Large road infrastructure project in Romania, approved by the European Commission

The project was presented by the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure and Communications together with CNAIR, as a beneficiary of the non-reimbursable financing assigned within the Large Infrastructure Operational Program 2014-2020, on November 22, 2019.

On November 22, 2019, Romania submitted to the Commission a request for a major project that provides for a contribution from the Cohesion Fund for the “Construction of the Bacau Ring Road”, selected by the managing authority for priority axis 1, ” Improving mobility through development of the TEN-T network and the metro “within the” Large infrastructures “operational program. Romania provided the Commission with all the necessary information, including those related to environmental issues.

The purpose of the project The Bacau bypass is represented by the granting of non-reimbursable financing to CNAIR, in order to build 30,842 km of new road, of which 16,269 km of motorway, 7 bridges, 9 passageways, 1 crossing of roads and 7 intersections. Once the implementation is complete, the Bacau bypass will save significant time by reducing travel time for cars and heavy vehicles, ”says Bode.

The total value of the project is 968,781 million lei, of which the total eligible value, financed by the Large Infrastructure Operational Program 2014-2020, is 811,102 million lei (85% of the total eligible value approved – 689,437 million of lei comes from the Cohesion Fund, and 15% worth 121,665 million lei will be financed from the beneficiary’s budget).

“It is another proof that Moldova is not being forgotten. Thus, the first part of the road for the Moldavian area, namely the Bacau ring road, benefits from European funding as of today. And this in the conditions in which, last year, the former PSD government sent incomplete documentation, without environmental management plans, to the EC for various infrastructure objectives, this time European representatives found dialogue partners and here is teamwork and the seriousness with which the data and information requested by the Commission bear fruit ”, the Minister of Transport, Lucian Bode, also showed.