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 Multiannual Investments Single Plan
 The financial resources necessary for carrying out the actions to achieve the objectives related to accession to Schengen Area are provided in the Multiannual Investments Single Plan, document for the implementation of the National Strategy for the Integrated Management of State Border.
This document was approved by the Romanian Inter-Ministerial Group for Integrated State Border Management (RIGISBM) on 12.06.2007.
The Single Plan is annually reviewed and permits the Romanian authorities to monitor the progress made for accession to the Schengen area. The Single Plan contains investments for equipment and infrastructure, also investments complementary/correlated to borders control.
From the point of view of covered areas, there are separately presented:
- investments strictly bound to border management, destined to Romanian Border Police and National Customs Authority, fundamental institutions for border management;
- connected investments, out of the wide framework of integrated border management, having as beneficiaries the other ministries/national authorities with different attributions in the field
The monitoring and control of carrying out the actions included in the Single Plan, as implementation document of National Strategy, are regulated by provisions of Government Decision no. 943/2001, republished, on setting up RIGISBM.
Schengen Facility
According to the Decision of the European Comission C(2007) 1417, „The cash-flow and Schengen Facility is a temporary instrument designed to help the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania, to finance actions at the new external borders of the Union for the implementation of the Schengen acquis and external borders control within the period of the date of accesion and the end of 2009’’.
According to Article 2 of the Decision of the European Comision C(2007) 1417 on the management and control of the Schengen part of the cash-flow and Schengen facility the following types of action shall be eligible for financing under the Schengen part of the cash-flow and Schengen facility within the period 2007-2009:
a) investment in construction, renovation or upgrading of border crossing infrastructure and related buildings;
b) investments in any kind of operating equipment (e.g. laboratory equipment, detection tools, Schengen Information System (SIS 2), hardware and software, the creation of the IT systems needed to implement Schengen, means of transport);
c) training of border guards;
d) support to costs for logistics and operations, including payment of the salaries of the personnel required to fulfill the obligations of the beneficiary Member State in respect of Schengen acquis.
In order to be eligible, actions must fall entirely or principally within the Schengen acquis and be designed to further strengthen and upgrade external border control and must:
a) be physically located at the external borders, or
b) be related to the protection of the future external borders in cases where they are physically located at the external borders.
Expenditure in respect of actions financed under Schengen Facility shall be committed, and any contracts shall be signed, no later than 31 December 2009. All the actions must be carried out (i.e. the services must be provided, the goods delivered and the work performed) by 31 December 2010.
At the level of Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform was drafted the Indicative Programme, which represents the document of strategic planning and financial programming, aiming to guide and stimulate the activity of accession to the Schengen Area.
The two objectives pursed for fulfilling 2007-2009 Indicative Programme are:
1.strengthening control at external borders, of the capacity of surveillance at external borders, also of the capacity of protection against cross-border crime,
2. enhancing control abilities by increasing the capacity of data storage and widening the access to information.
The Schengen Facility Indicative Programme 2007-2009 has been endorsed by Government Decision no.715 of 02 July 2008.
Every year, Romania will review the Indicative Programmes.
Government Decision no. 895 on August 1st 2007 was adopted setting up the institutional framework for financial planning, coordination, implementation and evaluation of funds granted to Romania under Schengen Facility.
Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform was designed the Authority responsible for Schengen Facility, which is responsible for the coordination of the implementation of Schengen Facility funds.
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