27.01.2012
The Minister of Environment and Forests, Laszlo Borbely, announced that a new session of the „Rabla” programme will start most probably in February, under the same conditions as in 2011.
„The Rabla programme for the buyback of old cars will continue this year as well; we have already started procedures. We keep in touch with the same REMAT recycling centres which will receive the old cars for scrap. I hope to resume the programme in February, under the same provisions. Any car older than 10 years can be turned in for a voucher worth 3,800 Lei”, the minister says.
According to the ministry’s accounts, Rabla was one of the strongest programmes of the ministry, alongside Green Home and financial allotments for forestations and flood defence. Last year, 456 million Lei were allocated, in two stages, for withdrawing 120,000 old vehicles. On December 19th, 2011, 116,641 vehicles were scrapped, and the tickets used to buy 39,216 new vehicles, out of which 15,005 of Romanian production.