Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

laws, government decisions, government emergency ordinances – that are part of M24 are described above. They combat illegal logging by fixing sanctions, at times higher than in earlier legislation, establishing damage calculation methods, tasking the Romanian Gendarmerie with the protection of forests and augmenting transparency on the provenance of timber. They improve forest management by reorganising the National Forest Guard and National Forest Administration Romsilva, defining their tasks, consolidating forestry directorates and introducing professional requirements and competitions for appointments to key management positions and providing for annual evaluations of staff.

4. Commission Preliminary Assessment: Satisfactorily fulfilled.

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