The Government to set up in 2020 the Agency for Quality and Marketing of Agri-Food Products | Progresiv
Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, promulgated on July 11 the Law establishing the set up of the Agency for Quality and Marketing of Agri-Food Products, a project initiated in June 2018 by several PSD lawmakers and adopted by the Chamber of Deputies a year later. 
The new institution will be subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and will aim to "encourage the production of agri-food products certified according to a voluntary quality system and ensure a proper marketing of these products" - as the law says.
The Agency's activities include: developing and implementing marketing programs for certified Romanian products according to a voluntary quality system, promoting these products on foreign markets, offering consultancy to economic operators in the agri-food sector, authorizing imports of organic food products from the European Union, approving applicants' requests for the use of the "ae" logo – Ecologic Agriculture etc.
The Agency staff will be made up of civil servants and contract staff and its funding will be made from the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The law will enter into force on January 1st, 2020.
