Consiliul Judetean Braila

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Braila County

• at a glance

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• " Braila, city and county, represent a space of
  vivacity and energy in the countrys life.
•  Only the bravest and the meekest Romanians could
  resist there, under the Turks.
• After the liberation, the only people who ran
  there were the ones able to be the founders and
  the defenders of the new order of life.   Thus, a
  Braila race was born. This race keeps on
  existing, no matter how long the families would
  interfere with the immigrants. Both in culture
  and politics, this race presents its qualities
  that the country, apathetic, needs more than
  ever. The youth has a duty to carry out here,
  that cannot be confused with the others one
• NICOLAE IORGA

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Situated on the left bank of the Danube river,
with a venerable age of 638 years, Braila has
always represented the place where water and land
join in harmoniously and the sun pours its
richness of light and warmth. The geographical
position is very generous both for the county and
for the municipality, Braila being situated in
the south-eastern part of the country, between
the coordinates of 44 44' and 45 30' north
latitude and 27 04' and 28 10' east longitude,
on a surface of 4.766km2. In the Plain, Braila
County occupies, in the north, a part of the
Meadow of the Lower Siret , close to which the
Baraganului Plain spreads, in the west, small
parts of Salcioara Plain and Buzaului Plain, and
in the east the Big Island of Braila. It can be
said that the county is surrounded by the waters
of some important rivers such as Siret, Buzau,
together with the old river of the Danube that,
splitting into two branches, make the Big Island
of Braila.

• There are 44 administrative-territorial units in
  Braila County, among which Braila municipality, 3
  towns (Faurei, Ianca, Insuratei) with 11
  localities and 40 communes 131 villages.
• The population of the county, on the 18th of
  March 2002, was of 373.174 inhabitants, from
  which more than 66 were in the urban area (239.
  108 inhabitants).
• The administrative seat is Braila municipality,
  the last port on the Danube it is situated 200
  km north-east of Bucharest. Braila is located on
  46o 16 17 north latitude and 27o 58 33 east
  longitude.

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It is interesting to mention that Braila, due to
its position and history, has always had a
cosmopolite character, of cultural and ethnic
mosaic, given by the presence of numerous
ethnical communities on this land. Former
Turkish raya for a period of more than three
centuries, being in the way of the Russian,
Austrian, Turkish, Romanian wars, Braila was
destroyed and reborn out from its own ash many
times.
The real flourishing of the town took place after
the Adrianopolis Treaty in 1829, when Braila
rejoined the mother country. During the second
half of the 19th century and the first decades of
the 20th century, Braila made remarkable
progress, first of all economically. The
cohabitation of Romanians, Greeks, Bulgarians,
Russians, Armenians and Jews offered a
picturesque note to this important port of the
Danube, as a space of genuine European
civilisation.
The Free Zone statute obtained in 1836
created good conditions for a very intensive
transit trade, a great amount of Romanian and
foreign goods being brought in Brailas
ware-houses, both for import and export. Due to
its favorable position , Braila was last
important seaport on the Danube where maritime
ships could come. The city knew its golden period
between 1836 and 1894, when it became a turn
table in the international trade changes on the
Lower Danube. History, as well as the commercial
benefits, turned the city into a place where many
nationalities met and lived together. A large
number of Romanian and foreign merchants,
English, French, Greek, Italians, Jews, Lippovans
came to Braila, finding here the people and the
space that helped them to keep their own
religions and traditions.
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At Braila some premieres were recorded, such
as one of the first Romanian cities that used
public lighting, reinforced concrete was used for
the first time for building wharves and piers,
the first electric plant was built only thirteen
years after Edisons invention, Braila was the
first Romanian city to have electric trams. All
these place Braila in the vanguard of the cities
of the time.
From old times, Brailas inhabitants have always
had agriculture, breeding and fishing on the
western bank of the Danube as main activities. A
sailing ship. the symbol of Braila city , was
also the symbol of the trade, the main activity
of the inhabitants of this area. In 1836, Braila
was declared porto-franco. Here were opened the
first Chamber of Commercial Arbitration (1836),
the Exchange of Goods and Cereals (1882), the
Commercial Court and the Commercial Bank. Due to
its economical boom, Braila became one of the
most important commercial centres of Romania. The
intensive trade and the industrial development
during the 18th century and the beginning of the
19th century marked Brailas history. In 1911,
year of maximum commercial activity, Brailas
trade represented 22 of the Romanian trade and
20 of import This development meant steam mills,
pasta factory, shipyard (1864), beer factory
(1872) and docks (1883). The first foreign
investment in Braila was done in 1924 the
Franco-Romanian Company. Between 1941-1944,
during the World War l, both the import and the
export in Braila decreased, after the 12th
General Congress of the Romanian Cities Union
from 1937, when it was reached the apogee.
Brailas history will dramatically change between
the two moments the 23rd of August 1944 the
22nd of December 1989.
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Braila is not a museum city, but its visitors
can feel its magic, legends and history that are
present everywhere. After 2000, the results of a
too ambitious, unrightfully and disproportioned
industrial development appeared. Many of the most
important industrial units closed their doors
partially or even totally. This fact led to the
depreciation of the living level and the citys
development, more than in the rest of the
country. If the accent in the economical life
had been put on the port for centuries, during
the next period, after the Liberation, when the
communist regime was installed, this accent was
put on the industry a strong one that will
become established through the machines and
equipments construction, ship building, chemical
industry, ready-made clothes, food industry etc.
Braila trade marks, as Promex, Braiconf have
become well-known in the country and abroad,
making the county to be placed on the 9th
position in the country, according to its
population and economy.
The climate is temperate-continental, slightly
excessive in the west and moderate in the Siret
Meadow and Brailas Big Island. Being situated
close to the Black Sea, Braila County has annual
average temperatures of over 10oC (1.5oC higher
then the rest of the plain). Annual rainfall is
low (on average 4,651 l/sq m) and has a teeming
character in summer.
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The underground resources include liquid and
gaseous hydrocarbons loess deposits constitute
the raw material for inferior ceramics. The water
and mud of salty lakes have special therapeutic
qualities, spas being built nearby, but only that
of Lacu Sarat is functioning at present. In
Insuratei town, a thermal sulphurous spring, with
special therapeutic qualities, was properly
fitted, having a flow rate of 280 cu m in 24
hours and an exit temperature of 60o. The plain
is the predominant relief form, Brailas
landscape being rather monotonous and without any
natural barriers.
Although forests occupy only a small part of the
area of the county (5.5), most of them being
meadow forests, Viisoara and Camnita forests have
been declared reservations, the former for its
300 hectares which represent the relic of oak
forests from the right bank of the Calmatui, and
the latter, for its pure ash trees, spread on an
area of 1.3 ha. The flora and fauna are
characteristic to lowlands. The steppe, once
stretching endlessly, was turned into farmland,
Braila County being one of the most developed
counties in Romania as concerns agriculture.

• The tourist patrimony of Braila County
  comprises historical, ethnographic and folkloric
  elements, Panait Istrati Memorial House,
  Nicapetre Cultural Centre (the former House of
  Art Collections), the Museums of the towns of
  Braila and Ianca, Blasova Creation Camp, the Art
  Galleries, Pro Arts Hall, Braila Historical
  Centre, Petre Stefanescu Goanga Memorial House.
• The main tourist areas are Lacu Sarat resort,
  Brailas Small Island, Blasova, Viisoara forest.
• The network of tourist establishments is made up
  of 13 hotels, 3 motels and inns, 4 camping
  facilities, 2 camps for pupils and preschoolers.

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• Brailas Small Island, a real inland delta,
  stretching on an area of 15,000 ha, was declared
  a mixed natural reservation of flora and fauna.
  The geographical conditions allow the
  co-existence of three types of vegetation,
  specific to the swamp, to the forest and to the
  steppe.
• .Lake Jirlau (8.9 sq km) is known as an
  ornithological sanctuary, a fact for which it was
  mentioned, together with the Danube Delta and
  other habitats all over the country, on the list
  of those 2440 aquatic fauna areas of European
  importance Important bird areas in Europe
  published in 1989 in England.

On Brailas Big Island, created by the drainage
of Brailas Swamp, one can see Popina Blasova,
a proof of the herzynisch erosion of the Dobruja
Mountains, acknowledged in 1994 as a natural
monument, where two species of milfoil with
yellow flowers and a species of bell flower grow,
being specific to the Dobruja Mountains.
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• Even if it is not in an area with a maximum
  tourist importance, Braila county offers many
  possibilities for active partnerships due to the
  natural resources, on one hand , and to the
  direct connection to the Danube, on the other
  hand.
• Thus, there are considered as adequate
• ? the extension and the modernization of the
  tourist structures in Lacu Sarat Resort
• ? giving the Caineni Bai resort, situated on
  the area of Visani commune, back to the tourist
  circuit
• ? the integration in the tourist circuit of
  Movila Miresii Salt Lake, situated at 30 km away
  from Braila municipality, close to the commune
  with the same name.
• ? the putting in good use of the thermal
  springs from the area of Insuratei town and
  Bertestii de Sus commune, their water presenting
  therapeutical qualities similar to the ones from
  Herculane and Felix resorts.
• Braila county has a special tourist potential
  that, if it is put in good use, may represent an
  important element of the social-economical
  development of the county and of its contribution
  to the national tourism.

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• Related to the culture, Braila county has a
  network of specialized institutions. Thus, there
  are 215 libraries, 5 cultural houses, 101
  cultural institutions, 7 cinemas, 2 theatres and
  a musical institution.
• The most important part in Brailas cultural life
  is played by Maria Filotti Dramatic Theatre,
  Carabus Puppet Theatre, the Vocational School
  and Braila History Museum , the last one having
  an impressive age of 125 years and an impressive
  collection of historical and archaeological
  objects and being considered one of the greatest
  cultural institutions from Romania.
• Maria Filotti Theatre is the most interesting
  cultural objective of the city. Built in the
  middle of the 19th century and renovated in the
  80 s, the building stands out of the others
  through its architectonical value and the
  artistic embroidery of the curtain, a real piece
  of art, considered unique in Europe, due to its
  style (beads and golden thread, representing the
  sun and the moon, the laughter and the
  crying).The visitors can also see the huge
  painted-window from the monumental hall of the
  building. On the other hand, the importance of
  this building was confirmed when the theatre was
  included in the UNESCO album, together with the
  most representative buildings in Europe, destined
  to the human spirituality.

• On the memory of the well-known soprano, Hariclea
  Hartulary Darclée, beginning with August 1995,
  every year the International Canto Festival with
  her name has been taking place at Braila.
• A great interest in the cultural life of Braila
  is presented by the Panait Istrati Memorial
  Exhibition, opened in 1984, with the occasion of
  the centenary of the famous writers birth, named
  Gorki of the Balkans by Romain Rolland.

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• The historical section of Braila Museum has a
  special fund of historical and archaeological
  collections, through which there can be seen the
  bronze helmet discovered at Gavani Braila,
  representing the traco-getic culture.
• At the House of Art Collections, among the 3000
  pieces of plastic and decorative art, there can
  be noticed works of a great value, made by
  Theodor Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, Theodor
  Pallady, Nicolae Tonitza, Henry Catargi and
  others.
• The monumental sculpture is represented by the
  Emperor Trajans bronze statue with stone and
  marble bed-plate from the Saint Archangels
  Square and Ecaterina Teodoroius statue also made
  of bronze.

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• The Saint Archangels Mihail and Gavriil Curch
  with an age of 250 years, is a Turkish pray house
  turned into an Orthodox Church, keeping its
  rectangular shape, reproducing the Mohammedan
  mecets type.That is why it is one of the rare
  European Orthodox churches without a derrick.
• The Lippovans Metropolitan Church the
  international centre of the old communion is
  also in Braila municipality.
• During the time, but especially between the two
  World Wars, many personalities of the Romanian
  and European civilisations were born in
  Brailas schools, especially in Nicolae
  Balcescu National College philosophers Nae
  Ionescu and Anton Dumitriu, geriatrician Ana
  Aslan, geologist Gh.M.Murgoci, cybernetics
  engineer Edmond Nicolau, writers Panait Istrati,
  Panait Cerna, Anton Bacalbasa, Mihail Sebastian,
  D.P.Perpessicius, Fanus Neagu lyrical artists
  Hariclea Hartulary Darclée, Petre Stefanescu
  Goanga actors Maria Filotti, Irina Rachiteanu
  Sirianu, Stefan Mihailescu Braila.

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• Access
• This area has accessible transport roads, Braila
  County being situated at the intersection of two
  European transport corridors IV and IX. As
  concerns land transport we can mention the
  European roads E 60, E 577. Being situated on the
  left bank of the Danube, the county also benefits
  from the advantages of river navigation.
• Braila County is linked to all the other regions
  of the country by roads and railways. The
  distance from Bucharest is 220 km measured on
  DN2B road. The railway to Bucharest has the same
  route and the distance is quite the same.

• Taxation
• The TAV is the same all over the country 19.
• The local taxes are pretty lower relative to
  other regions of the country and are negotiable
  for the important investors who generate
  employment. There are only two kinds of local
  taxes the tax on the land (if buying) and the
  tax on the buildings.
• Investors
• In Braila County there are about 300 companies
  with foreign capital, running mainly in the
  textile and ready-made clothes industry but also
  in shipyard, furniture, constructions, machines
  and equipment, consultancy.
• The foreign capital comes from Italy, Greece,
  Norway, France, Germany, United States
• Regarding Italian investors, there are two
  important ready-made clothes factories Mistral
  (Due and Confezzioni) and Blazer.

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Agriculture and forestry The agriculture, being
considered the main support of welfare and
economic growth, and also of exports increasing,
as well as the guarantor of the population's food
necessary, occupies through tradition an
important place in Braila County economy.
Braila's agriculture also represents the main way
of improvement the life standard from the rural
environment. Through its agricultural potential
(the existence of the biggest agricultural
surface in Romania, situated in Braila Great
Island, with a land surface of 60,000 ha,
entirely irrigated, and a number of 120 thousand
bovines, 400 thousand ovines, 300 thousand swines
and 2,5 million fowls, at least) Braila County
offers multiple investment opportunities
Breeding . The production valorization is
favourable, both on the internal and external
market Modern but unused buildings, in the field
of porcine and cow breeding, are another facility
offered to the potential investors. Horticulture
development, mainly the ecological one. The
establishment and the development of gross market
for the horticultural products represent another
investment opportunity. Restructuring and
development of fishing activities . On the
territory of the county there are many lakes and
ponds that could be rearranged as piscicultural
exploitations the seed beds Maxineni and Jirlau,
the fish ponds Movila Miresii, Plopu, Gradistea,
Vultureni, Zavoaia, Batogu, Chioibasesti, Coltea
and Tataru. Vegetables, fruits, milk and
cereals processing activities and the
establishment of a terminal for cereals. The
predominant agrarian character of the county
makes some activities to be extremely profitable.
Briquetting of the waste cereals (their
transforming into a fuel with high caloric power)
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The creation of small stocking and
processing capacities for fodders The breeding
of exotic or rare birds and animals (pheasants,
quails, ostriches). The experience of the last
years proved that exotic animals and birds can
represent a profitable business in Braila county.
Silkworm breeding . The activity is extremely
profitable, our county having an important
tradition in the field. However, this fact
supposes the re-establishment of mulberry
plantations necessary in the silkworm breeding on
the existing salt soils. Mushrooms cultures.
This product in fresh state is not sufficient on
the market the demand being partially covered,
at high prices. That's why the construction of a
mushroom farm is welcome. Establishment of hot
houses for vegetables and flowers. The
valorization of the thermal springs and of other
thermal sources may have favourable results in
this domain, as well as in possible tourist
investments.
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Brief on economy of Braila County I.
INDUSTRY 1. Indicators of industrial production
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2. Main Industrial Products
Note There are presented the main industrial
products of the county
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• 3. The Total Turnover Amount In Industry
  (Internal And External)

1) casual data
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• II. TRADE
• 4. Merchandise Import /Export
• thousand euro

1) Rectified data 2) Casual data
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• III. TOURISM
• 5. Accommodation types
• number

1) Casual data
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6.NIGHTS number
1) Casual data
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7. Occupation Rate
IV. EMPLOYMENT 8. Number of Employees
1) Casual data
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9. Average Wage
lei (RON)/person
10. Average Net Wage lei (RON)/person
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11. REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED- At The End Of The
Period
persons

Data source National Employment Agency
12. REGISTERED UNEMPLO YMENT RATE- at the end
of the period

Data source National Employment Agency
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• V. SOCIAL PROTECTION
• 13. Average number of the pensioners

1. Casual data

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• VI. INVESTMENTS - CONSTRUCTIONS
• 14. Indices of the construction amount

1) Rectified data 2) Casual data
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15. Indices Of Accomplished Investments

16. Construction Authorizations For Residential
Buildings
number
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17. Finished Dwellings
number
1) Casual data Note The Finished dwellings
indicator refers to the dwellings finished
during the semester
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18. Public Networks' Modernization
km
Data source Braila County Council
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19. Indicators Related To The Activity Of The
National Authority For The Consummers'
Protection, Between 1.I 31.V. 2006
Data source National Authority for the
Consummers Protection

• 20. Registered Companies With Foreign Capital,
  In May 2006

Data source The National Office of the Commerce
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Projects Portfolio
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PROJECTS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
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Brief Description Of The Main Projects
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• Infrastructure of the Area Between
• Braila and Galati

The population of Braila Municipality 221.370
inhabitants The population of Galati
Municipality 300.500 inhabitants
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• PROJECT JUSTIFICATION
• The achievement of the primary infrastructure
  system in order to support the establishment of
  economic activities (urban development).
• PROJECT DESCRIPTION
• - it is expected the achievement of a road
  interconnection highway with 4 traffic lanes
  between Braila and Galati
• - it is expected the achievement of a roadway
  for heavy transport and of an utilities network
  for the area of activities water/sewerage,
  electrical power, gases, communications,
  transport. The objective position will allow the
  placement and the easy access to the area of
  activities without disturbing the traffic between
  Braila and Galati and in the same time the
  connection to the utilities system.
• EXPECTED RESULTS
• - the elimination of the malfunctions regarding
  the sustainable development of the identified
  area by plans of territorial arrangement
  Braila-Galati-Tulcea.
• - the achievement of the objectives established
  by the strategies of regional economic
  development
• - the increasing of the economic interest and
  the strengthening of the polarizing role of the
  area.
• PROJECT IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
• The achievement of the infrastructure system will
  have an insignificant impact on the environment.
  The Objective will be achieved without clearing
  planted areas, deviation of water flows, changes
  of relief or landscape etc. in what concerns the
  objective placement, there will be followed the
  restrictions imposed by the specific regulations.
• ESTIMATIVE PRICES NECESSARY FOR THESE INVESTMENTS
  ACHIEVEMENT
• highway with 4 traffic lanes between Braila and
  Galati 100.000.000 Euro
• land total surface 4206 hectares 42.060.000
  sqm

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Bridge Across the Danube
THE PROPOSED LOCATION Vadeni
Commune (left bank, Braila County) Smirdan
Commune (right bank, Tulcea County)

• For the achievement of a permanent passage across
  the Danube River, several studies of placement
  and solutions were elaborated, respective
• a) The study from 1986 regarding the assuring of
  a railway and road connection between Braila and
  Braila Great Island in which 4 placements were
  analyzed
• A placement - situated in the Northern part of
  Braila Municipality, downstream the area of the
  actual point of crossing by ferry from Vadul
  Ghecetului to Smirdan
• B placement - situated in the central part of
  Braila Municipality, in the Stanca Factory area
  at the downstream end of AKER Shipyard
  
• C placement - situated in the Southern part of
  Braila Municipality, in the area of Chiscani -
  Tichilesti localities
• D placement - situated in the Southern limit of
  Braila Municipality, in front of the crossing
  point of the bypass road with National Road 21,
  at the limit of the Municipality
• b) Feasibility Study from 1996 - Bridge across
  the Danube in Braila, which was based on the
  study elaborated in 1986 and where 3 placements
  were analyzed
• - A placement from 1986
• - D placement - from 1986
• - E placement - downstream Braila Municipality
  where the route follows the present National Road
  2B Braila-Galati, separates from it after the
  Northern limit of Brailita district and crosses
  the Danube in the area of 165 kilometer 800 and
  enters in the National Road 22 Braila-Tulcea in
  the North of Jijila Locality.

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• Bridge characteristics Viaduct of left bank
  access l1 660 meters
• Main suspended bridge l2 1520 meters
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  Viaduct of right bank access l3 360 meters
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  Total length Ltl1l2l3 2540 meters
• Bridge width 23,40 meters
• c) Feasibility Study from 1997 - Bridge across
  the Danube in Braila, an updating of the study
  elaborated in 1996 in order to be included in the
  Arrangement Plan of the County Territory Braila
• d) The study from 2001 - the construction of a
  new bridge across the Danube in Braila area,
  elaborated by JETRO (Japan External Trade
  Organization), in cooperation with S.C.IPTANA -
  S.A. Bucharest, in order to obtain a loan from
  Japan.
• e) Feasibility Study from 2003 - the
  construction of the suspended bridge across the
  Danube in Braila area , elaborated by S.C. IPTANA
  - S.A. Bucharest, on E placement, built after
  the Romanian regulations, on the basis of the
  Japanese study.
  
  
  
  
  
• There was selected the E placement of the
  feasibility study elaborated in 2003 by S.C.
  IPTANA - S.A. Bucharest, for which were obtained
  the following accords and approvals
• - Urbanism Certificates of Braila and Tulcea
  County Councils
• - The Approvals of Braila, Macin, Vadeni,
  Smirdan and Jijila Townhall
• - The approval of National Ministry of Defense
  - General Staff
• - The approval of Ministry of Internal Affairs
  - the Department of Logistics
• - The Approval of Romanian Enquiry Department
• - The utilities owners Approval of S.C.
  Electrica S.A., Oil National Society -
• Petrom S.A., S.C.Petrotrans S.A., Romtelecom,
  National Company for Transport Transelectrica,
  R A Apa Braila
• - The approval of General Department of
  Maritime Transport on the Danube and Waterways
  within the Ministry of Transports, Constructions
  and Tourism

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• The placement area of the bridge across the
  Danube

• 2). At the same time, there are foreseen the new
  industrial parks  Chiscani Chemical Enterprise,
  the Sugar Factory from Ianca, Faurei Industrial
  Area.
• 3). Another project is represented by the
  commercial use of the Ianca helicoport, in order
  to keep the airport in a good state

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• Ianca Airport
• Ianca Airport is situated in the S-SV part of
  Braila County at a distance of 50 km from Braila
  County residence, on the DN 2B, km. 61. It is
  equidistant in comparison with the localities
  from the border counties, Galati, Buzau,
  Ialomita.
• By the modernization of Ianca Airport
  infrastructure with a length of 2.500 meters, a
  width of 80 meters and the concrete track, it is
  intended to facilitate the commercial traffic of
  passengers and cargo.
• The airport disposes of its own railway with
  grade for cargo which derives from line CF 700
  Galati - Faurei, Dedulesti station placed at 10
  km, at 2 km from the DN 2B, at 53 km from DN2.
• The social-economic development of Braila County
  and the border localities, the fact that in 2007
  our country will be a member of the European
  Union, determine us to take action regarding the
  airport infrastructure that may become the air
  gate of the East limit of EU assuring
  possibilities of economic and tourist exchanges.
  
• The financial support is necessary for the
  bringing of Ianca Airport according to the
  regulations of the International Organization of
  Civil Aviation by building the following
• modern airport building
• the rehabilitation of take off - landing track of
  the runways and the track lengthening with 1.000
  meters x 80 meters width
• the achievement of new platforms of the airship
  parking passengers traffic cargo traffic
  airships repairing auto, etc.
• the rehabilitation and the construction of
  buildings specific to airport such as watch
  tower passengers terminal cargo terminal
  electric plant hangars for the ships
  maintenance and the repairing remises for
  ambulances, airport maintenance, airships
  defrosting and others fuel deposit
• constructions and endowments for related services
  for attending passengers and cargo traffic
• the endowment with constructions and equipment
  for the processing and recycling the airport
  waste
• the arrangement of surroundings and greenswards.

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• Modernization and development
• of Blasova Holiday Resort
• By the Decision of Government nr. 2118/
  9.12.2004, it was approved the transfer of the
  surface of 309.87 ha from the public domain of
  state and from the administration of State Domain
  Agency, and also the transfer of the surface of
  375.00 ha that constitutes Blasova lake which
  belongs to the patrimony of Romanian Waters
  National Administration, in the public domain of
  Braila County and Braila County Council. Situated
  in Insula Mare of Braila, Blasova Area admits the
  producing and development of additional
  activities tourism, non polluting service,
  sports and pleasure and also the integration in
  the system of protection and following the flow
  of the Danube, from springs till the pouring out
  into the Black Sea. Braila County Council
  promotes this area in the national circuit as
  having a special tourist potential and great
  interest for the investors, aiming the
  sustainable development of the adjacent
  settlements and territories. Analyzing the
  conditions that the lake disposes of, we consider
  that it may be included in the economic and
  tourist circuit of Braila County, having the
  following purposes fish breeding in natural
  environment ? sports fishing ? nautical
  pleasure ? hunting.
• The land will be divided in lots of 1000 square
  meters, which will not be granted, and from the
  due obtained from the grants payment, Braila
  County Council will retrieve the expenses made
  with the mentioned endowments
• PROJECT JUSTIFICATION The unicity of the
  proposed area consists in the natural beauty
  generated by the existence of a meandre lake with
  the specific flora and fauna. Although, Blasova
  lake and surroundings (Blasova hill) have natural
  potential for the developing of the fishing,
  hunting and nautical sports activities
  (especially canoeing). The project will answer to
  the following identified needs - high
  degradation of the access road - old and low
  capacity urban infrastructure - lack of the
  arrangements and modern endowments for fishing
  and nautical sports . The projects idea is based
  on the fact that the surrounding area of the
  Zaton lake (684,87 hectares) has been passed in
  the public propriety of the Braila County
  Council by HG 2118/9.12.2004, so now is possible
  to rehabilitate the infrastructure.
• THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
• Purpose Increasing the number of local and
  foreign tourists, through the development and
  equilibration of the tourism infrastructure in
  Blasova resort area.
• Objectives
• the development of the Braila touristic
  potential, based on the existent natural
  resources, through the environment conservation 
• the development of the integrated complementary
  activities generated by the lake area (tourism,
  unpolluting services, sports and recreation ) 
• employment, improvement and diversification of
  the labor on specific domains
• achieving of the generating profit centers in
  order to contribute for the ulterior
  development 
• integration in the protection and monitoring
  system for the Danube course from the mint
  through the flowing into the Black Sea.
• achievement of the access infrastructure and the
  of the utilities network (access roads 9 km, )
  on the route DC 59, access roads in the interior
  of the resort, alleys, water supply system,
  sewage, electrical power, communications
• putting of the fishing pontoons
• landing fittings

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• The development of the natural potential
• of Zaton Lake (Braila Big Island)
• By the Decision of Government nr. 2158/
  9.12.2004, it was approved the transfer of Zaton
  lake with a surface of 450 ha from the public
  domain of state and patrimony of Romanian
  Waters National Administration, in the public
  domain of Braila County. The productive use of
  Zaton lake resources, situated in Braila Big
  Island , on the territory of Frecatei village,
  will have as results the increase of the area
  potential by the preservation and keeping the
  natural patrimony the development of additional
  activities such as fish breeding in natural
  environment, sportsmen training and progress at
  national level, sailing competitions, sports
  fishing, hunting the engagement, progress and
  diversification of labor force on specific domain
  (the setting up of new jobs and the consolidation
  of the existent labor force in the area). The
  necessary investments for the introduction in the
  economic and tourist circuit of Zaton lake imply
  
• the population of the lake with saplings of fish
  from the species of crap, female cornel, and
  crucial
• the construction of a fish storage and a
  structure for tourists with accommodations and
  meals
• the achievement of some boats made of spun glass
  for fishing, nautical pleasure and hunting.
• PROJECT JUSTIFICATION The unicity of the
  proposed area consists in the natural beauty
  generated by the existance of a meandre lake with
  the specific flora and fauna. The project will
  answer to the following identified needs -
  inexistance of a proper access way - inexistance
  of the urban water supply networks, electrical
  power and - inexistance of the specific
  establishments for a resort - lack of the area
  promotion.
• Now, Zaton lake is used for fishing, only by the
  local habitants.
• THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
• Purpose The developing of the recreation and
  sports activities, the equilibration of the
  tourism infrastructure in Zaton lake area.
• Objectives
• - the development of the Braila touristic
  potential, based on the existent natural
  resources, through the environment conservation 
  
• - the development of the integrated complementary
  activities generated by the lake area (tourism,
  unpolluting services, sports and recreation )
• - employment, improvement and diversification of
  the labor on specific domains
• - integration in the protection and monitoring
  system for the Danube course from the mint
  through the flowing into the Black Sea.
• Expected results
• - achievement of the access infrastructure and
  the of the utilities network (access roads 11
  km, ) on the route DC 62, access roads in the
  interior of the resort, alleys, water supply
  system, sewage, electrical power, communications.

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Modernization of CAINENI BAI Salt
Lake DOMAIN 1. The improvement of the regional
and local public infrastructure 2. Helping the
diversification of the local and regional 3.
Developing of the local and regional tourism 4.
Endorsing the urban regeneration PROJECT
JUSTIFICATION Balneary component of the resort
addresses directly the health domain and
different kinds of recreation could stimulate and
attract different economic agents with tourism
connected activities commerce, transports,
telecommunications. The investments achieved
through the project will lead to the development
of the tourism activity in Braila county and
South-East Region, increasing the Romanian
tourists interest for this touristic area. THE
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT The projects purpose
is higher valorification of the touristic and
therapeutically potential represented by the salt
water and mud of the lake, those therapeutically
qualities being similar with the ones of the Lacu
Sarat Braila. The project proposes - touristic
area delimitation - arrangement of a cold
swimming pool made of one beach are and two
solars - arrangement of appreciatively 20
small houses with 2-4 beds each  - achievement
of a P1 construction for the balneary complex
with  treatment base, housing spaces, public
alimentation EXPECTED RESULTS The project
implementation will lead to the developing of the
tourism infrastructure in accordance with
European standards and to the resort integration
into the national recreation and balneary
circuit.. ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT IMPACT The
project is oriented on developing the touristic
component of the area, through the conservation
of the natural resources. Although, will involve
the developing of the environment survey system.
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Modernization of MOVILA MIRESII Salt
Lake Arranging the lake in the tourist purpose
represents the main subject of a project begun
from 1997, but the works were started and
unfinished. The idea should be reconsidered and
put into practise because of the following
reasons the characteristics of the mud and
water of the lake (proved by the repeated
chemical analyses) related to the big amount of
chlorides and sulphurs, recommended for the
treatment of the following diseases locomotor
affections ( degenerative swollen rheumatism,
post-traumatic affections), neurological
affections (affections of the peripheral nervous
system such as sciatica, neuritis, paresis),
dermatological , gynaecological, ophthalmologycal
affections, diseases of the respiratory and
endocrine apparatus , occupational diseases
local advantages employment, local
development, creating pleasure and treatment
place for the inhabitants of Braila county ,
protecting the environment that has already been
affected because the garbage put on one bank of
the lake national advantages a tourist halting
place, but also a treatment place for the persons
who are on the National Way Braila Ramnicu
Sarat the special therapeutic benefits of the
salt water and mud that surpass the ones from
Lacu Sarat and Techirghiol Lake, from the point
of view of the salt concentration. PROJECT
JUSTIFICATION Balneary component of the resort
addresses directly the health domain and
different kinds of recreation could stimulate and
attract different economic agents with tourism
connected activities commerce, transports,
telecommunications. The investments achieved
through the project will lead to the development
of the tourism activity in Braila county and
South-East Region, increasing the Romanian
tourists interest for this touristic area. THE
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT The projects purpose
is higher valorification of the touristic and
therapeutic potential represented by the salt
water of the lake, lake with the highest
mineralization degree from the country. The
project proposes - touristic area
delimitation - arrangement of a cold swimming
pool made of one beach are and two solars -
arrangement of approximatively 20 small houses
with 2-4 beds each  - achievement of a P1
construction for the balneary complex with 
treatment base, housing spaces, public
alimentation EXPECTED RESULTS The project
implementation will lead to the developing of the
tourism infrastructure in accordance with
European standards and to the resort integration
into the national recreation and balneary
circuit. ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT IMPACT The
project is oriented on developing the touristic
component of Brailas economy and also on the
regional component .Although, will involve the
developing of the environment survey system.
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• The development of the tourist danubian potential
  in the area
• Braila Galati - Tulcea
• The project intends to work out a problem,
  grasped by most people that visited Braila, which
  is the lack of some endowments specific for the
  passing and pleasure tourism that should
  emphasize the tourist potential of Braila-
  Galati- Tulcea area.
• The purpose of this project is the
  establishment, through a collective action for
  the three involved counties Braila, Galati and
  Tulcea, of a chain of motels placed near the
  Danube River, with direct access from the Danube
  and the possibility of passing in Ukraine. The
  motels are to be placed so that they can be
  reached to, using one of the main roads from the
  three counties.
• The proposed objectives occupy a surface of 1,2
  ha (the built spaces occupy 1200 square meters
  and the arranged spaces 10.800 square meters) and
  have an average capacity of 40-45 accommodations,
  with rooms of 2-3 beds, public food services and
  arrangements for nautical and pleasure sports.
  Direct access to Danube is foreseen- including to
  the Danube Delta- and to the zones of major
  interest.
• The investment functions in four buildings and
  made-up spaces which contain pleasure areas, a
  swimming pool, parking places, alleys, forecourt
  etc.

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• Modernization of the tourist infrastructure of
• Lacu Sarat Holiday Resort, Braila
• This fact will be possible using local funds, as
  well as European financial support. A previous
  project for the modernization of the Lacu Sarat
  resort was designed through the PHARE 2001
  Program, a budget of 8 million Euro being
  allocated. This Program implies the construction
  of a salt water pool, a hall for mud packing, the
  modernization of the beach and the solarium, the
  modernization of the children and youth camp, but
  also the supplement of the accommodation
  capacity, by building a hotel of 3 stars class
  with 80 seats.
• By the project implementation, we intend to
  develop at a high level the tourist and
  therapeutic potential represented by the brackish
  water and the sapropel mud, factors that
  correlated with the beach and the forest near the
  lake and also with the existent monastery, will
  lead to the significant increase of the tourists
  number from the country and abroad.
• Accomplishing this project, as well as through an
  intense promotion activity, Lacu Sarat holiday
  resort can become an important national and
  international resort, especially for the
  therapeutic qualities of the mud and salt water,
  much superior to the ones of Amara and
  Techirghiol lakes.
• Considering the promotion, this should be
  represented, besides the well-known methods
  (brochures, folders), also by the modern ones
  such as a presentation web on the Internet, the
  presentation of the resorts programmes in the
  tourist agencies offer, able to make them known
  at the tourist exhibitions and fairs, the
  spreading of promotional materials presenting the
  resorts offer of tourist services and baleary
  treatment in the Health County Institutions, the
  promotion of the resort made by the Chamber of
  Commerce, Industry and Agriculture Braila during
  the business visits organised both in the country
  and abroad.
• The project also aims at the certification of
  Lacu Sarat Resort as a tourist resort of a
  national importance with the immediate effects
  that result from this fact.
• Specific Objectives
• -the achievement and the improvement of the
  sewage water system, public lighting, telephone
  network, parking places works that may be made
  by eliminating the humidity in excess from the
  resort soil
• -the modernization of the beach and solar for
  nudism
• -the building of a multifunctional complex of
  hotels classified at three stars with a capacity
  of 80 accommodations
• the building of a Business Center with a capacity
  of 70 seats, classified at three stars
• the building of a House for Retiring Persons with
  a capacity of 100 accommodations
• the improvement of balneal treatment quality by
  the construction of new basis of treatment
• the modernization of the holiday camp for
  children and young people by the achievement of
  modern complex household, hygienic and healthful
  and also the improvement of the housing
  conditions
• the interior adornment of the church of Saint
  Pantelimon Monastery.

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• Other projects
• Besides the projects mentioned above, Braila
  county give opportunities for the following
  activities 
• The development of the industry of paper and
  plastic packing this kind of industry is in
  accordance with the new tendencies, that of
  recipients with unique use, and the raw material
  for the paper products is made at Celhart Donaris
  S.A. Braila, unused areas existing on the same
  platform.
• Leisure and service boats construction
• Braila Shipyard owns the necessary production
  capacities and also the specialized labour force
  that permit the development of such an activity
• The production of agricultural equipment for
  small and medium areas
• The technological flow of S.C. PROMEX S.A could
  be adapted in order to produce such equipment,
  here existing an important centre of designers
  and the necessary specialized labor force.
• Garment and fabrics production
• Bricks and store tiles production the loess's
  existence in the area, the main raw material for
  these products means low production costs
• Leather industry - presently, in the area, the
  leathers resulted from slaughtering are not
  processed, while the breeding activity is
  continuously developing and the leather
  processing is not integrated into the flow
• The re-establishment of the osier cultures and
  the revival of wickerwork and production of small
  osier and club rush furniture.