE SOUND USE OF WOOD
Agriculture
The main objective of the policy for agriculture is to support the sustainable development of the
agricultural sector and the domains related to it.
o The policy for agriculture respects the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its main elements:
o The Common Customs Tariff
o The EU bilateral trade agreements
o The Integrated Tariff of the European Communities
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