Romanian Wine Growing Sector in the Context of European Integration, Competitive and Sustainable Development

Abstract

By the adopted market mechanisms, by the various forms of national support, Romanian wine sector wants to continue to be compatible as organizing and efficiency with existing wine structures within the Member countries of the European Union, and Romanian wine production to cope with European and world competitiveness based on competition principles and quality. The Romanian wine growing surface is divided into 8 wine growing areas, bounded by the national legislation up to the level of territorial administrative locality and only here is permitted to continue setting up of vineyards, with those varieties named for each wine region. Romania’s wine growing area provides wines of fine quality and taking advantage of the potential of its many particularly valuable indigenous varieties, most of them at a level of quality and competitiveness suitable to varieties worldwide acknowledged, Romania wants to take its wine sector to an upper level. The development strategy of the indigenous varieties sector constitutes a main goal, a safe way to promote Romanian wine on third markets. Also, as a EU member country, Romanian wine growing sector benefits from the specific CMO of wine market measures, a priority for the current situation of the Romanian wine growing sector being vineyards restructuring/conversion.