Decision of the Government of Romania on the approval of the criteria for the delimitation of mountain areas

ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT DECISION On the approval of the criteria for delimitation of the mountain area Based on the Stipulations of Art.107 of the Romanian Constitution The Romanian Government adopts the following Decision. Art.1 – Mountain areas are those areas characterized by considerable limitation of the possibilities to use lands and by a high increase of the costs for working these lands, due to: a) the existence of some especially difficult climatic conditions, determined by altitudes of more than 600 meters, whose effect is the shortening of the growing season; b) the presence, at a lower altitude, on most of the agricultural lands, of slopes of more than 20 degrees, slopes that are too steep to use agricultural equipment or require the use of expensive equipment; c) a combination of the factors mentioned above, for the cases where the disadvantage of each factor taken separately is less acute, but the combination of these two factors results in an equivalent disadvantage. Art.2 – (1) The delimitation up to the level of commune, respectively up to the level of the component villages, according to the criteria stipulated in Art. 1, as well as the list of the urban and rural municipalities in the mountain areas are to be set by a common order of the minister of Agriculture, Food and Forests and of the minister of Public Administration, within 6 months from the date this decision will be in force, based on the common proposals of the general divisions for agriculture and food industry, land improvement county offices within the county councils in the counties with mountain area, nominated in the Annex which is part of the present Decision. (2) – The delimitation of the mountain area, approved according to paragraph 1, is to be written down in the agricultural books of the cities, towns or communes situated in the mountain area and transposed in the specialized land improvement plans. Prime Minister ADRIAN NASTASE Countersigning: Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forests Ilie Sarbu Minister of Public Finances Mihai Nicolae Tanasescu Minister of Public Administration Octav Cozmanca Minister of European Integration Hildegard Carola Puwac Bucharest, September the 5th 2002 List of the counties with mountain area 1. Alba 2. Arad 3. Arges 4. Bacau 5. Bihor 6. Bistrita-Nasaud 7. Brasov 8. Buzau 9. Caras-Severin 10. Cluj 11. Covasna 12. Dambovita 13. Gorj 14. Harghita 15. Hunedoara 16. Maramures 17. Mehedinti 18. Mures 19. Neamt 20. Prahova 21. Satu Mare 22. Salaj 23. Sibiu 24. Suceava 25. Timis 26. Tulcea 27. Valcea 28. Vrancea