Romania has received 1.9 billion euros from the structural and cohesion funds financed from the financial year 2021-2027, and the general uptake rate places it at the level of the European Union average, the Minister of Investments and of European Projects, Adrian Caciu announced on Friday.
"Romania received 1.9 billion euros from the structural and cohesion funds financed from the 2021-2027 financial year, and the general uptake rate places it at the level of the European Union average (Romania has 6.11% and the EU average is 6.19% ). On the programs managed at the central level (by the Ministry of Investments and European Projects and the Ministry of Transport) the uptake of the structural funds and of cohesion is at a higher level, i.e. 7.3%. Only in the last few days, more than 650 million euros has been collected from the structural and cohesion funds related to the financial year 2021-2027, and reimbursements from the European Commission will continue at the pace which we predicted, considering that Romania has concluded contracts worth over 31 billion euros", Adrian Caciu wrote on Facebook.
He emphasized that Romania still has to recoup in terms of the Regional Programs, where the uptake rate is 3.2%.
"We still have to recoup in terms of the Regional Programs, decentralized to the Regional Development Agencies that have the capacity of Management Authorities for these programs, agencies subordinated to the Regional Development Councils coordinated by the County Councils, where the uptake rate is 3.2%. I am convinced that the model that we, those in the current coalition, have set in terms of managing and implementing European funds, including their decentralization, will be continued by the future governing coalition and the uptake of European funds will be sustained so as to repeat the success of absorbing European funds in the 2014-2020 fiscal year," added the Minister of European Investments and Projects on his social media page.