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1 September 2014
To ensure that EU rules on organic farming are respected, each country appoints a competent authority. These are generally either the Ministry of Agriculture or the Ministry of Public Health.To ensure that EU rules on organic farming are respected, each country appoints a competent authority. These are generally either the Ministry of Agriculture or the Ministry of Public Health.
Once a year, EU countries report to the European Commission what results were obtained from the controls carried out on organic farming operators and what measures were taken in cases of violations of the rules .
Farmers, processors or traders must be controlled by a control body or control authority before they can market their the products as organic food. After they have been checked and deemed compliant, they receive a certificate attesting that they meet EU requirements.
Regardless of whether they apply organic or non-organic production methods, farmers must also comply with a number of sectoral regulations that protect public health, animal and plant health, the environment and animal welfare. In addition, all farmers receiving income support must comply with legal management requirements (SMRs) under cross-compliance legislation, thus proving that they comply with EU food and environmental legislation.
All food manufacturers must also comply with general food law, which includes labeling legislation. Certain products must also comply with other rules, for example more extensive labeling requirements. These regulations are mandatory for organic food producers who, in addition, must comply with certain rules dedicated exclusively to organic production.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) is the central public authority, with legal personality, with a role in the development and implementation of national sectoral strategies in the fields: agriculture, animal husbandry and food industry, rural development, fishing and aquaculture, land improvements, as well as in the related fields: specialized scientific research, phytosanitary, conservation and sustainable management of soils and plant and animal genetic resources, irrigation system development and of the national anti-hail and increase of percepts.
Financial support for farmers – ensuring the regulatory framework for granting agricultural subsidies within the deadlines set by EU legislation
Results: 723,574 farmers, beneficiaries of payments
State aid for diesel used in agriculture
Results: 772,189.13 thousand lei were paid for 478,456,749,882 liters of diesel
Financial support granted to producer organizations in the fruit and vegetable sector
Results: 5 producer organizations requested support (amount of financial assistance: 4,900,424 lei (EU) and 3,825,403 lei national budget)
The National Support Program in the wine sector 2019-2023 – the elaboration, modification, completion of the normative acts for the regulation of the activities carried out in the wine sector, especially those that were/are aimed at the implementation of the PNS 2019-2023; To mitigate the crisis situation in the wine sector, generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a set of temporary, exceptional measures was adopted, including the measure of wine distillation in crisis situations
Results: The evaluation, with a view to selecting, of 2 wine promotion programs in third countries within the PNS 2019-2023, for which APIA concluded implementation contracts:
"Promotion Romanian wines with DOC, on the markets of Canada and the Republic of Korea";
"Promotion of Romanian wines with DOC, on the UK market"
The field of agricultural market officials: the process of organizing farmers' associative structures was continued with the aim of making the valorization, on the market, of the members' own products more efficient
Results: Recognition procedures were initiated for 31 groups of producers, of which: 20 in the vegetable sector (cereals, oleaginous plants, legumes/fodder plants), 8 with mixed recognition (cereals, oilseeds, legumes with fruits/vegetables or grains, oilseeds, legumes, fodder and livestock products), 3 in the vegetable sector
The field of storage of consumer seeds
Results: It was proposed to maintain the warehouse license for 15 economic operators
The field of technical plants
Results: The interprofessional agreement for sugar beet, the harvest of the marketing year 2022-2023, was concluded and registered at MADR. The interprofessional agreement for sugar beet, from the harvest of the 2022-2023 marketing year, was concluded. Authorization of a primary processing unit for raw tobacco, authorization of an economic operator for the import of hemp seeds, other than those for sowing
De minimis aid for the application of the vegetable production support program in protected areas
Results: 33,769 beneficiaries; the amount authorized for payment 337,068.22 thousand lei
De minimis aid for garlic production
Results:1,264 beneficiaries; cultivated area 1,670.64 ha; the amount paid 21,081 thousand lei
De minimis aid for potato production
Results: 2,065 beneficiaries; the amount paid 7,900.70 thousand lei
De minimis aid for grape production
Results: 369 beneficiaries; the amount paid 4,566.80 thousand lei
State aid granted to agricultural producers who established crops in autumn 2021 and were affected by soil drought
Results: 15,029 beneficiaries; the amount paid 257,335 thousand lei
Agricultural statistics
Results: Preparation of reports on the structure of crops (balance of arable areas, agricultural production schedule), stocks, the statistical situation of the land, information on the spring productive area, preliminary estimates on plant production, daily operatives on the stage sowing and harvesting, the fleet of tractors and agricultural machines, the harvested area and the production obtained
Encouraging the development of the organic agriculture sector
Results: 35,000 beneficiaries of animal breeding payments – 85,000,000 lei allocated
Results: Allocated budget for 2021: 10,000 thousand lei
Results: 28 beneficiaries – 1,070,534,640 lei allocated
Results: 43 beneficiaries – 431,609,380.91 lei allocated
Results: 9 applications submitted by beneficiaries, amount allocated: 640,000 lei
Results: 40,365 beneficiaries of ANT 7 (milk), 112,129 farmers of ANT 8 (meat) and 44,672 beneficiaries of ANT9 (sheep/goats)
Results: 1 beneficiary – total amount of financial aid: 373,071,660 lei
Results: 15,383 beneficiaries, the total amount of support 99,324,810 euros
Results: 17,790 beneficiaries, total amount of support 71,300,000 euros
Results: 2,086 beneficiaries, the total amount of support 13,125,000 euros
Results: 2,048 beneficiaries, total amount of support 1,680,000 euros
Results: 4 beneficiaries, total amount of support 54,000 euros
Field of meadows and pastoral arrangements
Results: From a total area of 4,530,298 ha, existing on 1 Jan. 2007 (approved by the EC), 2,545 projects of pastoral facilities were carried out, on a total area of 2,885,897 ha, of which during the year 2022, pastoral facilities were drawn up on an area of 480,875 ha, being in progress 304 pastoral development projects, with a total area of 766,148 ha
Results: 7,819 registered beneficiaries, the value of the allocated financial support being 60,196,000 lei
Field of operation of agricultural markets
Results: Recognition procedures were initiated for 9 groups of producers in the livestock sector, for which recognition notices were issued, of which: 5 for the groups of milk and dairy products, beef and meat sheep, 1 for mutton, 1 for beef, mutton/goat and pork, 1 for honey and bee products, 1 for poultry, eggs and pork.
