Preliminary assessment of the first payment request of Romania

Concerning the prohibition to discharge untreated wastewater from appropriate individual systems directly into the environment, two new paragraphs have been added after article 31 paragraph (14), providing that the direct discharge of the untreated wastewaters shall be forbidden from the appropriate individual systems into the surface waters, groundwater, or on the lands, without ensuring their proper treatment.

Concerning the development of criteria for authorization, construction, registration/record, operation and maintenance of appropriate individual systems, article III (1) and (2) allow for the development of criteria by the relevant authorities. In particular, the article provides that the National Regulatory Authority for Community Services of Public Utilities (A.N.R.S.C.) shall elaborate the methodologies provided by art. 16, paragraph (2), letters c) and d) of the Law no. 241/2006, republished. Furthermore, the law provides that the Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests and the Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration shall draw up the criteria for authorization, construction, registration, control and operation and maintenance of appropriate individual collection systems and wastewater treatment, which are to be approved by Government decision. Government Decision 714 approving the criteria was adopted on 26 May 2022.

All the changes required by the CID Annex have been introduced in the Law No 241/2006.

The Romanian Audit Authority also reviewed the milestone. The authority found that for the last amendment concerning the development of criteria for authorization, construction, registration/record, operation and maintenance of appropriate individual systems, the Romanian government developed the criteria but did not formally approve them. The authority recommended that the government approved them. The milestone requires amendments for the empowerment to develop the criteria and not for their application, therefore this conclusion is not relevant for the assessment of the milestone. As indicated above, the Commission notes that the Government Decision 714 approving the criteria was adopted on 26 May 2022.

Therefore, the Commission considers the milestone as satisfactorily fulfilled. Commission Preliminary Assessment: Satisfactorily fulfilled

                  Related Measure: Performance-based quality management in transport - Improving
Number: 78        institutional capacity and corporate governance

Name of the Milestone: Entry into force of the Law no. 50/2021 for the approval of the Emergency Ordinance no. 55/2016 on the reorganization of the National Company of Highways and National Roads in Romania - S.A. (C.N.A.I.R) and the establishment of the National Road Investment Company - S.A. (C.N.I.R) Qualitative Indicator: Provision in the law indicating the entry into force of Time: Q2 2021 the Law no 50/2021 Context:

Milestone 78 is part of a reform which aims to enhance the quality of transport investments and services by improving the corporate governance and the performance of the State-Owned Enterprises operating in the transport sector, notably for those in charge of roads, railways, and metro. This reform contains four interrelated milestones and targets.

Milestone 78 calls for the entry into force of the legislation on the reform of the National Company of Highways and National Roads in Romania (C.N.A.I.R) and the creation of a new Road Investment Project Management Company (C.N.I.R). Along with the entry into force of this legislation,

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