Policies for the Future of Farming and Food in Romania

Acronyms and Abbreviations

AAFS	Academy for Agricultural and Forestry Sciences
AKIS	Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System
AFIR	Agency for Rural Investment Financing
ANC	Areas of Natural Constraints
APIA	Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture
APO	Associations of producer organisations
AWU	Annual Working Unit
BISS	EU Basic Income Support for Sustainability
CAD	County Agricultural Directorate
CAP	Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union
CCEIAN	Consultative Council for the Impact Assessment of Normative Acts
CCT	EU Common Customs Tariff
CIS	EU Coupled Income Support
CIS-YF	EU Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers
CMO	EU Common market organization
CNDP	Complementary national direct payments
CPVO	Community Plant Variety Office
CRISS	EU Complementary redistributive income support for sustainability
CSP	CAP Strategic Plan
DESI	EU Digital Economy and Society Index
DIGIT	Digital, innovative and green technologies project
EAFRD	European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
EAGF	European Agricultural Guarantee Fund
EC	European Commission
EEA	European Economic Area
EFA	Ecological Focus Areas
EFSA	European Food Safety Agency
EGD	European Green Deal
EIP	European Innovation Partnership
EPO	European Patent Organisation
EQF	European Qualifications Framework
ERDF	European Regional Development Fund
ESF	European Social Fund
ESIF	European Structural and Investment Funds
ETS	Emissions Trading System
EU	European Union
EUFRAS	European Forum for Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services
EUR	Euro
FAS	Farm Advisory Service
FCFS	First-come-first-served
FDI	Foreign Direct Investment
FEBA	European Food Banks Federation
FNVA	Farm net value added
FRMP	Flood Risk Management Plan
FSC	Forest Stewardship Council
FTTP	Fibre to the Premises
FVA	Foreign Value Added
GAEC	Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition
GATT	General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GBARD	Government Budget Allocation for Research and Development
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GDPR	EU General Data Protection Regulation
GERD	Gross Domestic Expenditure on Research and Development
GHG	Greenhouse Gas
GII	Global Innovation Index
GM	Genetically modified
GSP	Generalised Scheme of Preferences
GSSE	General Service Support Estimate
GVA	Gross Value Added
GVC	Global value chain
HNV	High Nature Value
HS	Harmonised System
IBO	Inter-branch organisation
ICT	Information and communication technologies
IP	Intellectual property
IPM	Integrated pest management
IPARD	Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance - Rural Development
IPR	Intellectual property rights
ISPA	Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession
ISTIS	State Institute for Variety Testing and Registration
LAG	Local Action Group
LDC	Least-developed countries
LEADER	Liaison Entre Actions de Développement de l’Économie Rurale
LGP	Local gastronomic point
LIFE	EU Funding Instrument for the Environment and Climate Action
LTS	Long-term strategy
LUCAS	EU Land Use and Land Cover survey
LULUCF	Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry
MARD	Romania’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
MFN	Most-favoured nation
MRID	Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation
N	Nitrogen
NAAC	Agency of Agricultural Consultancy
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NALI	National Agency for Land Improvement
NARW	National Administration “Romanian Waters”
NAV	Non-ad valorem tariffs
NAZ	National Agency for Zootechny
NCES	National Circular Economy Strategy
ND	Nitrates Directive
NDM	New delivery model
NECD	National Emission Reduction Commitments Directive
NGA	Next Generation Agenda
NGO	Non-governmental organisation
NH3	Ammonia
NRDP	National Rural Development Program
NRRP	National Recovery and Resilience Plan
NSDA	National Strategy for Digital Agenda
NSP	National Strategic Plan
NTM	Non-tariff measure
P	Phosphorus
PHARE	Programme of Community Aid to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe
PMR	Product Market Regulation
PO	Producer organisation
POSEI	Programmes dʼOptions Spécifiques à lʼEloignement et à lʼInsularité)
PSE	Producer Support Estimate
RASFF	Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed
RBC	Responsible Business Conduct
RBMP	River Basin Management Plan
RDA	Regional Development Agency
RDP	Rural Development Programme
RIA	Regulatory Impact Assessment
RRF	EU Recovery and Resilience Facility
OG	Operational Groups
SAPARD	Special Accession Programme for Rural Development
SDA	State Domains Agency
SDG	Sustainable Development Goals
SFS	EU Small Farmers Scheme
SME	Small and Medium Enterprise
SMR	Statutory Management Requirement
SNCISI	National Strategy for Research, Innovation and Smart Specialisation
SOC	Soil organic carbon
SPA	Special Protection Area
SPS	Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
SSG	Special agricultural safeguard
SUMAL	Integrated National Information System for Tracking Wood
SWOT	Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
TBT	Technical barriers to trade
TFP	Total Factor Productivity
TiVA	Trade in Value Added
TNA	Transitional national aid
TRIPS	Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
TRQ	Tariff rate quota
TSE	Total support estimate
UAA	Utilised agricultural area
UN	United Nations
UNFSS	UN Food Systems Summit
UPOV	International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
USD	US Dollar
VAT	Value added tax
VET	Vocational education and training
VCS	EU voluntary coupled support
WFD	Water Framework Directive
WTO	World Trade Organization
YFP	EU Young Farmer Payment