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The President of League of Associations of Agricultural Producers in Romania (LAPAR), Laurentiu Baciu, believes that the new law on land sales between individuals does not cover issues of cadaster and the costs they will face municipalities.

"It was not taken into account that there are many lands without cadaster, nor succession is made and where it sells a smaller area of land then the costs are too high relative to revenue," said Baciu at a meeting with members LAPAR.

Conversion program in horticulture has provided total funding of 260 million euros in the new RDP 2014-2020, of which an amount of EUR 40 million will be allocated to processing and marketing of products obtained.

German retailer Lidl, which entered the Romanian market in 2011 by acquiring Plus supermarket chain, will open 14 new stores this year, ZF.ro reports.

The chain will keep its last year's expansion pace with the goal of having 183 stores at the end of the year as a result of strong growth in sales and the number of customers.

"We will keep the last year's expansion pace and open stores in many areas of the country," said Maksymilian Braniecki, Chairman of the Board of Lidl Romania.

Austria's Egger, the wood processor, has completed a 83MW biomass plant at its site in Romania's Radauti, Suceava County, following a EUR 35 million investment, reports business daily Ziarul Financiar.

The new plant is designed to provide heat and energy on the site, and is fueled by wood waste.

US company Honeywell Transportation Systems on Oct. 8 opened a factory at the West Park Industrial park of Ploiesti, Prahova County, southern Romania, on an investment that is planned to reach 57 million euros by 2015. Chairman of the Friction Materials Division of Honeywell Rainer Bostel told in a press conference that out of the 57 million euros to be invested by 2015 in the new factory that manufactures brake pads, 16 million euros was aid from the Romanian Government approved in 2011 to be paid up as the investment advances.

Agerpres - ROMANIAN ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, November 4 -
10, 2013, No. 45

Energy production in the wind power plants stood at 2.413 billion kWh in the first six months of this year, increasing 1.226 billion kWh from the similar period last year, according to the data released by the National Institute for Statistics (INS) on Aug. 8. The production in thermal power plants accounted for 12.140 billion KWh, declining 26.4 percent. The hydro-power plants generated 15.9 percent more energy, reaching a production of 8.494 billion kWh. At the same time, the nuclear power plant of Cernavoda produced 5.663 billion kWh, by 3.8 percent more.

Law no. 186/2013 on establishing and functioning of industrial parks (“Law 186”) has been published. Law 186 repeals the previous legislation (i.e. Government Ordinance no. 65/2001) and introduces new provisions, such as: 

Industrial parks are classified based on the activity performed (greenfield industrial park, agropark, technological, innovative, etc.) and the authorisation method (industrial platform and existing industrial platform).

Upgrading infrastructure works worth more than 44 million euros (over RON 200 million) will be conducted at Constanta Port, following a decision taken by the Government on June 12. "The finalization of the intervention works will increase the safety of port operations and stability of docks in the south of the port and it will increase the capacity of Constanta Port, in general.

Bucharest, May 15 / Agerpres / - Romania's arid land could be an excellent source for biomass projects, and our goal is that, by 2016, to implement 350 biomass installations that can create over 10,000 jobs throughout the country, said in a press conference, Ilias Papageorgiadis, President of the Romanian Association of Biomass and Bio-gas ARBIO. "The category of unproductive land, the so-called fallow land, can be an excellent source for biomass projects across the country, while it cannot anyway be valued as agricultural land.

A total stretch of 142 kilometers of motorway will be opened to traffic this year, with the first delivery due this May, on the Deva-Orastie segment (northwest of Bucharest, Hunedoara County), which is part of Corridor IV, Minister-delegate for infrastructure Projects of National Interest Dan Sova told the ProTV broadcaster on May 12.

Belgian logistics services provider H.Essers started construction of a distribution center on a 50,000 sq. m land plot near Bucharest on January 14, the company announced. 

Total investment in construction of the facility is estimated at about EUR 12.5 mln. The project, due to be completed in October, will have an area of 33,000 sq. m, with an option to be extended to 100,000 sq. m.