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The Romanian Prime Minister, Emil Boc, and the Minister of Communications and Information Society, Gabriel Sandu, launched the eRomania project on 16 June 2009.
The project has been designed in a way to include the following two dimensions:
The portal and the e-Romania project serve the purpose of making the Public Administration more efficient by offering quality services based on the current needs and realities of the Romanian society. It aims, among others, at bringing the Public Administration closer to its citizens by decentralising services, elevating the government efficiency level and reducing administrative costs.
The eGovernment services featured on the e-Romania portal are expected to cut costs by 30 % in the first stage. In the longer term, a 70 % reduction is foreseen.
On the occasion of the official launch, Prime Minister Boc said: "The Communication Ministry brings a money and time saving for citizens, placing Romania into the orbit of modernisation. At the moment, there are more than 12 million Internet consumers in the country. There are more than 12 million Romanians waiting for this program in order to avoid queues, not to waste money anymore, tired of queuing at different institutions to pay taxes, or simply get information."
Over the four months that preceded the launch of eRomania, the Ministry of Communications and Information Society succeeded in achieving growth in the number of eAuctions via the Electronic System of Public Acquisitions (SEAP), from under 2 % to over 12 % of the total number of auctions.
As a result, while procedures of approximately 2.5 billion RON (approx. €591 million) were initiated by the public authorities, 2 billion RON (approx. €473 million) were actually awarded, thus representing a saving of over 500 million RON (approx. €118 million) for the Romanian authorities. It is envisaged that the share of electronic auctions will reach 20 % in the next months.
On another note, the number of public authorities present on the National Electronic System (SEN) - the infrastructure of the eGovernment portal www.e-guvernare.ro - increased from 800 to 4 000 in the four months that preceded the launch of eRomania.
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