Public Disclosure Authorized ROMANIA Advisory Services Agreement on Strengthening Planning and Budgeting Capacity and Supporting the Introduction of Performance Budgeting Public Disclosure Authorized OUTPUT NO. 6 Institutional Strategic Plan 2019-2022 for the Ministry of Transport September 2019 Public Disclosure Authorized Project co-financed from the European Social Fund through the Operational Programme Administrative Capacity 2014-2020 Public Disclosure Authorized Copyright Statement The material in this publication is copyrighted. Copying and/or transmitting portions of this work without permission may be a violation of applicable laws. For permission to photocopy or reprint any part of this work, please send a request with the complete information to either: (i) the General Secretariat of the Government (1 Victoriei Square, Bucharest, Romania); or (ii) the World Bank Group Romania (Vasile Lascăr Street, No 31, Et 6, Sector 2, Bucharest, Romania). This report was submitted during the month of July 2019 in accordance with the Advisory Services Agreement on Strengthening Planning and Budgeting Capacity and Supporting the Introduction of Performance Budgeting concluded between the Secretariat General of the Government (SGG) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development on 8th of July 2016. It is corresponding to the Deliverable no 6 according the agreement mentioned above. CONTENTS Preamble ...........................................................................................................................................9 Executive summary .......................................................................................................................... 10 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 14 Background ......................................................................................................................................... 14 Methodology ....................................................................................................................................... 15 Stage of implementation of the ISP .................................................................................................... 16 2. Context .................................................................................................................................... 28 3. Mission and vision .................................................................................................................... 35 Mission of the Ministry ....................................................................................................................... 35 Vision of the Ministry .......................................................................................................................... 35 4. Strategic Objectives, Programmes, Measures and Indicators ...................................................... 36 Strategic Objective 1: A national transport system with a high economic efficiency, supporting the national economic competitiveness ................................................................................................... 36 Programme 1.1. Reinforcement of the institutional framework for an increased economic efficiency of the national transport system ...................................................................................................... 49 Programme 1.2. Increase the competitiveness of the system of public service for passenger rail transport ........................................................................................................................................... 59 Programme 1.3. Increase of the competitiveness of the railway transport by restoring the performances of the public railway infrastructure at their originally designed level ...................... 63 Programme 1.4. Increase of the reliability of rail transport services by the improvement of public rail infrastructure maintenance and operation management ......................................................... 71 Programme 1.5. Ensure the regional connections with the main road transport axes and support the cross border connections ........................................................................................................... 76 Programme 1.6. Reinforcement of the passenger urban transport system .................................... 77 Strategic Objective 2: A national transport system integrated in the Single European transport Area ............................................................................................................................................................. 79 Programme 2.1. Increase of the rail transport competitiveness by the increase of performances of the infrastructure manager and their alignment with European standards .................................... 88 Programme 2.2. Development of the road infrastructure along the main national and international transport corridors ........................................................................................................................... 99 Programme 2.3. Increase of the operational capacity or Airport and ATM services ..................... 102 Programme 2.4. Increase the operational capacities of the Danube River and Ports ................... 104 Strategic objective 3: Optimize the performance of the Ministry of Transport to provide better services to the public ........................................................................................................................ 107 3 Programme 3.1. Improve the administrative capacity for transport policy management and implementation .............................................................................................................................. 109 5. Arrangements for Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of the ISP ................................ 111 6. Financial Resources ................................................................................................................. 114 Annex 1a. Budgetary Objectives and Programmes for 2019-2022 (Th. lei) ........................................ 117 Annex 1b. Programes, Measures and Budget allocations 2019-2022 ................................................ 118 Annex 2. Intstitutional Strategic Plan (summary table) .................................................................... 131 Annex 3. Programmes and their related Measures (summary table) ................................................ 141 Annex 4. Information on ISP components ....................................................................................... 226 Annex 4.1. Institutional profile ......................................................................................................... 226 Annex 4.2. Policies and strategies ..................................................................................................... 227 Annex 4.3. Organizational chart ........................................................................................................ 228 Annex 4.4. Relevant national legislation ........................................................................................... 231 Annex 4.5. Relevant European and international legislation............................................................ 235 Annex 5. Draft Regulatory Acts 2019 .............................................................................................. 238 4 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Organization of the Strategic Planning process at the level of the Ministry of Transport ............ 9 Figure 2. Strategic Objective 1: Structure ................................................................................................... 43 Figure 3. Strategic Objective 1: Impacts and Results .................................................................................. 47 Figure 4. Replacing the current ground transport logistic chain for small shipments ............................... 53 Figure 5. Containerized intermodal ground transport for small shipment ................................................ 54 Figure 6. Logistic chain for containerized intermodal ground transport for small shipments ................... 54 Figure 7. Replacing the current logistic chain implemented in the transport of maritime containers concerning small shipments ....................................................................................................................... 55 Figure 8. Operating the logistic chain of container intermodal ground transport for small shipments .... 55 Figure 9. Proposals for the implementation of equal interval timetable rail passenger services .............. 60 Figure 10. Variation of the defect rate and effects of maintenance activities ........................................... 65 Figure 11. Maintenance cycle for rail infrastructure components ............................................................. 66 Figure 12. Present situation of Romania rail infrastructure according to its maintenance cycle completion .................................................................................................................................................................... 67 Figure 13. Effects of the programmes of rehabilitation of rail infrastructure, modernisation and /or renewal, over a 10 year horizon ................................................................................................................. 69 Figure 14. Definition