Government Adopts National Reform Program For 2011-2013

04.29.2011 By Bostan Radu

Romania's Government has adopted the National Reform Program for 2011-2013, a document comprising economic recovery and employment measures, and which transposes the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy into national legislation.

Romania's Government has adopted the National Reform Program for 2011-2013, a document comprising economic recovery and employment measures, and which transposes the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy into national legislation.

Bogdan Manoiu, head of the Department for European Affairs, said the Program also includes the Euro-Plus Pact, which comprises a series of short-term strategic measures to boost competitiveness and achieve economic convergence in the European Union.

He reminded that, in November 2010, the Government drafted a preliminary version of the National Reform Program, which set specific targets for all of the strategy's main goals: employment, research-development-innovation, energy and climate change, education, combating poverty and promoting social inclusion.

The final form was developed through the collaboration of the central authorities and consultation with NGOs, employers' organizations and labor unions, said Manoiu. It also considers the European Commission's main recommendations, issued after the evaluation of the draft Program sent in November 2010, and in bilateral discussions.

The National Reform Program is correlated with the Convergence Program, which provides the fiscal-budgetary measures required to implement the former's structural reforms.

The Government will send the Program's final version to the Commission and the Department for European Affairs will monitor its implementation country-wide.