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
24    Reform 1.           Milestone    Entry into         Provision in                                            Q2          2023      Ministry of                         Copy of the publication in the Official
      Reform of forest                 force of the       the law                                                                       Environment,                        Journal, accompanied by a summary

      management and                   legislative acts   indicating the                                                                Water and                           document duly justifying how the
      governance                       amending and       entry into                                                                    Forests                             milestone was satisfactorily fulfilled. This
      systems through                  supplementing      force of the                                                                                                      summary document shall include a
      the development                  the existing       legislative                                                                                                       reference to the relevant provisions
      of a new National                legislation on     acts                                                                                                              indicating the entry into force and to the
      Forest Strategy                  forests                                                                                                                              provisions which fulfil the relevant
      and subsequent                                                                                                                                                        elements of the milestone, as listed in the
      legislation                                                                                                                                                           description of milestone and the
                                                                                                                                                                            corresponding measure in the CID annex,
                                                                                                                                                                            with appropriate links to or copies of the
                                                                                                                                                                            document(s) mentioned in the summary
                                                                                                                                                                            document.

25    Investment 1.       Target       New areas of                        ha          0              25 000      Q4          2023      Ministry of                         Summary document duly justifying how
      Afforestation and                afforested or                                                                                    Environment,                        the target (including all the constitutive
      reforestation                    reforested                                                                                       Water and                           elements) was satisfactorily fulfilled.
      national                         land                                                                                             Forests
      campaign,                                                                                                                                                             This document shall include as an annex
      including urban                                                                                                                                                       the following documentary evidence:
      forests
                                                                                                                                                                            a) a report by the Ministry of
                                                                                                                                                                            Environment, Water and Forests
                                                                                                                                                                            demonstrating that the implementation of
                                                                                                                                                                            the target is in compliance with the legal
                                                                                                                                                                            requirements laid down in the National

Forest Strategy and fulfills the conditions a) to e) listed in the target description; b) a list of the assessment documents required as a result of condition e) of the target description and how they were implemented; c) a list of certificates of completion of the afforestation or reforestation of at least 25 000 ha.

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