The Romanian Government will abolish the National Authority for the Regulation and Monitoring of Public Procurement and create a new structure within the Finance Ministry. It will be called the National Agency for Public Procurement.

The Government issued yesterday an Emergency Ordinance in this regard. Public procurement lacks a “sustained and effective coordination”, reads the Emergency Ordinance motivation, cited by local Mediafax.

Various institutions have overlapping responsibilities in the public procurement system, according to the Government.

A president with the rank of a State Secretary will lead the agency. The Prime Minister will appoint him, based on a proposal from the Finance Minister.

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