JURIDICAL-FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS ON THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FUND.

Worldwide the financial resources oriented to the ecological area are still undersized against the necessities. An eventual recalibration depends directly on the economical growth. In Romania, the Environment Fund is built according to the European principles „polluter pays" and „producer responsibility", to implement environmental protection rules. The state entity which is responsible for the management of the Environmental Fund is the Environmental Fund Administration, a public institution with legal status, financed from their own revenue, which is under the Minister of Environment and Forests coordination. It is noted that, given the commitments on Chapter no. 22, Environmental Fund Administration continued financing those environmental projects that have started in previous years and launched new sessions of financing for national projects, aiming for national, regional and local social-economic benefits. The projects financed by the Environmental Fund aim to promote sustainable development and to cover an important segment of the environmental problems which Romania faces right now, creating jobs and entailing multiple components of the secondary economical sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]