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Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration

Romanian ministry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ1583463 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry for Development, Public Works and Administration of Romania (Romanian: Ministerul Dezvoltării, Lucrărilor Publice și Administrației) is an institution of the Romanian central public administration, subordinated to the Government of Romania. The Ministry was created on December 22, 2012, by the restructuring of the former Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism (2009–2010) and by taking over the public administration structures and the institutions specialized in this area from the Ministry of Interior Affairs, under the Emergency Ordinance no.96 of 22 December 2012.

Ministers

Since 23 December 2020, the Minister for Development, Public Works and Administration has been Attila Cseke.

Overview

The Ministry for Development, Public Works and Administration carries out government policies in the fields of regional development, territorial development and cohesion, cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation, spatial planning, urban planning and architecture, housing, real estate and urban planning management and development, public works and construction.

In these areas, the Ministry manages several programmes financed from European and national funds: The Regional Operational Programme 2007-2013 and 2014–2020, 12 European territorial cooperation programmes for 2014–2020, European territorial cooperation programmes for 2007–2013, PHARE - Economic and Social Cohesion, programmes for territorial development, housing construction, thermal rehabilitation of housing blocks, retrofitting of earthquake prone buildings, construction of sports halls and cultural homes.

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“Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration” enters the record as romanian ministry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ministry, Regional and Development can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2009, 2010, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ministry, Regional and Development.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1583463. VIAF identifies the subject as 313280574. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2009, 2010 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.