The IMF board will reconvene in the fall to analyze the results of the assessment mission.
According to current data, the IMF mission would leave Bucharest without a cover letter handed by the Romanian authorities and the Board to be hold in the fall, most likely in November, will analyze the results of the current review and the results of the assessment mission scheduled for July-August.
An IMF mission came to Bucharest in early June for the third review of the stand-by agreement, the most important topic on the authorities agenda targeted the possibility of reducing the health assurance contribution by 5 percentage points from the second half of the year.
The IMF representatives met today with Prime Minister Victor Ponta. The main topic of discussion was the reduction of the health assurance contribution rate.
Victor Ponta stated Wednesday that he hoped for an easing of labor taxation to be made "within a reasonable time" and to be supported by the opposition as well.