| (2) | Article 3 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 3
Romania may finance the following measures:
| (a) | the technical unemployment benefit to employees of employers that reduce or temporarily interrupt their activity, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 30/2020’, Article XI, as extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 111/2021’, in turn extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 2/2022’; |
| (b) | the benefit applied for persons whose employment contract was suspended, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 92/2020’, Article I; |
| (c) | the short-time work scheme, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’, Article 1, as amended and extended by ‘Law 58/2021’; |
| (d) | the benefit similar to that referred to in point (a) for categories other than employees, including the self-employed and the liberal professions, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 30/2020’, Article XV, as extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 111/2021’, in turn extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 2/2022’; |
| (e) | the benefit provided for other categories than employees, including the self-employed and the liberal professions, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’, Article 3, as amended and extended by ‘Law 58/2021’; |
| (f) | the support allowance to daily labourers as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’, Article 4 (approved by means of ‘Law 282/2020’), and its subsequent amendments ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 182/2020’, ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 211/2020’ (approved by means of ‘Law 58/2021’), ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 220/2020’, ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 226/2020’, ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 44/2021’, ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 111/2021’, and ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 2/2022’; |
| (g) | the bonus in respect of additional work for the personnel of the specialty structures of the National Public Health Institute and the county public-health directorates and the public-health directorate of Bucharest, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 11/2020’, Article 8(6), as extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 131/2020’, Article 2 and ‘Law 136/2020’, Article 6; |
| (h) | the childcare bonus granted to private-sector employees and to employees of the national system of defence, penitentiaries, public-health units and other categories established through ministerial orders, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 30/2020’, Article I(6); as extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 147/2020’, Article 4(3) and ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 110/2021’, Article 7; |
| (i) | the bonus in respect of particularly dangerous conditions granted in recognition of the merits of medical personnel, as provided for in ‘Law 56/2020’, Article 7, as extended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 116/2021’; |
| (j) | the sick-leave benefit granted to quarantined persons and persons diagnosed with COVID-19 infection, as provided for in ‘Law 136/2020’, and amended by ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 70/2020’, Article 13; |
| (k) | the one-time financial support granted to employers in order for employees to carry out teleworking activities, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’, Article 6; |
| (l) | the bonus of 30 % and 40 % of the basic salary granted to the personnel of the county public-health directorates and of the public-health directorate of Bucharest, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 131/2020’, Article 1(1); |
| (m) | the granting of a secondment allowance amounting to 50 % and a per diem bonus of 2 % of the basic salary for medical specialists, paramedical and auxiliary personnel in the public system, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 136/2020’, Article 19(3); |
| (n) | the temporary financing of salary costs related to the opening of 2 000 positions to reinforce the health directorates and the public ambulance services (1 000 in each) in order to counteract the spread of COVID-19, as provided for in ‘Government Decision 254/2020, Sole Article’, ‘Government Decision 840/2020’, Sole Article, ‘Government Decision 383/2021’, Sole Article, ‘Government Decision 1072/2021’ and ‘Government Decision 496/2022’; |
| (o) | the granting of a bonus of 75 % to 85 % of the basic salary for the specialty medical personnel and auxiliary medical personnel from public-health units or the structures thereof and for the specialty personnel from the paraclinical medical structures directly involved in the transport, equipment, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 patients, as provided for in ‘Government Decision 1035/2020’, Sole Article, point 3; |
| (p) | the payment of medical-sanitary personnel and medical registrars who carry out their activity within COVID-19 vaccination centres organised in locations other than those within health units, as provided for in ‘Government Decision 1031/2020’ and ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 3/2021’; |
| (q) | the payment of medical-sanitary personnel and medical registrars who carry out their activity within COVID-19 vaccination centres organised in health units, as well as the payment of family doctors for the activities provided for those purposes, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 3/2021’ and ‘Government Decision 1031/2020’; |
| (r) | the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine doses, as provided for in ‘Government Decision 1031/2020’; |
| (s) | the expenses for the quarantine of people with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19, people on the list established by the COVID-19 Surveillance Methodology and medical staff diagnosed with COVID-19 who do not require hospitalisation or staff who interacted with patients and choose to stay away from home, as provided for in ‘Government Decision 201/2020’, ‘Government Decision 1103/2020’ and ‘Ministerial Order 725/2020’; |
| (t) | the purchase of medication (Remdesivir), as provided for in ‘Government Decision 1092/2020’, ‘Government Decision 380/2021’, ‘Government Decision 1017/2021’ and ‘Government Decision 1190/2021’; |
| (u) | the purchase of medication (Tocilizumabum), as provided for in ‘Minister of Health Order 487/2020’; |
| (v) | the purchase of monoclonal antibody medicine for COVID-19 treatment that contains Casirivimab and Imdevimab, as provided for in ‘Government Decision 1092/2020’, ‘Government Decision 380/2021’, ‘Government Decision 1017/2021’ and ‘Government Decision 1190/2021’; |
| (w) | meal vouchers for persons who are fully vaccinated in the amount of RON 100, as provided for in ‘Government Ordinance 19/2021’, amending ‘Law 55/2020’; |
| (x) | the 30 % basic salary increase for the staff of the prefect’s institutions involved in preventing and fighting the effects of COVID-19, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 131/2020’, Article 5; |
| (y) | the expenditures to cover 200 additional resident doctors needed because of the pandemic, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 186/2020’; |
| (z) | the purchase of medical products and personal protective equipment for the fight against the pandemic (e.g., protective footwear, gloves, masks, ventilators, stretchers), as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 11/2020’; |
| (aa) | the purchase of sanitary protection materials for personnel, as provided for in ‘Law 319/2006’, ‘Law 55/2020’, and ‘Minister of Labor and Minister of Health Joint Order 3577/831/2020’; |
| (bb) | payments to volunteer medicine students who worked for hospitals or healthcare institutions to provide emergency support, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 197/2020’; |
| (cc) | the purchase of medication for the treatment of COVID-19 infections (ANAKINRA), as provided for in ‘Minister of Health Order 487/2020’; |
| (dd) | the purchase of medication for the treatment of COVID-19 infections (MOLNUPIRAVIR), as provided for in ‘Minister of Health Order 487/2020’; |
| (ee) | the financing of COVID-19 testing at the level of specialised units, as provided for in ‘Law 95/2006, Article 51’, ‘Government Decision 155/2017’ and ‘Minister of Health Order 377/2017’; |
| (ff) | the financing of COVID-19 testing by family doctors, as provided for in ‘Minister of Health Order 58/4/2022’.’; |
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