10.03.2017

Romania's environment ministry has set up a working commission to look into introducing a new tax on pollution to be charged for second-hand cars, environment minister Gratiela Gavrilescu said more

10.27.2015

Representatives of local carmakers Dacia and Ford on Tuesday said Romania has too many old cars, despite the government-backed cash-for-clunkers program, and they keep adding to air pollution levels more

11.26.2014

Industrial air pollution in Romania generated, between 2008 and 2012, costs on health and environment of EUR25 billion-EUR80 billion, as thermal power station Turceni is the third biggest polluting more

03.12.2013

After three years and over EUR3 billion investments in 2,000 MW of wind energy, Romania is polluting more than it did before the 800 turbines were put in place. more

02.14.2013

The percentage of cars less than two years old has declined significantly in the past six years, from 23% in 2007, the boom year of the local car market, to 3% in 2012, according to data from the Car more

01.29.2013

The environmental stamp duty computational formula complies with the requirements of the European Commission and will help reduce imports of polluting cars, says Brent Valmar, vice-president of the more

01.23.2013

Romania’s Government proposes a new formula to compute the car pollution tax, which increases by about 10% the sum to be paid for Euro 4 and Euro 3 cars, and lowers by 60% to 90% the tax to be paid more

01.04.2013

Romania will keep its car registration tax and will not replace it with an environmental tax, for the time being. more

05.22.2012

About four kilometers of Romanian river water have been polluted, as an oil pipe belonging to company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) fissured Tuesday. more

01.16.2012

More than 2 million Romanians will no longer be able to sell their cars, which are registered before 2007, because of the new pollution tax, which in the case of older cars amounts to at least half more

01.10.2012

Romanian car owners for whom the car pollution tax paid since July 1, 2008 is higher than the tax according to the new system may request a refund of the difference, but this refund will also be more

01.04.2012

Voted by the Parliament on December 15, the new pollution tax that made Romanians rush to the car registration offices last month in order to avoid paying it has yet to come into force. The more

10.31.2011

The European Union will introduce a pollution tax on apartment heating systems "in 2013 or 2015," said Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely. more

10.04.2011

The administration committee in Romania’s Senate on Tuesday approved the Government’s bill that changes the current car pollution tax. more

09.28.2011

Romania, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia will request, in the Environment Council on October 10, the creation of a special EU fund for rapid intervention in serious pollution incidents, minister Lazlo more

09.28.2011

Romania will apply the car pollution tax currently in effect until 2013, Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely said Wednesday at a conference organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry. more

08.31.2011

Romania's Government has approved the new car pollution tax bill, drafted by the Environment Ministry, which says the tax is to be reduced by as much as 25%, but also charged on the sale of cars more

07.07.2011

Romania’s pollution tax on cars, including its amendments introduced in December 2009, is contrary to EU law, the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg decided Thursday, while also more

07.05.2011

Romania's Government will make a decision regarding the new version of the car pollution tax in the next two weeks, while considering a new idea – to introduce a general pollution tax applicable to more

06.18.2011

The new bill on Romania's car pollution tax no longer mentions July 1, 2011 as the date for the new tax's implementation and, with the upcoming parliamentary summer recess, cannot be adopted earlier more

06.08.2011

Romanian border police officers Wednesday afternoon reported an oil spill in the Danube River in the Varciorova region in the southwestern Romanian county of Mehedinti. more

05.18.2011

Romania's Government has decided to amend the car pollution tax again in a few weeks, after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judged it in violation of community legislation. more

05.18.2011

The Romanian Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected as groundless the unconstitutionality claims targeting certain provisions of Government Emergency Ordinance 50/2008 on car pollution tax. more

05.17.2011

Romanian greenhouse gas emissions dropped to 47.3 million tons in 2010, from 48.6 million tons a year earlier, official data showed Tuesday. more