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
28    Investment 1.       Target       New areas of                  m2          500 000       3 150 000    Q2          2026      Ministry of         Target to be     Summary document duly justifying how
      Afforestation and                urban forests                                                                              Environment,        reached in       the target (including all the constitutive

      reforestation                    created                                                                                    Water and           accordance       elements) was satisfactorily fulfilled. This
      national                                                                                                                    Forests             with the         document shall include as an annex the
      campaign,                                                                                                                                       requirements     following documentary evidence:
      including urban                                                                                                                                 specified in
      forests                                                                                                                                         Target 27         a) a report by the Ministry of
                                                                                                                                                      (and not             Environment, Water and Forests
                                                                                                                                                      Target 25,           demonstrating that the
                                                                                                                                                      which refers
                                                                                                                                                                           implementation of the target is in
                                                                                                                                                      to new areas
                                                                                                                                                      of afforested        compliance with the legal
                                                                                                                                                      or reforested        requirements laid down in the

                                                                                                                                                      land) .              National Forest Strategy and fulfills
                                                                                                                                                                           the conditions a) to e) listed in the
                                                                                                                                                                           description of Target 27;
                                                                                                                                                                       b) a list of references of the certificates
                                                                                                                                                                           of completion of the creation of at
                                                                                                                                                                           least 3 1500 000 m2.

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