Loading ...Romania will manage to become a country with adequate environment only if investors find that the investments are worthy, said the Environment Minister Nicolae Nemirschi at the opening of the 16th edition of the exhibition on technologies for environmental protection, Romenvirotec 2009.
Nemirschi said that the balance between the investments in the public field and the private one has to be poised.
'Investments in environment cannot be made only from public money through various programmes of subsidies or motivation. In this respect, the Ministry of Environment aims that as off next year to get involved more in supporting companies,' said Nemirschi.
According to the information centralised in 2008, as many as 57 NGOs, business operators and local councils were extended 60 million lei from the Environment Fund for the financing of specific projects. Nemirschi said that the main financing source of the environmental projects is represented by the drawing of EU structural funds.
'So far, the European Commission has approved nine projects on the expansion and modernisation of water system and waste water. Other two projects are pending approval. The funds for these projects exceed one billion euros,' said the Romanian senior official.
Nemirschi added that on Tuesday, March 31, a financing contract for Olt county worth 73 million euros was approved. By the end of 2009, other billion euros will be allotted for the completion of 30 projects in the field of waste management, said Nemirschi.
The Romanian official said that the environment ministry has started off the pilot project called 'LIFE' through which the waste generated by business operators become resources for unfolding of future activities. According to Nemirschi, involved in this programme are some 2300 companies, in Suceava county alone.
Among the long-term plans announced by Nemirschi is also the initiation in cooperation with the Ministry of Norway of a project that will draw up the database with suppliers of environment technologies, as well as the results of the Romanian research with potential of implementation in industry. The 16th edition of Romenvirotec unfolds over April 1- 4 at Romexpo exhibitions centre in Bucharest.
The event is dedicated to equipment and technologies for environmental protection and it is organised under the patronage of the Ministry of Environment. Concurrently unfolding in the same location is the fourth edition of the Expo Renew Energy fair, devoted to experts in technologies and equipment devoted to environmental protection and renewable energies in partnership with the Romanian Energy Saving Agency.
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