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Public Report in support of community projects in Constanta sustained by PACT through Community Fund Pontus Euxin In early June 2011, PACT launched Community Fund Pontus Euxin, totaling 32.600 RON, under its management. The Fund was established by selling tickets at the conference-event, held up by actor Dan Puric in Constanta, on November 20th 2010. The event was organized by a group of citizens in Constanta (constituted as an Initiative Group for Community Fund Pontus Euxin), with support from PACT Foundation, in order to attract funds to sustain local community projects. The main purpose of the fund is to stimulate initiative groups and NGOs in Constanta to develop projects that contribute to producing positive changes in different urban communities in the city of Constanta.

PACT Foundation held Wednesday, December 7th, from 19.30 at Café Godot Theatre, a medieval theme party, which is the second fundraising event from private sources for the Community Fund for action and transformation of villages in southern Romania. The total amount collected at this event, of 8754 lei, from selling tickets, "all pay" auction (everyone pays) for special objects donated and classic auction for works of art offered by artists, will be used to support projects initiated by groups of citizens in rural communities in southern Romania.

First meeting between ANAF and NGO sector representatives

22/06/2010

On June 17th, representatives of the National Agency of Fiscal Administration (ANAF) and of the NGO sector came together to discuss an improvement plan for the 2% mechanism – the mechanism that enables persons to redirect 2% of their income tax to a non-profit entity.

ANAF was represented by Vicepresident Gogancea, Director Busuioc, Director Hofner and the Vicepresident’s Chief of Cabinet. The NGO delegation was formed by representatives of the Romanian’s Donors Forum, Soros Foundation, Smurd Foundation, Save the Children and the Association for Community Relations.

During the meeting, both ANAf and NGOs highlighted problems related to the 2% mechanism. ANAF raised the issue about the protection of personal data of contributors; it was suggested that this problem might be solved if NGOs registered as operators of personal data.

Regarding the transfer of 2% contributions, NGO representatives demanded that ANAF should provide a deadline by which contributions would be transferred to their accounts. Unfortunately, this problem cannot be solved for the time being – ANAF representatives explained that money transfer depends on the processing stage and is linked to the recovery of debts from contributors.

As for the annulment procedure of 230 forms, ANAF explained that, in the case that problems appear in data processing, contributors are notified in order to deliver the missing data. But the fact that contributors rarely answer to this notification leads to the annulment of forms with insufficient data.

ANAF took the NGOs suggestion to produce statistics to illustrate the amounts of 2% contributions in relation with NGOs fields of activity. ANAF also promised to solve all cases of annulment presented during the meeting, which had as a direct cause the internal communication paper that declared null the 230 forms with preprinted information.

ANAF and NGO sector representatives commonly agreed to elaborate a guide for the implementation of the 2% mechanism; the guide is meant to improve the implementation process for the year 2011. The group shall meet again in a month’s time, in order to draft this guide.

In preparation of the next meeting, each NGO that took part in the delegation shall collect information on issues related to the deposition and transfer of 2% amounts, so that these problems might be addressed in the 2% mechanism guide.

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