Financiarul

Interim Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Tuesday that the law on the restructuring of government agencies takes effect Thursday, and within seven days, that is until November 19, the government will issue the normative acts for the enforcement thereof.

“The legislation requires the resolutions for the law’s enforcement to be adopted within seven days after the act comes in force, therefore the respective resolutions need to clear the government by Nov. 19. I called as early as today the government meeting at the level of Secretaries of State to prepare the resolutions, which are no easy language, because they also deal with staff outlays and the restructuring of job responsibilities, so that all decisions be approved by the government on November 19,” said Boc.

He mentioned that under this law, 112 government agencies will be dismantled, merged and reorganized and some 9,000 jobs will be shed. “This means that we cut to half the number of government agencies, which are largely a source of political cronies. Therefore this decision also meets the requirement to slim down the oversized central budget-paid apparatus by throwing bureaucratic obesity overboard,” he explained.

At the same time, Boc informed that once the law comes in force, the revenues of government agencies, amounting to almost one billion euros a year, will be directed to the state budget. The said law also sets a tax break in place for the reinvested profit starting with Q4 2009.