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Deputy Prime Minister Raluca Turcan, Interior Minister Marcel Vela and Economy Minister Virgil Popesu will make press statements starting at 5:00 pm, at the end of the government meeting.
HotNews broadcasts the most important statements livetext:
Raluca Turcan:
- The GEO was adopted to support individuals and companies for a limited period of time.
- The Government decided today to extend technical unemployment until June 1, 2020 with the possibility of maintaining this form of support in areas that will continue to be restricted depending on the evolution of the epidemiological situation. We are talking about employees with individual employment contracts, but also liberal professions, PFA and other categories of professionals.
- Our stated intention is to provide this form of support and, in parallel, with June 1 to propose active measures.
- The measure to grant parental leave will run until June 12, 2020
- Companies with more than 50 employees, forced to establish an individualized work schedule.
- Extension of rights until May 31: parental leave
- Health: additional amounts will be allocated for priority liquidation of sick leave for those in quarantine and for those with COVID
- Medical consultations provided by doctors and outpatients can still be provided remotely. The agreement will be made without the use of the card.
- Education: Free transportation for students. Through GEO, we decided that transportation operators would provide free transportation for students under penalties for losing contracts.
- Licenses have been extended, CJs take them and are obliged to make this a condition for free transportation.
- Tax field: VAT exemption until September 1 for companies that buy equipment for COVID
- Cultural domain: the possibility of reusing tickets already purchased or coupons for other events. If these tickets are not used within a year, the money will be refunded
- Extension of the deadline for issuing emergency certificates until May 31, to support employers
- The possibility of requesting the deferral of quotas will be extended until June 15.
Virgil Popescu:
- GEO, which creates the possibility for ANRE to regulate the price in order to decrease and I am optimistic that we will have a 1-2% price decrease in regulated electricity rates. It will have the effect of reducing the price of electricity from July 1
- Exceptions for new investments in electricity.
Marcel Vela:
- The GEO was adopted to amend some regulatory acts related to the management of emergency situations. On May 15, the state of emergency ceases.
- The danger of COVID spreading continues
- Through this normative act, we propose the modification of some normative acts such as GEO 21/2004 and GEO 1/2014
- The definition of alertness has changed: the response to an emergency
- We adjusted the mechanism to declare, prolong and end the state of alert. The criteria to be analyzed are established: the size, density and infrastructure of the area.
- The state of alert will be administered by the National Committee for Emergency Situations, which will be headed by the Prime Minister and will have 3 vice-presidents: Raed Arafat, Marcel Vela and the Minister of Public Works.
- Based on this GEO, the first meeting on the new formula of the National Committee for Emergency Situations will be convened tonight.
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Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said at the beginning of the government meeting that the state of alert will be declared on Thursday by the National Committee for Emergency Situations, a body whose management will be personally taken over.
“Once the state of alert is declared, the National Committee for Emergency Situations will establish all the necessary measures to defend the life and health of the Romanians. These measures will be mandatory and will be established on the basis of GEO 21, which regulates emergency situations. Nothing will stop us from making all the necessary decisions, “Orban said.
On Wednesday, Parliament approved the law on the state of alert, bringing substantial changes to the Government’s project, but it comes into force only on May 18, in accordance with the deadlines established by the Constitution. It should be noted that the Government cannot issue an ordinance or a decision to maintain the restrictions because it violates human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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