Senior Adviser in the Department for Strategy and Programs Coordination with the Ministry of Development, Public Works and Housing (MDLPL), on the occasion of the Conference on Structural Funds in Romania. “We asked interested parties to come up with projects in all intervention fields of ROP priority axes, with the exception of the first priority intervention axis - Supporting the sustainable urban development - going to be launched in November 2008”, according to MDLPL  official. “A number of 132 transport infrastructure projects were submitted, in a total value of approx. EUR 1.57 bn. The asked amount is of approx. EUR 1.28 bn, 37% higher than the funds allocated to this priority axis on the entire program period, of EUR 876.7 mn”. In the transport field, a number of 17 projects have been contracted or are in a finalization stage, whose overall value exceeds EUR 257 mn,
according to the quoted source. The amount from non-reimbursable funds for the 17 projects is of more than EUR 200 mn, accounting for 23% of the total earmarked for this ROP axis.