The Government of Romania has adopted by Decision, last week, the National Policy Framework for the development of the market regarding alternative fuels in the transport sector and the installation of the relevant infrastructure in Romania and the setting up of the Interministerial Coordination Council for the development of the market for alternative fuels, sources told energynomics.ro.
“The next steps will be to set up the Council, establish its working procedures, and that will take some time. Then working groups, inter-ministerial coordination, representatives will have to be formed, the secretariat formed … that we are going to feed on with information,” the quoted source said.
Thus, the basis are set for facilitating investments in the field of alternative fuels, but also the legal bases of infrastructure construction required for electric vehicles and for compressed gas (CNG) or hydrogen.
At the same time, Romania will be able to escape the infringement procedure launched in January by the European Commission due to the lack of transposition of EU norms into the national framework.
“It will take a while before we get rid of the infringement. The Commission will have to be notified, then it will have to verify the compliance with its rules and procedures, and then it will raise the infringement procedure,” the quoted source said.
The European Commission has decided in January to send Malta and Romania to the EU Court of Justice for failing to notify national policy frameworks under Directive 2014/94 / EU on the installation of alternative fuel infrastructure.
Member States were required to notify national policy frameworks to the Commission by 18 November 2016. Malta and Romania did not respond to this request although they received a letter of formal notice from the Commission and a reasoned opinion on 15 February, July 13, 2017.
