Starting From the Year 2007 Romania is Going to Get Its Supplies From the EU

According to the specialists, starting from the year 2007, Romania will become the commodity market of the close countries in the EU.

The Romanian lands have been conquered by the food coming from abroad. Tomatoes, cucumbers, apples or potatoes coming from Turkey, sirloins or chops coming from Poland, flour paste wares, conserves, sauces have invaded the Romanian market. DEPENDENCY Unfortunately, the Romanian products, coming from the peasents or from the factories, aren’t sold in the same manner in the foreign countries. That is why the compensation rate between the import and the export is subunitary: 18.40% for the gammons and for the sausages, 27.64% for the oils and the vegetable and animal fats, 31.14% for the dairy products. "Romania is a net importer, having an average compensation rate between the import and the export of 19.9%", stated Cezar Mereuta, the vice-president of the Romanian Economical Adaptability Centre.

CONSUMERS

And this dependency will emphasize once we get closer to the year 2007. "The EU needs consumers, not producers", argues the economic analyst Ilie Serbanescu. The only niches that the Romanian peasant could exploit after the integration are the ones in the pork, oil, sweet oil and margarine industry, says Cezar Mereuta. This is because the European imports for these products are way above the exports. "However, we must not forget that actual members of the EU, like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, are already great pork carcass producers", pointed out Ilie Serbanescu. "I believe that we only have the goat’s milk and meat to export. There’s no way for us to export cow’s milk or pork", he also said.

ECOLOGIC

The ecologic products could also mean a chance for Romania. "In Romania there are parcels very well prepared in order to be used for the ecologic agriculture. With our traditional agriculture we won’t stand a chance in the EU, but with the ecologic one we will", stated Nastasia Belc, the general director of the Alimentary Bioresources Institute. "I don’t give it a chance", says Ilie Serbanescu, on the other hand. That’s because in Romania it is hard to give up on the chemical products for good and here there are a lot of cultures of genetically modified crops which would polluate the ecologic plantations.

PRICES

"The prices for the agricultural-alimentary products are going to be very high, because they will include the costs for the environment, for the vegetarian-sanitary standards and the operative costs which include the rise in the energy and fuel prices", says Ilie Serbanescu. The factories won’t have an easy living either. "It is going to be very hard for the operators who don’t know and who are not prepared for what’s going to happen, for the ones who don’t have a working capital and, this way, no investment capital in order to compete with the European giants", he believes. "The Romanian companies are not going to be competitive because they won’t be able to offer high-quality products for reasonable prices, and the urban consumer can’t settle for high prices", he concluded.