{"id":3700,"date":"2025-02-13T07:59:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2025-02-13T07:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:59:38","slug":"ec-urges-romania-to-cut-payment-arrears-towards-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3700","title":{"rendered":"EC urges Romania to cut payment arrears towards pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission decided on Wednesday, February 12, to issue a reasoned opinion to Romania for failing to correctly apply the regulations of EU Directive 2011\/7 on combating late payments in commercial transactions, according to a statement from the Community Executive quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economica.net\/comisia-europeana-cere-romaniei-sa-plateasca-la-timp-companiile_810037.html?mc_cid=2b21e391ab&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Economica.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Directive requires public authorities to pay their suppliers on time, setting a positive example in the fight against poor payment behaviour in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commission, the Romanian public health insurance body is significantly delaying payments to independent pharmacies for medicines supplied to patients under the national health insurance system.<\/p>\n<p>The delay in payments by the Romanian authorities is negatively affecting the entire supply chain and risks leading to the bankruptcy of Romanian pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cineberg Ug\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission decided on Wednesday, February 12, to issue a reasoned opinion to Romania for failing to correctly apply the regulations of EU Directive 2011\/7 on combating late payments in commercial transactions, according to a statement from the Community Executive quoted by Economica.net. The Directive requires public authorities to pay their suppliers on time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}