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Evaluation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Europe
National Reporting
Romania
Status
Romania has submitted an Outline Strategy for the Integrated Management of the Romanian Coastal Zone - Towards Implementation to the European Commission in February 2006. The Outline Strategy Draft, as result of the MATRA Project, was the first one for the Romanian Coast.
During the past 4 years, first steps have been made to implement the EC Reccomendation. The National ICZM Law (Emergency Ordinance 202/2002 - modified as Law 280/2003) has been subject to important changes (has been enhanced, shaped according to the EC recommendations, and proposals were made to make it more functional) and is currently waiting for debate and approval in the Romanian Parliament, together with the Outline Draft Strategy for the Romanian coast.
Visions and strategies exist (in the Outline Strategy)
as basis for further sectoral development plans, but
these still have to be elaborated in detail.
During the past two years the National Committee has
become functional and a series of measures have been
taken, aiming mainly at the environmental protection
and rehabilitation of the coast. Several more technical
parts of required legislation have also been approved
and are on course of being implemented. It is nevertheless
too early to make any previsions on the future evolution,
especially in the absence of the new and improved version
of the ICZM Law and Strategy.
As it is still an outline draft, it can be foreseen
that many technical problems / conflicts shall appear
during its future implementation. As a general problem
encountered so far in Romania, the effective law enforcement
shall be the critical point. Nevertheless, the National
Committee, as leading unit of the Romanian ICZM, has
already begun to abide by the defined strategy.
Reporting Institution
Ministry of Environment and Water Protection
Bucharest
The coordinating entity for ICZM - the National Committee
has been founded and is functional (meeting twice a
year in regular meetings and whenever necessary). The
National Committee consists of all important stakeholders
involved on the Romanian coast, and has begun to implement
the ICZM requirements and principles.
National Contact
Mr. Dumitru Dorogan
Water Resource Management Direction
Contact: dumitru.dorogan@mmediu.ro
National Reporting to the EU ICZM Recommendation
Outline Strategy
for the Integrated Management of the Romanian Coastal
Zone - Towards Implementation, Nov/Dec 2004, Draft
Report (73 pages, English)
Stocktake and Supporting Documents
A Short Presentation of Coastal Protection Plan for the Southern Romanian
Black Sea Shore and Coastal Protection and Rehabilitation
Projects at Mamaia Sud and Eforie Nord, March 2006,
Japan International Cooperation Agency, ECOH Corportation
Further Information
Website of the Ministry of Environment and Water
Protection
http://www.mmediu.ro/home/home.php