Corina Crețu, acting President of the Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Enterprise Performance (AMEPIP), chaired yesterday a working meeting with OECD representatives to present the progress made by AMEPIP in terms of good governance in the eight months since its establishment, in the context of Romania’s accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Corina Crețu assured OECD representatives that AMEPIP’s results and progress in good governance are “concrete and visible“. She also provided information on the operationalization of the AMEPIP, which currently has a team of 57 highly trained officials and has its own income that will guarantee uninterrupted activity for the next two years, regardless of any decisions by the Government to cut budget spending.
In a statement to CaleaEuropeana.ro, AMEPIP Interim President Corina Crețu said that “the effective operationalization of AMEPIP is a priority recommendation and is considered an umbrella recommendation in relation to the other four accession requirements.”
According to the former European Commissioner for Regional Policy, AMEPIP is responsible for ensuring transparent and competitive selection procedures for managers of public enterprises: “The total number of selection procedures finalized at central level is 49, which is a first and important concrete result of AMEPIP’s functioning and, implicitly, of the implementation of good governance rules in Romania“, she added.
Last but not least, AMEPIP also monitors financial and non-financial performance, as well as the state of implementation of transparency and reporting requirements: “In this respect, the Dashboard is essential. It allows for accurate and reliable data collection and continuous monitoring of performance indicators”, explains Corina Crețu.
“AMEPIP is implementing the OECD’s priority recommendations in full, as set out by the Working Party on State Ownership and Privatization Practices and the Corporate Governance Committee,” concludes AMEPIP Acting President Corina Crețu.
Romania’s accession to the OECD is a strategic foreign policy objective that has received cross-party support from previous Romanian governments. Our country formally applied for OECD membership in April 2004, and its application was renewed in November 2012 and has been renewed annually since 2016. On January 25, 2022, the OECD Council decided to grant candidate status to Romania.
Romania is currently in the technical phase of the assessment process, which consists of submitting additional information, organizing thematic missions and making presentations to the 26 OECD Sectoral Committees that are essential to the process.
In a statement at the end of last year, Luca Niculescu emphasized that Romania should be a member of the OECD in 2026 if things continue at the current pace, as the process is very dynamic.
About AMEPIP:
The Agency for the Monitoring and Evaluation of the Performances of Public Enterprises (AMEPIP) is organized and functions as a specialized body of the central public administration, with legal personality, subordinated to the Government and coordinated by the Prime Minister, through the General Secretariat of the Government.
AMEPIP has the role of establishing the corporate governance policy, of coordinating the implementation of the rules in the field at the level of public guardianship authorities, of monitoring and evaluating them, respectively of applying sanctions for identified deviations.
