Instruction for suspending the submission of projects

Objectives:
- Capitalizing natural resources for tourism;
- Diversifying the touristic services;
- Improving the quality of accommodation services;
- Creating / expanding the leisure tourism structures in order to increase the number of tourists and the length of stay.

Categories of eligible beneficiaries:
For the public tourism infrastructure (that does not full under state aid)
- Authorities of the local public administration;
- Partnerships between the authorities of the local public administration;
- Intercommunity Development Agencies.
For the public/private tourism infrastructure (that falls under state aid)
- Authorities of the local public administration;
- Partnerships between the authorities of the local public administration;
- Intercommunity Development Agencies;
- SMEs in the field of tourism and/or related activities;
- Partnerships between the authorities of the local public administration and the NGOs in the field tourism and/or related activities.

Indicative eligible activities within the project can be:
For public tourism infrastructure (that does not fall under state aid)
- Setting up natural touristic objectives with touristic potential
- Capitalizing the potential of the mountain tourism
- DDeveloping the balneal tourism
For the public-private tourism infrastructure (that falls under state aid)
- Developing balneal tourism
- Creating, rehabilitating and expanding the recreational infrastructure, related utilities included

The financial allocation for this area of intervention in the Bucharest- -Ilfov region is of 20.47 million Euros.

The second call for projects was launched on October 30th, 2009. The projects can be submitted starting as of November 23rd, 2009.