| 22 23 | Pastry and snacks The trade deficit: Recommendations: The pastry and snack industry has a trade deficit of over 320 million euros. • Development of financing lines for irrigation; • Regulating sugar imports from crops treated with neonicotinoids and limiting sugar imports from markets providing different subsidies or mechanisms to reduce the selling price, thus creating unfair competition; • Granting state subsidies for the promotion of products for export; • The transposition of European laws into Romanian legislation so as not to affect the producers; • Traceability of all imported products; • Rethinking the scoring criteria for funding projects, so that the food industry and other sectors can achieve minimum scores for the eligibility criteria; • Extending the shelf life of unpackaged bakery products; • Designing financing schemes aimed at certain sectors or sub-sectors of activity in the bakery industry; • Launching financing projects specifically intended for products that meet the 3RO criteria. Spirits and beer The trade deficit: Recommendations: The spirits and beer industry is a net contributor to the state budget. A series of actions and measures taken by the government can significantly improve the trade balance. • Implementing Law 17/2014 regarding the exercise of the right to pre-emption in order to be able to use the existing infrastructure, but also the alignment of excise duty with similar levels in neighboring EU member states and the adaptation of excise duties to the purchasing power of consumers; • Guaranteeing an official sales channel for distilled products in people's households; • Establishment of joint ANAF - GARANT commissions for controls in the territory; • Involvement of customs representatives to reduce bureaucracy in the process of obtaining tax stamps; • Restoring the standards regarding this industry by people from the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Ministry of Health; • Settling a state aid scheme at the Ministry of Economy for the alcoholic beverages industry.
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