Payments to structural fund beneficiaries hit 1.2bn euros
Of the 8.6bn euros in European structural funds available for
the 2007-2010 period, local authorities have so far transferred
1.2bn euros to beneficiaries, meaning a 13.4% absorption rate.
Major payments have started being operated over the past two
months, when those who won European projected received almost 260m
euros.
The programme that made the biggest headway is the one destined to
human resources development (POSDRU), which last year lagged behind
the others in terms of European money absorption.
POSDRU has 1.5bn euros allotted during the 2007-2010 period, and
payments so far have amounted to 300m euros. authorities say the
progress is because of the fact that those winning European fund
projects get a 30% pre-financing in the eligible value of the
project.
The lowest absorption rate is still registered by the operational
transport programme, at 1.85%, which operated 37m-euro payments of
a total of 2bn euros earmarked for it in 2007-2010.