The Silva Federation will hold, on Thursday, together with the railway transport unions and those of the army reservists within the National Trade Union Confederation Meridian, a protest rally in front of the headquarters of the Romanian Government, in the Victoriei Square.
"Through this protest action, the forestry unions are sounding an alarm and asking the Romanian Government not to proceed with the draft GD regarding the reorganisation of Romsilva, promoted by the Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests. This project is not done professionally and, in the proposed form, we believe it's dangerous for the country's forests," unionists explain in a press release.
According to the same source, the aforementioned project cannot be adopted because it is not based on any kind of study - neither regarding it's economic impact, nor it's social or budgetary impact.
"The public consultation on this project ended without any clear conclusion. But if this project is adopted, the Romanian forestry sector will be put at risk. The proposals of the relevant ministry are aberrant, they have no technical or managerial arguments at their base. Thus, the abolition of over 50% of the county forestry directorates, the separation of production activities with the aim of maintaining only the "economically profitable and efficient" ones, the ignoring of social, organizational and functional aspects or the abolition of the 22 natural and national park administrations and the merging into a "mammoth" structure based in Bucharest, show either that the project is one developed by amateurs, or that it serves interests different from those of the Romanian state," the document states.
At the same time, the trade unionists are asking the Government to establish a working group made up of forest management specialists from the Ministry of Environment, from RNP-Romsilva, from professional organizations of foresters, as well as representatives of the Silva Trade Union Federation, as a social partner, to develop an organizational and operational regulation that would ensure the strengthening and not the dismantling of this national interest agency.
The Minister of Environment, Waters and Forests announced at the end of last month that he had rejected the budget proposal that the National Forest Agency (RNP) Romsilva had communicated to the ministry, and that the number of directors would decrease from 121 to approximately 17 under the institution's reorganisation plan.
The official also mentioned that he is undertaking the reform of Romsilva "from top to bottom," in order to "ensure a more flexible management structure, by reducing the number of directors by 86%.
He added that, with the reform of Romsilva, the 22 administrations of the National Parks will unite into a single entity, with a single director and a single support Directorate.
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