ROMANIA – BIOEAST

National Contact Point

MARIA ANGHEL
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
General Department for Policies in Food Industry and Trade
maria.anghel@madr.ro

VERONICA TARAN BACIU
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
General Director, National Agency for Mountain Area
veronica.baciu@azm.gov.ro

MAURA HERINEAN
Permanent Representation of Romania to the European Union
maura.herinean@rpro.eu

The BIOEAST Initiative’s National Contact Point (NCP) is the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. One of the NCP’s main roles at national level is to interact and coordinate the national views with other bioeconomy related ministries.

Description

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is the central public administrative authority responsible with the application of the governance program and strategy, with role into elaboration and implementation of sectorial national strategy in the following domains: agriculture and food industry, rural development, land reclamation, and conexe domains, such as: specialty scientifical researh, preservation and sustainable management of the soils and both vegetal and animal genetic resources as well as bioeconomy.
One of the major objectives refers to sustaining agricultural research, information and farm advisory services in agriculture. As regards the bioeconomy area, the MARD’s Long and Medium term Strategy for RDI has as main goals: evaluation of long and medium term feasibility of national bio-economic potential to produce non-food bioresources under impact of global climate changes; eco-innovative approaches to develop new agricultural technologies.
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development grants sectorial research projects into joining RD units, universities and professional organizations having in view complete and complex