Romania: Financing for both farmland afforestation and windbreaks through NRRP PNRR

"Financing will be granted both to new forests as well as to windbreaks, and woodland from the NRRP will not enter the forestry stock, they will fall under a category of agroforestry use, they cannot be exploited, cannot be cut for 20 years. We will complement the financing with a carbon trapping bonus. In this sense, we adopted a GEO [Government emergency ordinance] some weeks ago (...) We have already received some observations and proposals for completion of this ordinance, I agree to extend it to forests that are being set up at the moment, meaning 2021-2022, and if someone has already started an afforestation process of agricultural land they benefit from the carbon trapping bonus. This will be 456 euro/ha/per year, for 20 years. This way we are practically creating an economic advantage in comparison to agricultural land and we will ensure at least a bonus similar to subsidies in agriculture. Essentially, this has been the largest issue in the past 15 years," said Tanczos Barna, when asked if windbreaks are part of the forestry stock and if they're eligible for financing through the afforestation measure of the NRRP.