ANNEX to the COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending Implementing Decision of 29 October 2021 on the approval of the assessment of the recovery and resilience plan for Romania

reduced significantly which shall enable the extension of the water and wastewater service 14452/25 ADD 1 6 ECOFIN 1A EN  infrastructure. - Oblige local public administration authorities to keep records of natural and legal persons that do not discharge waste water into the public sewerage network and send the list of such persons to the National Environmental Guard annually. - Oblige users to connect to existing public sewerage systems if they do not have an appropriate individual collection and treatment system. - Allow to organise, where appropriate, the provision of the water service only, on the condition that the collection of wastewater is done through individual collection and treatment systems that shall ensure the same level of environmental protection as 14452/25 ADD 1 7 ECOFIN 1A EN  centralised collection and treatment systems. - Ensure the exceptional nature of adequate individual systems, which shall only address situations where centralised systems are not technically and economically feasible. - Prohibit the direct discharge of untreated wastewater from appropriate individual systems into the environment. - Develop criteria for authorization, construction, registration/record, operation and maintenance of appropriate individual systems. 2 Reform 1. Milestone Entry into Provision in the Q1 2022 Entry into force of the law Strengthening the force of the law indicating approving the national regulatory law the entry into programme First framework for approving the force of the law Connection to Water and sustainable national for the First Sanitation, which shall management of programme Connection to support families and single water and waste First Water and people on low incomes water sector and Connection Sanitation (who have average 14452/25 ADD 1 8 ECOFIN 1A EN  accelerating to Water and programme monthly net cash income people’s access to Sanitation below the gross national quality services minimum wage guaranteed under European per family member) to pay directives the costs incurred for connection to the water supply and sewerage system. Low income households shall be identified by the local authorities. The First Connection Programme shall then finance, through the Environmental Fund Administration, the connection works for the identified families contracted by the local authorities. 3 Reform 1. Milestone Implementa- Implementation Q4 2022 The Environmental Fund Strengthening the tion agreements Administration shall sign regulatory agreements signed with the the implementation framework for the signed with local authorities agreements with the local sustainable the local participating in authorities participating in management of the authorities the First the First Connection to water and waste participating Connection to Water and Sanitation water sector and in the First Water and Programme. accelerating Connection Sanitation people’s access to to Water and Programme quality services Sanitation under European Programme directives 4 Reform 2. Milestone Entry into Provision in the Q1 2026 Studies for the 11 river 14452/25 ADD 1 9 ECOFIN 1A EN  Reconfiguration of force of the law indicating basins in Romania shall be ANAR’s current law the entry into made available on a economic introducing force of a website and cover: (i) the mechanism to amendments legislative act economic importance of ensure the to regulate for amendments the sustainable water modernisation and the new to regulate the management and use; (ii) maintenance of the economic new economic trends in the evolution of national water mechanism mechanism for the water needs and the management for water water resources volumes of water collected system resources in in Romania at river basin / area level; Romania and (iii) medium and long- term macroeconomic indicators and the optimal cost recovery mechanism for the water volumes provided by ANAR to water resource users in accordance with the ecological flow requirements. On the basis of the studies, legislative amendments shall enter into force to regulate the new economic mechanism for water resources in Romania. The new mechanism shall increase the correlation between ANAR’s (Romanian Waters Administration) regulated water revenue system and the costs for each category 14452/25 ADD 1 10 ECOFIN 1A EN  of water users ANAR supplies. 6 Investment 1. Target Constructed Kilometres 0 288.3 Q2 2026 A total of 288.3km of Construction of water (km) water distribution water networks and distribution networks shall be sewerage systems networks constructed in in agglomerations agglomerations of more of more than 2 000 than 2 000 population. population equivalent 8 Investment 1. Target Constructed Kilometres 0 975 Q2 2026 At least 975 km of sewage Construction of sewage (km) network shall be water and sewerage networks constructed in total in systems in agglomerations of more agglomerations of than 2 000 population more than 2 000 equivalents. population equivalent 10 Investment 2. Target Individual or Number 0 9 545 Q2 2026 9 545 in total individual or Collection of waste other other appropriate systems water in appropriate shall be constructed in agglomerations of systems agglomerations of less less than 2 000 constructed than 2 000 population population in agglomera- equivalent. equivalent tions of less than 2 000 population equivalent. 12 Investment 2. Target Constructed Kilometres 0 88.7 Q2 2026 88.7 km in total of sewage Collection of waste sewerage (km) network shall be water in networks in constructed in agglomerations of agglomera- agglomerations below less than 2 000 tions below 2 000 population 14452/25 ADD 1 11 ECOFIN 1A EN  population 2 000 equivalents. equivalent population equivalent 17 Investment 4. Target Existing dam Number 0 2 Q2 2026 1 existing dam – LESU, Rehabilitation of and polder for which a revised existing rehabilitated feasibility study concluded accumulations that that there are no feasible require emergency alternatives to reduce flood interventions for