Operational Arrangements between the European Commission and Romania

                                                       Qualitative        Quantitative indicators          Indicative timeline
      Related Measure                                                                                                                                   Further
                        Milestone/                     indicators             (for targets)                  for completion        Responsibility
Num     (Reform or                       Name                                                                                                         specification
                         Target                           (for                                                                   for reporting and                                Verification mechanism
        Investment)                                                                                                                                      (where
                                                       milestones)                                                                implementation
                                                                     Unit of                                                                           necessary)
                                                                                 Baseline           Goal   Quarter      Year
                                                                     measure
72    Investment 1.     Milestone    Signature of     Signature of                                         Q4          2022      Ministry of         The text           Summary document duly justifying how
      Modernisation                  contracts for    contracts                                                                  Transport and       describing the     the milestone (including all the

      and renewal of                 50% of the                                                                                  Infrastructure      milestones         constitutive elements) was satisfactorily
      railways                       works related                                                                               (MTI)/Romania       shall be           fulfilled. This document shall include as
      infrastructure                 to                                                                                          n Railway           understood as      an annex the following documentary
                                     modernisation                                                                               Company             “The               evidence:
                                     , upgrade and                                                                               (CFR)               milestone          a) for publication of the tenders: copy
                                     renewal of                                                                                                      refers to to the         and link to the publication in the
                                     railway                                                                                                         signature of             national public procurement
                                     infrastructure                                                                                                  contracts of
                                                                                                                                                                              platform (SICAP) and in the Official
                                                                                                                                                     contracts with
                                                                                                                                                     winning                  Journal of the European Union
                                                                                                                                                     companies                (OJEU) if the case.

                                                                                                                                                     equivalent to      b) for awards: copy and link to the
                                                                                                                                                     50% of the               publication in the national public
                                                                                                                                                     works for the            procurement platform (SICAP) and
                                                                                                                                                     construction             in the Official Journal of the
                                                                                                                                                     and
                                                                                                                                                                              European Union (OJEU) if the case
                                                                                                                                                     supervision of
                                                                                                                                                     railways as              and copy of the evaluation
                                                                                                                                                     follows: (…)”.           committee report.
                                                                                                                                                                        c) copy of the signed contracts with the
                                                                                                                                                                              contractual counterparts and of the
                                                                                                                                                                              subsequent amendments to the

contracts if any. d) extract of the relevant parts of the technical specifications of the project proving alignment with the description of the milestone and of the description of the investment in the CID e) extract of the relevant parts containing the selection criteria/technical specifications that ensure compliance with DNSH f) copy of the EIA and permits

obtained if needed.

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