Investments for a safe region (ROBG-135)
Investments for a safe region Giurgiu County and Ruse District
What’s the goal?
To improve the joint risk management in the cross-border area by providing superior technical conditions that will have a major positive impact on the response speed of the emergency activities and missions in Giurgiu-Ruse region.
What’s the budget?
5,059,800.83 euro, out of which 4,300,830.70 euro ERDF
Who is doing it?
Lead Beneficiary (LB): TAU Giurgiu County (Romania)
Beneficiary 2 (B2): Fire Safety and Civil Protection Directorate General – Ministry of Interior (Bulgaria)
When is it happening?
Start date: 30.03.2017
End date: 29.01.2023
Duration: 70 months
Where is it happening?
Giurgiu in Romania
Ruse in Bulgaria
How is it going to happen?
- Construction works and endowments: Technical Material Base for Increasing The Response Speed in Emergency situations – Giurgiu; First Regional Office Fire Safety and Civil Protection – Ruse;
- Events;
- Trainings;
- Information and publicity;
- Procurement of specific equipment.
What will be the results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs: 1 joint partnership in the field of joint early warning and emergency response; 515,000 people benefiting from actions of risk management, flood protection measures and forest fire protection measures.
Programme results: increasing the efficiency of emergency situations interventions, performed in a shorter time, with less or no blockages, lower costs of operations and more secure equipment to be used in the rescuing missions.
Project status
The project is currently in the 61st month of its implementation period.
LB received the technical project and started the construction works for the investment objective - Technical Material Base for Increasing the Response Speed in Emergency situations – Giurgiu, at the beginning of April 2021. Considering the status of execution of works for the main investment in January 2022 was at 36,56% and that the approvals from APA SERVICE, DISTRIGAZ and ENEL were obtained, there are no risks identified regarding the implementation of the project.
B2 finalized the works on the investment objective – “First Regional Office Fire Safety and Civil Protection - Ruse (First ROFSCP-Ruse)”.
LB organized training courses for the staff of the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, with the qualification of “auto mechanic” (3 participants x 720 h), with a duration of 6 months.