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European Alcohol Policy: Romania
Background -
| Respondent's name: |
Cristina Petcu |
| Respondent's country: |
Romania |
| Respondent's e-mail address: |
cpetcu2002@yahoo.co.uk, www.ms.ro |
| Respondent's telephone number: |
0040 21 3072 577 |
| Respondent's fax number: |
0040 21 3072 577 |
| Respondent's present work: |
No data entered |
| Organisation, position, address (name and number of street, postal code, town): |
Ministry of European Integration / Counsellor for Ministry of Health
Cristian Popisteanu Str, no 1-3, sect 1, Bucharest, Romania |
| Organisation website: |
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| Are you a government employee? |
Yes |
| Professional qualifications: |
No data entered |
| Number of years in employment in your professional area: |
No data entered |
| Self-rating of expertise level in the area of alcohol control policy in your country (1 is slightly conversant, 10 is fully conversant): 3 |
| Self-rating of expertise level in the area of the prevention of the harm done by alcohol in your country (1 is slightly conversant, 10 is fully conversant): 2 |
| If you are answering for a jurisdictional region rather than as a country as a whole, which jurisdictional region is it? |
No data entered |
If this questionnaire was completed with the collaboration
of other people, provide organisational reference(s) for each participant.
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Provide organisational reference(s) for nation-wide and/or
regional coalitions (task forces, action groups, collaborative bodies) in
the arena of alcohol control policy.
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| Other background information: |
Population size of the region: 21 670 000 |
Politics, policies and priorities -
| Do relevant politicians/policy makers refer to alcohol control policy in a manner that suggests it is a priority area? |
Yes, not documented |
| Do relevant politicians/policy makers refer to the prevention of the harm done by alcohol in a
manner that suggests it is a priority area? |
Yes, not documented |
| In your opinion, taking into account everything you know,
what level of real priority does the present government place on alcohol control policy? (1 is low priority, mostly rhetoric; 10 is high priority, much action) |
5 |
| In your opinion, taking into account everything you know,
what level of real priority does the present government place on the prevention of the harm done by alcohol? (1 is low priority, mostly rhetoric; 10 is high priority, much action) |
4 |
| What is the recent trend (past several years) in resource allocation to
alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol? |
No or little change in resources |
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What was the amount of funds allocated to alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol in the most recent national budget (Euro):
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No data entered |
| Budget year: |
No data entered |
| Regional level, governmental policy documents on alcohol policy and on preventing the harm done by alcohol have been published in the following areas: |
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| Non-governmental (private enterprise, research institute, NGO, etc.) policy
documents on alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol have been published in the following areas: |
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Evaluation -
| Are national alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol policies evaluated and reported? |
No |
Programmes -
| How available are programmes for preventing the harm done by alcohol? Provide document
reference(s) for some of the key programmes that exemplify high quality. (1 is not available; 5 is widely available) |
Public education through mass media
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Comprehensive community based
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Home/family
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1 |
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School
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3 |
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College
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3 |
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University
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3 |
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Work place
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4 |
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Primary health care
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1 |
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Hospital/clinic
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1 |
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Internet
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1 |
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Social welfare and youth services
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4 |
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Custodial settings (prisons, probation, etc.)
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1 |
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Professional workforce -
Is higher education in alcohol control policy and/or the prevention of the harm done by alcohol available from at least one institution of higher
education?
No
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Funding -
| Are funds dedicated to alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol clearly identifiable in the most recent national budget? |
Funds are available for alcohol, but mixed in with other funding and hard or impossible to link explicitly with alcohol. |
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The arena/activities are indicated for which earmarked funds are provided:
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| Are funds dedicated to alcohol control policy and/or programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol clearly identifiable
in the budgets of non-governmental institutions (foundations, private institutes, welfare societies, professional groups, etc, associations)? |
No |
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The arena/activities are indicated for which earmarked funds are provided:
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Personal evaluation of the state of the field -
| List up to five key recent advances in your country
related to alcohol control policy: |
- National Strategy to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Traffic of Drugs and Pre-cursors (2003)- one of the objective of the present Strategy approaches the drug use problem from a global point of view, by analysing an all the substances that can be use as drugs and lead toaddction, including alcohol and tobacco.
- increasing the taxes for alcohol products in accodance with the engagements from the Position Document regarding the Negociation Chapter 10 - Taxes (Emergency Ordonance 24/24 March 2005 for the modification and completion of the Law 571/2003 regarding the Fiscal Code)
- decreasing the level of alcohol in the blood for drivers (Criminal Law/2004)
- ban the alcohol home production using artisanal devices/2000
- sanctioning the fact of infringement of the norms for social cohabitation, of the public safety and order such as: the consumer refuse toquit a public place in which alcohol drinks are consumed, after the closing hour or at the right request of a employee of that public palce; providing the consumers alcoholic drinks in public places and outside, in thedays and hours when, according to the law, the public places are closed orthe provision of alcoholic drinks are forbidden; provision of the alcoholic drinks to the consumer with drunk status or under legalage, in the public places;alcohol drinking in the streets, parks, show halls, sport arenas or other public places. |
| List up to five key recent
advances in your country related to the prevention of the harm done by alcohol: |
- - National and local information,education and communication campaigns on the prevention of alcohol products consumption
- - Centres for preventing and counselling on drugs, including alcohol, in each county; the centres provide information for preventing the use of drugs, including alcohol and also refer the persons that are using drugs and alcohol to the specfic aid.
- - Establishing certain measures for ensuring the conditions for a moral and physical development of the scholars and students, forbidding the trade or the EXPOSURE in oder to sell of the alcohol products inside or at a distance lower than 200m from the educational and medical units -1994.
- - Law no.148/2000 regarding the advertising: It is forbidden the advertising for the alcoholic beverages and for the tobacco products in the precincts of the educational units and of the medical care units or at a distance smaller than 200 meters from their entry, measured on the public way; the advertising of the alcoholic drinks and for the tobacco and products is not allowed in publications destined mainly to the minors, in the show houses before, during and after the shows destined to the minors; the advertising for the alcoholic beverages and for the tobacco products is not allowed even in the following conditions:is addressed to the minors; presents the minors consuming the products, suggests that the alcoholic beverages or the tobacco products are dued with therapeutical properties or have stimulative effect
- - Forbidding any kind of advertising of alcohol products within the hour interval 6,00-22,00. The decision is based on the statistics published by the public and private sector institutions that shows an increasing alcohol consumption among minors and an increased number of alcoholic distilled beverages advertisements - 2004 |
| List up to five key barriers/obstacles/issues
that stand in the way of achieving, in
your country, action on alcohol control policy: |
- - In Romania it isn’t establish yet a national consensus about the importance of reducing and controlling alcohol consumption
- -The State has not a monopoly on the alcohol trade and this fact contributes to the apparition of the “black market” and to selling some unregistered products
- - Inexistence of a National alcohol policies : the limiting and control of the alcohol consumption is not the responsibility of a single institution and involve many state authorities. Thus, Ministry of Health and Family shows his willingness to co-operate both with the national institutions and international bodies in order to limit and control the alcohol consumption
- - separate budget not available for alcohol policies and harm prevention
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| List up to five key barriers/obstacles/issues
that stand in the way of achieving, in
your country, action on the prevention of the harm done by alcohol: |
- - lack of a dedicated budget for alcohol prevention within the Ministry of Health budget
- - lack of personnel in health promotion department at national and county levels, who deals with alcohol prevention beside other duties
- - lack of data available at national level
- - low intensity public information and persuation campaigns
- - advertising and promotion for drinking behaviour |
| List, in descending order of importance, up to
five key advances that are needed to support implementation of evidence-based alcohol control policy in your country: |
- - increasing the awareness of the general public and the political decision-makers on alcohol control policies
- - a national plan of action for implementing the national strategy
- - increasing resources (budget, personnel)
- - encouraging NGOs, religious institutions and sport and cultural organizations to get actively involved in controlling alcohol use
- - involving local community |
| List, in descending order of importance, up to five key changes that are needed in
your country, to achieve the advances above: |
- - comprehensive local strategy : provision of housing, promotion of leisure activities, conservation of public parks and recreation centres
- - setting up a national partnership governmental-nongovernmental and a working group which will have as a main task to develop the national strategy and national plan of action
- -increasing the level of knowledge and skills of the personnel involved in the implementation of alcohol control policies involving another partners governamental and members of civil society
- -setting up alcohol free environments
- -public awareness campaigns related to the alcohol control policies |
| List, in descending order of importance, up to five key advances that are needed to
support implementation of evidence-based the prevention of the harm done by alcohol in your
country: |
- - a national strategy which includes prevention of harm done by alcohol or at least a dedicated chapter within the national prevention programmes; standardising agreed data collection instruments of measurements and implementing their routine use in research practice
- - dedicated budget for prevention of the harm done by alcohol within the Ministry of Health Budget
- - increase the knowledge related to prevention of the harm done by alcohol
- - involve other partners such as occupational health professionals, mental health professioanls etc.
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| List, in descending order of importance, up to five key changes that are needed in
your country, to achieve the advances above: |
- - personnel training
- - a dedicated national survey which is repeated at 5 years
- - public awareness campaigns
- - to incorporate in the primary health care system of measures for early detection and treatment of alcohol-related problems
- - implementing prevention policies in education institutions (universities, colleges) |
Comments
Inclusive dates of data entry
| From: 31-1-2005 To: 28-2-2005 |
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