Proposal for a COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355 granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to Romania to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak
Date: 2022-06-20
Institutions: Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, EU loan, Romania, coronavirus disease, emergency aid, employment aid, epidemic, fight against unemployment, public expenditure, self-employed person

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 20.6.2022  COM(2022) 314 final 2022/0205 (NLE)  Proposal for a COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355 granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to Romania to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak  
 
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CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL 

Reasons for and objectives of the proposal 

Council Regulation (EU) 2020/672 (“SURE Regulation”) lays down the legal framework for 
providing  Union  financial  assistance  to  Member  States,  which  are  experiencing,  or  are 
seriously threatened with, a severe economic disturbance caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. 
Support  under  SURE  serves  for  the  financing,  primarily,  of  short-time  work  schemes  or 
similar measures aimed at protecting employees and the self‐employed and thus reducing the 
incidence of unemployment and loss of income, as well as for the financing, as an ancillary, 
of some health-related measures, in particular in the workplace. 

On  7  August  2020,  Romania  requested  financial  assistance  from  the  Union  and  on  25 
September  2020,  with  its  Implementing  Decision  (EU)  2020/1355,  the  Council  granted 
financial assistance to Romania with a view to complementing its national efforts to address 
the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and respond to the socioeconomic consequences of the 
outbreak for workers and the self-employed. 

On  26  May  2022,  Romania  requested  the  Union  to  extend  the  list  of  measures  in  Council 
Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355.  

In accordance with Article 6(2) of the SURE Regulation, the Commission has consulted the 
Romanian  authorities  to  verify  the  sudden  and  severe  increase  in  actual  and  planned 
expenditure directly related to Romanian labour market measures and health-related measures 
caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, these measures pertain to a combination of 
new  measures  and  existing  measures  referred  to  in  Council  Implementing  Decision  (EU) 
2020/1355: 

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the  existing  scheme  providing  benefit  to  employees  of  employers  that  reduce  or 
temporarily interrupt their activity due to the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. The 
benefit is capped at 75% of those employees’ basic salary (but no more than 75% of 
the  average  gross  salary  in  the  economy).  This  measure  was  extended  for  the 
duration of the state of emergency until March 2022. 

the  existing  short-time  work  scheme,  under  which,  in  the  event  of  a  temporary 
reduction of activity caused by the state of emergency or alert, the employer has the 
possibility  to  reduce  the  working  hours  of  employees  by  up  to  50%.  During  the 
period of working time reduction, affected employees benefit from an indemnity of 
75%  of  the  difference  between  the  gross  salary  for  normal  working  time  and  their 
actual salary. This measure was extended until June 2022, three months after the end 
of the state of emergency. 

For  the  self-employed  and  liberal  professions,  the  existing  two  measures  were 
extended. For those who stopped work entirely due to the effects of the COVID-19 
outbreak,  the  State  provides  a  benefit  of  75%  of  the  average  gross  salary  for  the 
duration  of  the  state  of  emergency  until  March  2022.  For  those  who  reduce  their 
working  hours,  the  State  provides  a  benefit  of  up  to  41.5%  of  the  average  gross 
salary until June 2022, three months after the end of the state of emergency. 

the existing support allowance to daily labourers who stop working as a result of the 
suspension  of  business  activities  due  to  the  effects  of  the  COVID-19  outbreak  of 
35%  of  the  due  remuneration  per  working  day,  for  a  maximum  period  of  three 

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months.  This  measure was extended until  June 2022, three  months  after the end of 
the state of emergency.  

the existing childcare bonus granted to employees of the national system of defence, 
penitentiaries, public health units and other categories of the public sector established 
through  ministerial  orders.  The  benefit  is  conditional  on  the  other  parent  not 
benefitting from alternative rights that grant days off to parents for the supervision of 
children in the event of the temporary closure of educational units. That measure can 
be considered to be a similar measure to short-time work schemes, as referred to in 
Regulation (EU) 2020/672, as it provides income support to employees, which will 
help to cover the costs of childcare during school closures and therefore help parents 
to  continue  working,  preventing  putting  the  employment  relation  at  risk.  This 
measure was extended until the end of the school year 2021-2022 and broadened to 
include private sector employees. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  a  sick-leave  benefit  granted  to  quarantined  persons 
and  persons  diagnosed  with  COVID-19  infection.  The  leave  and  the  indemnity  for 
quarantine  are  granted  to  the  insured  persons  who  are  forbidden  to  continue  their 
activity, due to a suspicion of contagious disease, for the duration established by the 
certificate issued by the public health directorate. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  a  one-time  financial  support  of  RON  2 500  to 
employers for each teleworker for the purchase of packages of technological  goods 
and services necessary for teleworking activities. The measure applies for employers 
whose  employees  have  teleworked  during  the  state  of  emergency  for  at  least  15 
working  days  in  2020.  That  measure  can  be  considered  to  be  a  similar  measure  to 
short-time  work  schemes,  as  referred  to  in  Regulation  (EU)  2020/672,  due  to  its 
intended purpose and economic effect. By facilitating teleworking in the context of 
the  COVID-19  pandemic,  it  helps  preserve  the  employment  relationship.  It  also 
provides  income  support  to  employees,  in  the  form  of  a  fringe  benefit,  helping  to 
cover the costs of home office expenditure to allow the performance of work during 
lockdown and subsequent restrictions. 

the  existing  bonus  in  respect  of  additional  work  for  the  personnel  of  the  specialty 
structures  of  the  National  Public  Health  Institute  and  the  county  public  health 
directorates and/or the public health directorate of Bucharest was extended in 2020, 
2021 and 2022. This measure continues to be in force as long as the WHO qualifies 
COVID-19 as a global pandemic. 

the existing bonus in respect of particularly dangerous conditions of up to 30% of the 
salary  of  medical  personnel  that  participate  in  the  medical  actions  against  COVID-
19.  The  measure  was  in  force  for  the  period  March  2020  to  August  2020.  The 
measure was broadened to include the personnel responsible for the enforcement of 
sanitary measures under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  a  bonus  between  30%  and  40%  of  the  basic  salary 
granted  to  the  personnel  of  the  county  public-health  directorates  and  of  the  public-
health directorate of Bucharest. 

the new measure consisting of a secondment allowance amounting to 50% and a per 
diem  bonus  of  2%  of  the  basic  salary  for  medical  specialists,  paramedical  and 
auxiliary personnel in the public system.  The allowance is  granted to the personnel 
seconded, in situations of epidemiological or biological risk for a term of 30 days, to 

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health units with shortages of personnel and responsible for limiting and preventing 
the spread of COVID-19. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  temporarily  financing  salary  costs  related  to  the 
opening  of  2 000  new  positions  to  reinforce  the  health  directorates  and  the  public 
ambulance services (1 000 in each), to counteract the spread of COVID-19. 

the new measure consisting of the granting of a bonus between 75% and 85% of the 
basic salary for the specialty medical personnel and auxiliary medical personnel from 
public health units or the structures thereof and for the specialty personnel from the 
paraclinical  medical  structures  directly  involved  in  the  transport,  equipment, 
assessment, diagnostic and treatment of patients diagnosed with COVID-19. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  a  payment  of  the  medical-sanitary  personnel  and  of 
the  registrars  that  carry  out  their  activity  within  the  COVID-19  vaccination  centres 
organised  in  other  locations  than  those  within  the  health  units.  The  measure  also 
financed current and capital expenditures to make the vaccination centres (organised 
in locations other than health facilities) operational. 

the new measure consisting of a payment of the medical-sanitary personnel and the 
medical  registrars  that  carry  out  their  activity  within  the  COVID-19  vaccination 
centres  organised  in  health  units,  as  well  as  the  payment  of  family  doctors  for  the 
activities provided for this purpose. 

the new measure consisting of financing the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine doses in 
2021. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  general  allowances  (such  as  food,  accommodation, 
transport,  medicines)  for  the  quarantine  of  people  in  designated  areas  with  a 
confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19, people in the list established by the COVID-19 
Surveillance  Methodology  and  medical  staff  as  diagnosed  with  COVID-19  who  do 
not  require  hospitalisation  or  staff  that  interacted  with  patients  and  choose  to  stay 
away from their home. 

two new measures consisting of the purchase of medication for COVID-19 treatment 
(Remdesivir  and  monoclonal  antibodies  medicine  that  contains  Casirivimab  and 
Imdevimab).  

 the  new  measure  consisting  of  the  purchase  of  medications  for  the  treatment  of 
COVID-19 infected patients (Tocilizumabum). 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  the  provision  of  incentives  (in  the  form  of  meal 
vouchers  in  the  amount  of  RON  100)  to  persons  vaccinated  with  the  complete 
scheme. 

the new measure consisting of a temporary increase of 30% of the basic salary for the 
staff  of  the  prefect’s  institutions  involved  in  preventing  and  fighting  the  effects  of 
COVID-19 for the period from August 2020 to February 2021. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  the  expenditures  to  cover  200  additional  resident 
doctors needed further to the pandemic. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  the  purchase  of  medical  products  and  personal 
protective  equipment  for  the  fight  against  the  pandemic  (e.g.,  protective  footwear, 
gloves,  masks,  ventilators,  stretchers,  etc.)  to  establish  and  consolidate  emergency 
medical stocks. 

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the  new  measure  consisting  of  the  purchase  of  sanitary  protection  materials  for  the 
employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 

the  new  measure  consisting  of  the  payments  to  volunteer  medicine  students  who 
worked for hospitals/health care institutions to provide emergency support. 

two new measures consisting of the purchase of pharmaceutical products to be used 
for  the  treatment  of  COVID-19  patients  with  acute  symptoms  (ANAKINRA, 
MOLNUPIRAVIR). 

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the new measure consisting of financing the costs related to COVID-19 testing. RT-
PCR 
the  National  Program  for 
Surveillance  and  Control  of  Priority  Communicable  Diseases  are  performed  on 
categories  of  individuals  established  by  the  new  COVID-19  Acute  Respiratory 
Syndrome Surveillance Methodology or by order of the Minister of Health. 

testing  services  financed  under 

the new measure consisting of financing COVID-19 testing by family doctors for the 
detection of COVID-19 infection. The testing work carried out by family doctors is 
financed by transfers from the State budget, through the Ministry of Health’s budget 
to the budget of the Single national Health Insurance Fund. 

Romania provided the Commission with the relevant information.  

Taking into account the available evidence, the Commission proposes to the Council to adopt 
an  Implementing  Decision  to  extend  the  list  of  measures  for  which  the  Council  already 
granted financial assistance in Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355. 

The  new  measure  on  sick-leave  granted  to  quarantined  persons  and  persons  diagnosed  with 
COVID-19  infection  is  considered  as  similar  to  short-time  work  schemes,  because  of  its 
effects, in terms of protecting the employment contract, providing income support, and being 
related to COVID-19 pandemic.  

Health-related  measures,  as  requested  by  Romania,  including  the  additional  health-related 
measures  requested  on  26  May  2022,  amount  to  EUR 2 141 579 582.  Given  the  need  to 
ensure the ancillary nature of this category of measures, the amount of the financial assistance 
in support of health-related measures needs to be reduced as it should represent less than half 
of the total financial assistance planned to be spent on all eligible measures. 

the  request  of  Romania, 

Moreover,  following 
the  financial  assistance  granted  by 
to 
Implementing  Decision 
EUR 3 000 000 000.  Romania  remains  committed  to  fully  absorb  the  financial  assistance 
granted and should identify further eligible measures in case the existing measures included in 
this proposal prove insufficient. 

from  EUR 4 099 244 587 

(EU)  2020/1355 

reduced 

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Consistency with existing policy provisions in the policy area 

The present proposal is fully consistent with Council Regulation (EU) 2020/672, under which 
the proposal is made. 

The present proposal comes in addition to another Union law instrument to provide support to 
Member States in case of emergencies, namely Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 of 11 
November 2002 establishing the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) (“Regulation (EC) 
No 2012/2002”). Regulation (EU) 2020/461 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 
which amends that instrument to  extend its scope to  cover major public  health emergencies 
and to define specific operations eligible for financing, was adopted on 30 March 2020. 

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Consistency with other Union policies 

The proposal is part of a range of measures developed in response to the current COVID-19 
pandemic  such  as  the  “Coronavirus  Response  Investment  Initiative”,  and  it  complements 
other  instruments  that  support  employment  such  as  the  European  Social  Fund  and  the 
European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI)/InvestEU. By making use of borrowing and 
lending in this particular case of the COVID-19 outbreak for supporting Member States, this 
proposal  acts  as  a  second  line  of  defence  to  finance  short-time  work  schemes  and  similar 
measures,  helping  protect  jobs  and  thus  employees  and  self-employed  against  the  risk  of 
unemployment.  

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LEGAL BASIS, SUBSIDIARITY AND PROPORTIONALITY 

Legal basis 

The legal basis for this instrument is Council Regulation (EU) 2020/672. 

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Subsidiarity (for non-exclusive competence)  

The  proposal  follows  a  Member  State  request  and  shows  European  solidarity  by  providing 
Union financial assistance in the form of temporary loans to a Member State affected by the 
COVID-19  outbreak.  As  a  second  line  of  defence,  such  financial  assistance  supports  the 
government’s increased public expenditure on a temporary basis in respect of short-time work 
schemes  and  similar  measures  to  help  them  protect  jobs  and  thus  employees  and  self-
employed against the risk of unemployment and loss of income. 

Such  support  will  help  the  population  affected  and  helps  to  mitigate  the  direct  societal  and 
economic impact caused by the present COVID-19 crisis.  

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Proportionality 

The proposal respects the proportionality principle. It does not go beyond what is necessary to 
achieve the objectives sought by the instrument.  

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RESULTS 
CONSULTATIONS AND IMPACT ASSESSMENTS 

EX-POST 

EVALUATIONS, 

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STAKEHOLDER 

Stakeholder consultations 

Due to the urgency to prepare the proposal so that it can be adopted in a timely manner by the 
Council, a stakeholder consultation could not be carried out. 

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Impact assessment 

Due to the urgent nature of the proposal, no impact assessment was carried out. 

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BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS 

The  Commission  should  be  able  to  contract  borrowings  on  the  financial  markets  with  the 
purpose  of  on-lending  them  to  the  Member  State  requesting  financial  assistance  under  the 
SURE instrument.  

In  addition  to  the  provision  of  Member  State  guarantees,  other  safeguards  are  built  into  the 
framework in order to ensure the financial solidity of the scheme: 

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A rigorous and conservative approach to financial management; 

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A  construction  of  the  portfolio  of  loans  that  limits  concentration  risk,  annual 
exposure and excessive exposure to individual Member States whilst ensuring 
sufficient resources could be granted to Member States most in need; and 

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Possibilities to roll over debt. 

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2022/0205 (NLE) 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION 

amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355 granting temporary support under 
Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to Romania to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency 
following the COVID-19 outbreak 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, 

Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) 2020/672 of 19 May 2020 on the establishment of 
a  European  instrument  for  temporary  support  to  mitigate  unemployment  risks  in  an 
emergency (SURE) following the COVID-19 outbreak1, and in particular Article 6(1) thereof, 

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, 

Whereas: 

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Further  to  a  request  from  Romania  on  7  August  2020,  the  Council,  by  means  of 
Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/13552, granted financial  assistance to  Romania in 
the form of a loan amounting to a maximum of EUR 4 099 244 587 with a maximum 
average  maturity  of  15  years,  with  a  view  to  complementing  Romania’s  national 
efforts  to  address  the  impact  of  the  COVID-19  outbreak  and  respond  to  the 
socioeconomic consequences of that outbreak for workers and the self employed.  

The loan was to be used by Romania to finance the short-time work schemes, similar 
measures  and  health-related  measures,  as  referred  to  in  Article  3  of  Implementing 
Decision (EU) 2020/1355. 

The  COVID-19  outbreak  has  immobilised  a  substantial  part  of  the  labour  force  in 
Romania.  This  has  led  to  a  still  sudden  and  severe  increase  in  public  expenditure  in 
Romania  in  respect  of  new  measures,  namely  those  referred  to  in  recitals  (11),  (12) 
and (16) to (34), and measures referred to in Article 3 (a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and 
(i) of Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355.  

The COVID-19 outbreak and the extraordinary measures implemented by Romania in 
2020, 2021 and 2022 to contain that outbreak and its socioeconomic and health-related 
impact had and still have a dramatic impact on public finances. In 2020, Romania had 
a general  government deficit and debt of 9.3% and  47.2% of gross domestic product 
(GDP)  respectively,  which  changed  to  7.1%  and  48.8%  respectively  at  the  end  of 
2021.  According  to  the  Commission's  2022  spring  forecast,  Romania  is  expected  to 
have a general government deficit and debt of  7.5% and 50.9% of GDP  respectively 
by the end of 2022. Romania’s GDP is projected to increase by 2.6% in 2022. 

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Council  Implementing  Decision  (EU)  2020/1355  of  25  September  2020  granting  temporary  support 
under  Regulation  (EU)  2020/672  to  Romania  to  mitigate  unemployment  risks  in  the  emergency 
following the COVID-19 outbreak, OJ L 314, 29.9.2020, p. 55.  

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On  26  May  2022,  Romania  requested  the  Union  to  extend  the  list  of  measures  for 
which  financial  assistance  was  already  granted  by  Implementing  Decision  (EU) 
2020/1355 with a view to continuing to complement its national efforts undertaken in 
2020  to  address  the  impact  of  the  COVID-19  outbreak  and  respond  to  the 
socioeconomic  consequences  of  the  outbreak  for  workers  and  the  self-employed.  In 
particular,  Romania  introduced  and  further  extended  a  series  of  short-time  work 
schemes and similar measures set out in recitals (6) to (12).  
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  30/2020’3,  as  referred  to  in  Article  3(a)  of 
Implementing  Decision  (EU)  2020/1355,  provides  a  benefit  to  employees  of 
employers that reduce or temporarily interrupt their activity due to  the  effects  of the 
COVID-19 outbreak. The benefit is  capped at  75% of those  employees’  basic salary 
(but no more than 75% of the average gross salary in the economy) for the duration of 
the  state  of  emergency.  The  measure  has  been  extended  through  the  ‘Government 
Emergency  Ordinance  111/2021’4  and  through  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance 
2/2022’5 until March 2022. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  132/2020’6,  as  referred  to  in  Article  3(c)  of 
Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355, introduced a short-time work scheme, under 
which,  in  the  event  of  a  temporary  reduction  of  activity  caused  by  the  state  of 
emergency  or  alert,  the  employer  has  the  possibility  to  reduce  the  working  hours  of 
employees  by  up  to  50%.  During  the  period  of  working  time  reduction,  affected 
employees  benefit  from  an  indemnity  of  75%  of  the  difference  between  the  gross 
salary for normal working time and their actual salary. The measure has been amended 
and extended through the ‘Law 58/2021’7 until June 2022, three months after the end 
of the state of emergency. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  30/2020’8,  Article  15,  and  ‘Government 
Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’9, Article 3,  as  referred to  in  Article 3(d) and (e) of 
Implementing  Decision  (EU)  2020/1355,  introduced  two  measures  for  the  self-
employed  and  liberal  professions.  For  those  who  stopped  work  entirely  due  to  the 
effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, the State provides a benefit of 75% of the average 
gross  salary  for  the  duration  of  the  state  of  emergency.  For  those  who  reduce  their 
working hours, the State provides a benefit of up to 41.5% of the average gross salary 
until  June  2022,  three  months  after  the  end  of  the  state  of  emergency.  The  first 
measure, as referred to in Article 3(d) of Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355,  has  
been  extended  by  the  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  111/2021’10  and  the 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  2/2022’.The  second  measure,  as  referred  to  in 
Article  3(e)  of  Implementing  Decision  (EU)  2020/1355,  has  been  extended  by  the 
‘Law 58/2021’11. 

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Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 945 of 4 October 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 61 of 20 January 2022. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 720 of 10 August 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 345 of 5 April 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 231 of 21 March 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 720 of 10 August 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 945 of 4 October 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 345 of 5 April 2021. 

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‘Government Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’12, approved through ‘Law 282/2020’13, 
and  its  subsequent  amendments  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  182/2020’14, 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  211/2020’15  which  was  approved  through  ‘Law 
no.  58/2021’16,  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  220/2020’17,  ‘Government 
Emergency  Ordinance  226/2020’18,  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  44/2021’19, 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  111/2021’20  and  ‘Government  Emergency 
Ordinance  2/2022’21,  as  referred  to  in  Article  3(f)  of  Implementing  Decision  (EU) 
2020/1355,  introduced  a  measure  providing  a  support  allowance  of  35%  of  the  due 
remuneration  per  working  day,  for  a  maximum  period  of  three  months,  for  daily 
labourers who stop working as a result of the suspension of business activities due to 
the  effects  of  the  COVID-19  outbreak.  This  measure  was  extended  until  June  2022, 
three months after the end of the state of emergency. 
‘Law  19/2020’22,  Article  3,  as  extended  through  ‘Government  Emergency  Order 
147/2020’23,  Article  4  alin.  (3),  and  ‘Government  Emergency  Order  110/2021’24, 
Article  7,  as  referred  to  in  Article  3(h)  of  Implementing  Decision  (EU)  2020/1355, 
provided  a  childcare  bonus  for  employees  of  the  national  system  of  defence, 
penitentiaries, public health units and other categories of the public sector established 
through  ministerial  orders.  The  benefit  is  conditional  on  the  other  parent  not 
benefitting from alternative rights that grant days off to parents for the supervision of 
children in the event of the temporary closure of educational units. That measure can 
be  considered  to  be  a  similar  measure  to  short-time  work  schemes,  as  referred  to  in 
Regulation  (EU)  2020/672,  as  it  provides  income  support  to  employees,  which  will 
help to cover the costs of childcare during school closures and therefore help parents 
to continue working, preventing putting the employment relation at risk. The measure 
has been extended over time including the school years in 2021 and in 2022, and also 
broadened to include private sector employees. 
‘Law 136/2020’25 and its subsequent amendments as well as ‘Government Emergency 
Ordinance  70/2020’26,  Article  13,  which  are  referred  to  in  Romania’s  request  of  26 
May 2022, granted a sick-leave benefit to quarantined persons and persons diagnosed 
with COVID-19 infection. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  132/2020’27,  Article  6,  which  is  referred  to  in 
Romania’s  request  of  26  May  2022,  included  the  measure  for  a  one-time  financial 
support  of  RON  2 500  to  employers  for  each  employee  working  remotely  for  the 

Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 720 of 10 August 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1201 of 9 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 993 of 27 October 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1189 of 7 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 345 of 5 April 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1326 of 31 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1332 of 31 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 575 of 7 June 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 945 of 4 October 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 61 of 20 January 2022. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 209 of 14 March 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 790 of 28 August 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 945 of 4 October 2021. 
Published  in  the  Official  Monitor  of  Romania  no.  634  of  18  July  2020;  republished  in  the  Official 
Monitor of Romania no. 884 of 28 September 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 394 of 14 May 2020. 
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purchase  of  packages  of  technological  goods  and  services  necessary  for  teleworking 
activities.  The  measure  applies  for  employers  whose  employees  have  teleworked 
during the state of emergency for at least 15 working days in 2020. That measure can 
be  considered  to  be  a  similar  measure  to  short-time  work  schemes,  as  referred  to  in 
Regulation  (EU)  2020/672,  due  to  its  intended  purpose  and  economic  effect.  By 
facilitating  teleworking  in  the  context  of  the  COVID-19  pandemic,  it  helps  preserve 
the employment relationship. It also provides income support to employees in the form 
of a fringe benefit, helping to cover the costs of home office expenditure to allow the 
performance of work during lockdown and subsequent restrictions. 

(14) 

its  extensions 

(13)  Romania  also  introduced  and  further  extended  a  series  of  health-related  measures  to 
address  the  COVID-19  outbreak.  In  particular,  this  concerns  the  measures  set  out  in 
recitals (14) to (34). 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  11/2020’28,  and 
through 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  131/2020’29,  Article  2,  and  ‘Law  136/2020’30, 
Article  6’,  as  referred  to  in  Article  3(g)  of  Implementing  Decision  (EU)  2020/1355, 
provides a bonus for additional work for the personnel of the specialty structures of the 
National  Public  Health  Institute  and  the  county  public  health  directorates  and/or  the 
public  health  directorate  of  Bucharest  which  act 
towards  coordinating  and 
implementing  measures  for  the  prevention  and  limitation  of  events  related  to  the 
COVID-19 global public health emergency. The measure provides a benefit equivalent 
to  75%  of  the  basic  salary  for  hours  worked  over  the  normal  working  hours  and  to 
100% of the basic salary for hours worked on weekends, legal holidays and other days 
not  counted  as  working  days.  That  measure  can  be  considered  to  be  a  health-related 
measure, as  referred to  in Regulation  (EU) 2020/672. This  measure  was  extended in 
2020,  2021  and  2022  and  continues  to  be  in  force  as  long  as  the  WHO  qualifies 
COVID-19 as a global pandemic. 
‘Law  56/2020’31,  Article  7,  and  its  subsequent  amendment  through  ‘Government 
Emergency  Ordinance  116/2021’32,  as  referred  to  in  Article  3(i)  of  Implementing 
Decision  (EU)  2020/1355,  grants  as  a  temporary  measure  a  bonus  for  particularly 
dangerous  working  conditions  of  up  to  30%  granted  for  recognition  of  the  merits  of 
medical  personnel  that  participated  in  the  medical  actions  against  COVID-19.  The 
measure  was  in  force  for  the  period  March  2020  to  August  2020.  The  measure  was 
broadened  to  include  the  personnel  responsible  for  the  enforcement  of  sanitary 
measures under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  131/2020’33,  Article  1(1a)  and  (1b),  which  is 
referred  to  in  Romania’s  request  of  26  May  2022,  allows  the  granting  of  a  bonus 
between 30% and 40% of the basic salary to the personnel of the county public-health 
directorates  and  of  the  public-health  directorate  of  Bucharest.  The  executive  director 
and  the  deputy  executive  directors  shall  benefit  from  a  bonus  of  40%  of  the  basic 
salary;  the  civil  servants  employed  with  the  control  service  in  public  health  shall 
benefit from a bonus of 30% of the basic salary. 

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Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no.102 of 11 February 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 720 of 10 August 2020. 
Published  in  the  Official  Monitor  of  Romania  no.  634  of  18  July  2020;  republished  in  the  Official 
Monitor of Romania no. 884 of 28 September 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 402 of 15 May 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 951 of 5 October 2021. 
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‘Law no. 136/2020’34, Article 19(3), which is referred to in Romania’s request of 26 
May 2022, grants a secondment allowance amounting to 50% and a per diem bonus of 
2% of the basic salary for medical specialists, paramedical and auxiliary personnel in 
the  public  system.  The  allowance  is  for  the  personnel  seconded,  in  situations  of 
epidemiological or biological risk for a term of 30 days, to health units with shortages 
of personnel, and responsible for limiting and preventing the spread of COVID-19. 
‘Government Decision 254/2020’35, single article, ‘Government Decision 840/2020’36, 
single  article,  ‘Government  Decision  383/2021’37,  single  article,  ‘Government 
Decision 1072/2021’38 and ‘Government Decision 496/2022’39, which are referred to 
in  Romania’s  request  of  26  May  2022,  allowed  to  temporarily  finance  salary  costs 
related to the opening of 2 000 new positions to reinforce the health directorates and 
the public ambulance services (1 000 in each) to counteract the spread of COVID-19. 
‘Government  Decision  1035/2020’40,  single  article,  point  3,  which  is  referred  to  in 
Romania’s request of 26 May 2022,  grants a bonus of between 75% and  85% of the 
basic salary for the specialty medical personnel and auxiliary medical personnel from 
public  health  units  or  the  structures  thereof,  as  applicable,  and  for  the  specialty 
personnel  from  the  paraclinical  medical  structures  directly  involved  in  the  transport, 
equipment, assessment, diagnostic and treatment of patients diagnosed with COVID-
19. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  1031/2020’41  and  ‘Government  Emergency 
Ordinance  3/2021’42,  which  are  referred  to  in  Romania’s  request  of  26  May  2022, 
allowed  a  payment  to  the  medical-sanitary  personnel  and  of  the  registrars  that  carry 
out their activity within the vaccination centres organised in other locations than those 
within the health units. The measure also financed current and capital expenditures to 
make  the  vaccination  centres  (organised  in  locations  other  than  health  facilities) 
operational. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  3/2021’43  and 
‘Government  Decision 
1031/2020’44, which are referred to in Romania’s request of 26 May 2022, allowed a 
payment to the medical-sanitary personnel and of the medical registrars that carry out 
their  activity  within  the  vaccination  centres  against  COVID-19  organized  in  health 
units, as well as the payment of the family doctors for the activities provided for these 
purposes. 
‘Government Decision 1031/2020’45, which is referred to in Romania’s request of 26 
May  2022,  regulated  the  purchase  of  COVID-19  vaccine  doses.  The  framework 
agreements  have  been  concluded  by  the  European  Commission  on  behalf  of  and  for 
the EU Member States. 

Published  in  the  Official  Monitor  of  Romania  no.  634  of  18  July  2020;  republished  in  the  Official 
Monitor of Romania no. 884 of 28 September 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 272 of 1 April 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 924 of 9 October 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 335 of 1 April 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 951 of 5 October 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 357 of 11 April 2022. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1179 of 4 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1171 of 3 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 50 of 15 January 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 50 of 15 January 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1171 of 3 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1171 of 3 December 2020. 

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‘Government  Decision  201/2020’46,  ‘Government  Decision  1103/2020’47  and 
‘Ministry of Health Order 725/2020’48, which are referred to in Romania’s request of 
26 May 2022, regulated the expenses for the quarantine of people in designated areas 
with  confirmed  diagnosis  of  COVID-19,  or  people  in  the  list  established  by  the 
COVID-19  Surveillance  Methodology  and  medical  staff  diagnosed  with  COVID-19 
who do not require hospitalisation or staff that interacted with patients and  choose to 
stay away from their home. The measure covers general allowances (for items such as 
food, accommodation, transport and medicines). 

1092/2020’49, 

‘Government  Decision 

380/2021’50, 
‘Government  Decision 
‘Government  Decision  1017/2021’51  and  ‘Government  Decision  1190/2021’52  
allowed  the  purchase  of  the  medication  ‘Remdesivir’  and  of  monoclonal  antibodies 
medicine  for  COVID-19  treatment  that  contains  Casirivimab  and  Imdevimab.  The 
procurement  procedures  for  both  medications  have  been  conducted  by  the  European 
Commission on behalf of the Member States within framework contracts53 which are 
referred to in Romania’s request of 26 May 2022. 
‘Ministry of Health Order 487/2020’54, which is referred to in Romania’s request of 26 
May  2022,  allowed  the  purchase  of  medications  for  the  treatment  of  COVID-19 
infected  patients.  The  Ministry  of  Health  concluded  a  framework  contract  for  the 
procurement of ‘Tocilizumabum’. 
‘Government  Ordinance  19/2021’55  and  ‘Law  55/2020’56,  which  are  referred  to  in 
Romania’s request of 26 May 2022, lined out the provision of incentives, in the form 
of meal vouchers in the amount of RON 100, to persons vaccinated with the complete 
scheme. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  131/2020’57,  Article  5,  which  is  referred  to  in 
Romania’s request of 26 May 2022, allowed a temporary increase of 30% of the basic 
salary for the staff of the prefect’s institutions involved in preventing and fighting the 
effect of COVID-19 for the period from August 2020 to February 2021. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  186/2020’58,  which  is  referred  to  in  Romania’s 
request of 26 May 2022, covered the  expenditures of 200 additional resident doctors 
needed further to the pandemic. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  11/2020’59,  which  is  referred  to  in  Romania’s 
request  of  26  May  2022,  allowed  the  purchase  of  medical  products  and  personal 
protective  equipment  for  the  fight  against  the  pandemic  (e.g.,  protective  footwear, 

Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 224 of 19 March 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1259 of 18 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 350 of 30 April 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1251 of 17 December 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 328 of 31 March 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 935 of 30 September 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1081 of 11 November 2021. 
Framework  agreement  –  SANTE/2020/C3/048  for  ‘Remdivisir’  and  Framework  agreement  – 
SANTE/2020/C3/091 for monoclonal antibodies medicine. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 242 of 24 March 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 834 of 31 August 2021. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 396 of 15 May 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 720 of 10 August 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1005 of 29 October 2020. 
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gloves,  masks,  ventilators,  stretchers,  etc.)  to  establish  and  consolidate  emergency 
medical stocks. 
‘Law 319/2006’60, ‘Law 55/2020’61 and the ‘Ministry of Labor and Ministry of Health 
Joint Order 3577/831/2020’62, which are referred to in Romania’s request of 26 May 
2022, regulated the purchase of sanitary protection materials for the employees of the 
Ministry of Internal Affairs. 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  197/2020’63,  which  is  referred  to  in  Romania’s 
request  of  26  May  2022,  allowed  payments  to  volunteer  medicine  students  who 
worked for hospitals/health care institutions to provide emergency support. 
‘Ministry of Health Order 487/2020’64, which is referred to in Romania’s request of 26 
May 2022, allowed the purchase of two pharmaceutical products (‘Molnupiravir’ and 
‘Anakinra’)  which are used for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. 
‘Law  95/2006’65,  Article  51,  ‘Government  Decision  155/2017’66  and  ‘Ministry  of 
Health Order 377/2017’67 which are referred to in Romania’s request of 26 May 2022, 
regulated  the  funding  of  testing  for  COVID-19  at  the  level  of  specialized  units.  RT-
PCR laboratory testing services financed under the National Program for Surveillance 
and  Control  of  Priority  Communicable  Diseases  are  performed  on  categories  of 
individuals  established  by  the  new  COVID-19  Acute  Respiratory  Syndrome 
Surveillance Methodology or by order of the Minister of Health. 
‘Ministry of Health Order 58/4/2022’68, which is referred to in Romania’s request of 
26  May  2022,  regulated  the  funding  of  testing  by  family  doctors  for  detection  of  a 
COVID-19  infection.  The  testing  work  carried  out  by  family  doctors  is  financed  by 
transfers from the State budget, through the Ministry of Health’s budget to the budget 
of the Single national Health Insurance Fund. 

that 

(35)  Romania fulfils the conditions for requesting financial assistance set out in Article 3 of 
Regulation  (EU)  2020/672.  Romania  has  provided  the  Commission  with  appropriate 
evidence 
increased  by 
the  actual  and  planned  public  expenditure  has 
EUR 3 321 482 911  as  of  1  February  2020  due  to  the  national  measures  taken  to 
address  the  socioeconomic  effects  of  the  COVID-19  outbreak.  This  constitutes  a 
sudden  and  severe  increase  because  it  is  related  also  to  both  new  measures  and  an 
extension of existing measures directly related to short-time work schemes and similar 
measures that cover a significant proportion of undertakings and of the labour force in 
Romania.  Romania  intends  to  finance  EUR 353 704 624  of  the  increased  amount  of 
expenditure through Union funds. 

(36)  The Commission has consulted Romania and verified the sudden and severe increase 
in  the  actual  and  planned  public  expenditure  directly  related  to  short-time  work 
schemes  and  similar  measures,  as  well  as  the  recourse  to  relevant  health-related 

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Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 646 of 26 July 2006. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 396 of 15 May 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 403 of 16 May 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 1108 of 19 November 2020. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 242 of 24 March 2020. 
Published  in  the  Official  Monitor  of  Romania  no.  372  of  28  April  2006;  republished  in  the  Official 
Monitor of Romania no. 652 of 28 August 2015. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 222 of 31 March 2017. 
Published in the Official Monitor of Romania no. 223 of 31 March 2017. 
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measures related to  the COVID-19 outbreak,  as  referred to  in  the request  of 26 May 
2022, in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2020/672. 

(37)  The  health-related  measures  requested  by  Romania,  including  the  additional  or 
extended  health-related  measures  referred  to  in  recitals  (14)  to  (34),  amount  to 
EUR 2 141 579 582. Given the need to ensure the ancillary nature of this category of 
measures, the amount of the financial assistance in support of health-related measures 
needs to be reduced as it should represent less than half of the total financial assistance 
planned to be spent on all eligible measures. 

(38)  Financial  assistance  already  granted  by  Implementing  Decision  (EU)  2020/1355 
should therefore also cover the new measures referred to in recitals (11), (12) and (16) 
to (34). 

(39)  The financial assistance granted by Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355 is reduced 
from EUR 4 099 244 587 to EUR 3 000 000 000. Romania remains committed to fully 
absorb the financial assistance granted and should identify further eligible measures in 
case the existing measures in this proposal prove insufficient. 

(40)  Romania  and  the  Commission  should  take  this  Decision  into  account  in  the  loan 

agreement referred to in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EU) 2020/672. 

(41)  This Decision should be without prejudice to the outcome of any procedures relating 
to  distortions  of  the  operation  of  the  internal  market  that  may  be  undertaken,  in 
particular  pursuant  to  Articles  107  and  108  of  the  Treaty.  It  does  not  override  the 
requirement  for  Member  States  to  notify  instances  of  potential  State  aid  to  the 
Commission under Article 108 of the Treaty. 

(42)  Romania should inform  the Commission on a regular basis of the implementation of 
the planned public expenditure, in order to enable the Commission to assess the extent 
to which Romania has implemented that expenditure. 

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:  

Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1355 is amended as follows:  

Article 1 

(1) 

Article 2 is amended as follows: 

(a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:  

‘1.  The  Union  shall  make  available  to  Romania  a  loan  amounting  to  a  maximum  of 
EUR 3 000 000 000. The loan shall have a maximum average maturity of 15 years.’; 

(2) 

Article 3 is replaced by the following:  

Romania may finance the following measures: 

‘Article 3 

(a) 

the  technical  unemployment  benefit  to  employees  of  employers  that  reduce  or 
temporarily  interrupt  their  activity,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government  Emergency 

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Ordinance 30/2020’, Article XI, as extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 
111/2021’, in turn extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 2/2022’; 

the  benefit  applied  for  persons  whose  employment  contract  was  suspended,  as 
provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 92/2020’, Article I;  

the short-time work scheme, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 
132/2020’, Article 1, as amended and extended by ‘Law 58/2021’;  

the benefit similar to that referred to in point (a) for categories other than employees, 
including  self-employed  and  liberal  professions,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government 
Emergency  Ordinance  30/2020’,  Article  XV,  as  extended  by  ‘Government 
Emergency  Ordinance  111/2021’,  in  turn  extended  by  ‘Government  Emergency 
Ordinance 2/2022’; 

the benefit provided by ‘Law No 6/2020 on State Social Insurance budget for 2020’ 
for other categories than employees, including self-employed and liberal professions, 
as  provided  for  in  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  132/2020’,  Article  3,  as 
amended and extended by ‘Law 58/2021’; 

amendments 

‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance 

the support allowance to daily labourers as provided for in ‘Government Emergency 
Ordinance  132/2020’,  Article  4,  approved  through  ‘Law  282/2020’,  and  its 
182/2020’, 
subsequent 
‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  211/2020’  (approved  through  ‘Law  no. 
58/2021’), ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 220/2020’, ‘Government Emergency 
Ordinance  226/2020’,  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  44/2021’,  ‘Government 
Emergency Ordinance 111/2021’, and ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 2/2022’, 
and respectively for the ‘Government  Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’ through the 
‘Law 58/2021’; 

the bonus in respect of additional work for the personnel of the specialty structures of 
the National Public Health Institute and the county public health directorates and/or 
the  public  health  directorate  of  Bucharest,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government 
Emergency  Ordinance  11/2020’,  Article  8(6),  as  extended  by  ‘Government 
Emergency Ordinance 131/2020, Article 2’ and ‘Law 136/2020, Article 6’; 

the  childcare  bonus  granted  to  employees  of  the  national  system  of  defence, 
penitentiaries, public health units and other categories established through ministerial 
orders, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 30/2020’, Article I(6); 
as  extended  by  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  147/2020,  Article  4(3)’  and 
‘Government Emergency Ordinance 110/2021, Article 7; 

the  bonus  in  respect  of  particularly  dangerous  conditions  granted  in  recognition  of 
the merits of medical personnel, as provided for in ‘Law No 56/2020’, Article 7, as 
extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 116/2021’; 

the  sick-leave  benefit  granted  to  quarantined  persons  and  persons  diagnosed  with 
COVID-19  infection,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Law  136/2020’,  and  amended  by 
‘Government Emergency Ordinance 70/2020’, Article 13; 

the one-time financial support granted to employers for employees in order to carry 
out  teleworking  activities,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance 
132/2020’, Article 6; 

the bonus of 30% and 40% of the basic salary granted to the personnel of the county 
public-health  directorates  and  of  the  public-health  directorate  of  Bucharest,  as 
provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 131/2020, Article 1(1)’; 

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the granting of a secondment allowance amounting to 50% and a per diem bonus of 
2% of the basic salary for medical specialists, paramedical and auxiliary personnel in 
the public system, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 136/2020, 
Article 19(3)’; 

the temporary financing  of salary costs related to the opening of 2 000 positions  to 
reinforce the health directorates and the public ambulance services (1 000 in each), to 
counteract  the  spread  of  COVID-19,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government  Emergency 
Ordinance  254/2020,  single  article’,  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  840/2020, 
single  article’,  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance  383/2021,  single  article’, 
‘Government Decision 1072/2021’ and ‘Government Decision 496/2022’;  

the granting of a bonus of 75% to 85% of the basic salary for the specialty medical 
personnel and auxiliary medical personnel from public health units or the structures 
thereof  and  for  the  specialty  personnel  from  the  paraclinical  medical  structures 
directly involved in the transport, equipment, assessment, diagnostic and treatment of 
patients  diagnosed  with  COVID-19,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government  Emergency 
Ordinance 1035/2020, single article, point 3’; 

the  payment  of  the  medical-sanitary  personnel  and  of  the  registrars  who  carry  out 
their  activity  within  the  vaccination  centres  organised  in  other  locations  than  those 
within  the  sanitary  units,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government  Emergency  Ordinance 
1031/2020’ and ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 3/2021’; 

the  payment  to  the  medical-sanitary  personnel  and  to  the  medical  registrars  who 
carry out their activity within the vaccination centres against COVID-19 organised in 
health units, as well as the payment of family doctors for the activities provided for 
these purposes,  as provided for in  ‘Government  Emergency Ordinance  3/2021’ and 
‘Government Decision 1031/2020’; 

the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine dose, as provided for in  ‘Government  Decision 
1031/2020; 

the expenses for the quarantine of people with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19, 
people  established  by  the  COVID-19  Surveillance  Methodology  and  medical  staff 
diagnosed with COVID-19 who do not require hospitalisation or staff that interacted 
with  patients  and choose to  stay  away from  home, as provided for in  ‘Government 
Decision  201/2020’,  ‘Government  Decision  1103/2020’  and  ‘Ministerial  Order 
725/2020’; 

the purchase of medications (Remdesivir), as provided for in ‘Government Decision 
1092/2020’,  ‘Government  Decision  380/2021’,  ‘Government  Decision  1017/2021’ 
and ‘Government Decision 1190/2021’. 

the purchase of medications (Tocilizumabum), as provided for in ‘Ministry of Health 
Order 487/2020’; 

the  purchase  of  monoclonal  antibodies  medicine  for  COVID-19  treatment  that 
contains  Casirivimab  and  Imdevimab,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government  Decision 
1092/2020’,  ‘Government  Decision  380/2021’,  ‘Government  Decision  1017/2021’ 
and ‘Government Decision 1190/2021’. 

the meal vouchers for the persons who are vaccinated with the complete vaccination 
scheme  in  the  amount  of  RON  100,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government  Ordinance 
19/2021’, amending ‘Law 55/2020’; 

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(x) 

(y) 

(z) 

(aa) 

(bb) 

(cc) 

(dd) 

(ee) 

(ff) 

the  30%  basic  salary  increase  for  the  staff  of  the  prefect’s  institutions  involved  in 
preventing  and  fighting  the  effect  of  COVID-19,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government 
Emergency Ordinance 131/2020, Article 5’; 

the  expenditures  to  cover  200  additional  resident  doctors  needed  further  to  the 
pandemic, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 186/2020’; 

the  purchase  of  medical  products  and  personal  protective  equipment  for  the  fight 
against the pandemic (e.g., protective footwear, gloves, masks, ventilators, stretchers, 
etc.), as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 11/2020’; 

the purchase of sanitary protection materials for personnel, as provided for in ‘Law 
319/2006’,  ‘Law  55/2020’,  and  ‘Ministry  of  Labor  and  Ministry  of  Health  Joint 
Order 3577/831/2020’; 

the  payments  to  volunteer  medicine  students  who  worked  for  hospitals/health  care 
institutions  to  provide  emergency  support,  as  provided  for  in  ‘Government 
Emergency Ordinance 197/2020’; 

the  purchase  of  medications 
for 
(ANAKINRA), as provided for in ‘Minister of Health Order 487/2020’; 

treatment  of  COVID-19 

the 

infections 

the  purchase  of  medications 
(MOLNUPIRAVIR), as provided for in ‘Minister of Health Order 487/2020’; 

treatment  of  COVID-19 

the 

for 

infections 

the financing of COVID-19 testing at the level of specialised units, as provided for in 
‘Law 95/2006, Article 51’, ‘Government Decision 155/2017’ and ‘Ministry of Health 
Order 377/2017; 

the financing of COVID-19 testing by family doctors, as provided for in ‘ Ministry of 
Health Order 58/4/2022’; 

(3) 

Article 4 is replaced by the following:  

‘Article 4 

1.   Romania  shall  inform  the  Commission  by  30  March  2021,  and  every  six 
months thereafter of the implementation of the planned public expenditure until 
that planned public expenditure has been fully implemented.  

2.  Where  measures  referred  to  in  Article  3  are  based  on  planned  public 
expenditure  and  have  been  subject  to  an  Implementing  Decision  amending 
Implementing  Decision 
the 
Commission within six months after the date of adoption of that decision, and 
every  six  months  thereafter  of  the  implementation  of  the  planned  public 
expenditure until that planned public expenditure has been fully implemented.’. 

(EU)  2020/1355,  Romania  shall 

inform 

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This Decision is addressed to Romania. 

Done at Brussels, 

Article 2 

For the Council 
The President 

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