Preliminary assessment of the second payment request of Romania

Providing specialised assistance in the field of investment projects in public health infrastructure to ministries, public hospitals or to other public authorities. Article 4(1) letter l) of the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 76/2022 specifies that ANDIS, when developing health infrastructure, will provide specialised assistance to ministries and institutions with their own health networks or to the public hospitals in those health networks for the implementation of the investment projects.

Establishing and implementing the multiannual programme of priority investment projects in public health infrastructure Article 4(1) letter g) of the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 76/2022 specifies that ANDIS has to draft the multiannual programme of investment projects of major importance for the public health infrastructure and submits it for approval to the Government, through the Ministry of Health. Article 7(1) and (2) provide that ANDIS has to manage the major health infrastructure investments which are included in the multiannual programme, thus ensuring the implementation of the programme.

Monitoring the implementation of public health infrastructure investment projects Article 4(1) letter h) of the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 76/2022 tasks ANDIS with monitoring the implementation of investment projects of major importance for the public health infrastructure. Article 2 letter b) defines the external beneficiaries as Ministries and institutions with their own health networks or public hospitals in their health network implementing considerable investment projects. Also, Article 4(2) letter c) refers to monitoring the implementation of investment projects in the public health infrastructure among the functions of ANDIS. ANDIS has to collect and publish data, information and reports related to the implementation of these projects.

Setting-up a centre of excellence in the management of public health infrastructure investment projects Article 3(3) letter b) of the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 76/2022 provides that through its activity, ANDIS should ensure high quality and performance requirements for the public health infrastructure and become a centre of excellence in the management of objectives/investment projects. This should lead to a high-performance management, permanent improvement of the administrative capacity for implementing the investments and the transfer of knowledge and expertise in implementing investments, including those supported by the Union budget.

Establishing partnerships and concluding financing agreements for investment projects in public health infrastructure Article 4(1) letter i) of the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 76/2022 provides that ANDIS should establish partnerships and conclude financing agreements for objectives/investment projects of major importance for the public health infrastructure, in particular those included in Romania’s recovery and resilience plan.

The president of ANDIS shall be appointed and the recruitment of staff for the 15 key roles in the finalised ANDIS organisation chart shall be completed by the time the agency becomes operational The president of ANDIS was appointed through the Ministerial Order No. 459/2023 of 17 February 2023 and the organization chart was approved through the Government Decision No. 857/2022 of 6 July 2022. The key roles of staff concern the activities of analysis and planning, implementation and monitoring of projects, economic and logistics, legal and human resources, and procurement. 26 staff members were recruited, according to the list of ANDIS personnel of 28 February 2023, including for the key roles, so that the agency would be operational. Part of staff has been transferred from the Ministry of Health and central and local public authorities. The agency became

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