ANALYSIS OF ABSORPTION CAPACITY OF EU FUNDS IN ROMANIA

This paper attempts to assess, over one year before the likely date of Romania’s accession to the EU, how well prepared this country is from this point of view. However, an ex-ante assessment is difficult attempt. Some aspects may actually only be analyzed ex-post. That is why the paper shall only attempt to assess the administrative absorption capacity during the planning/creation of systems adequate for the management, programming and implementation. The authors do not claim that this study makes a pharmaceutical assessment of the current absorption capacity. Nevertheless, we believe that we proposed a coherent approach, and succeeded to identify some important elements related to the administrative capacity and suggested viable measures for its development. As a first attempt of its kind in Romania, the paper wishes to be rather an invitation for discussion.