IDENTIFYING THE MAIN INFORMATION SOURCES WITH REGARD TO EUROPEAN FUNDING

The development of the Romanian rural has undergone important variations in terms of economic and financial instruments. The failure of the support policy in the fields of agriculture and rural development during the first stages of transition was determined by the slow pace of the economic reform and shaping of market-viable agricultural structures. The research undertaken allowed for the depiction of tendencies and theoretically and practically-fundamented conclusions for the efficient access and employment of European funding for rural development. The method for data collection and processing selected for both studies was the inquiry, while the research instrument employed was the survey. The preamble of the study involved the analysis of the general regulatory framework of European funding for rural development in Romania. Research objectives aimed at the main co-financing sources of private beneficiaries in Cluj county and beneficiaries’ assessment of project filing methods