Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

                                                normative acts: Order No. 934/2020, Order No.
                                                1347/2020, Order No. 1867/2020, Order No.
                                                110/2021, Order No. 675/2021, Order No.
                                                909/2021, Order No. 179/2022, Order No.
                                                783/2023, Order No. 598/2024, Order No.
                                                2492/2024.
3   Copy of the Ministerial Order No.           The Ministerial Order approved the RABLA
    324/2020 approving the Financing            Programme that provided non-reimbursable
    Guide for the Programme to stimulate        financing in the form of a scrappage bonus for
    the renewal of the national vehicle         the purchase of new/ less polluting vehicles in
    fleet 2020-2024, published in the           exchange for scrapping old vehicles.
    Official Journal No. 175/2020, Part I,      The order was amended by the following

    and entered into force on 3 March           normative acts: Order No. 934/2020, Order No.
    2020 - with subsequent amendments.          1347/2020, Order No. 2048/2020, Order No.
                                                110/2021, Order No. 676/2021, Order No.
                                                908/2021, Order No. 1470/2021, Order No.
                                                180/2022, Order No. 784/2023, Order No.
                                                597/2024, Order No. 2491/2024.
4   Copy of the Ministerial Order No.           The Ministerial Order offered support and
    2261/2022 approving the Financing           incentives to the scrapping of old-polluting
    Guide of the Programme regarding on         vehicles older than 15 years old.
    the scrapping of used vehicles,             The order was amended by the Order No.
    published in the Official Journal No.       864/2023.
    832/2022, Part I, and entered into

    force on 24 August 2022 – with
    subsequent amendments.
5   Copy of Ministerial Order No.               The Ministerial Order replaces the Ministerial
    1231/2025 for the approval of the           Order No.323/2020 and aims to grant non-
    Financing Guide of the Programme on         repayable subsidies/de minimis aid from the
    the reduction of greenhouse gas             Environment Fund, in the form of eco-labels,
    emissions in transport, by promoting        for the purchase of new vehicles in exchange
    non-polluting and energy-efficient          for the scrapping and deregistration of used
    road transport vehicles 2025-2030,          vehicles.
    published in the Official Journal No.
    364/2025, Part I, and entered into
    force on 24 April 2025.

6   Copy of Local Council Decision No.          The Decision approves the free use of public
    370/2024 regarding the repeal of            parking lots of general utility in Bucharest by
    paragraph (2) of art. 2 of the Decision     the owners of electric and hybrid cars
    of the General Council of the               registered Bucharest.
    Municipality of Bucharest No. 706/22
    December 2022 on the free use of
    public parking lots of general utility on
    the territory of the Municipality of
    Bucharest by the owners of electric
    and hybrid cars registered in the
    Municipality of Bucharest, as well as
    on the repeal of the Decision of the

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