The Government approved on Thursday the National Strategy of State Reserves (SNRS) for the period 2026-2030, a document through which Romania strengthens its capacity to respond efficiently to exceptional situations and ensures a high level of resilience and national security, aligned with good European and international practices.
According to a Government press release, the general objective of the SNRS 2026-2030 consists of strategic planning to ensure the availability of material goods from state reserves, essential for national security in emergency situations, crises or disasters, by strengthening the resilience of the National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues (ANRSPS) and increasing the operational intervention capacity.
The strategy addresses current risks and challenges, including: natural disasters: earthquakes, floods, fires, drought, extreme weather events; man-made disasters and health emergencies; industrial accidents, technological failures, pandemic/epidemics; hybrid threats such as: cyber attacks, disinformation, sabotage of critical infrastructure; geopolitical crises: armed conflicts, aggressions against NATO/EU states; migration and refugees: the need for humanitarian support; competition for critical raw materials and technologies.
The strategic priorities for the period 2026-2030 are: increasing institutional resilience and rapid response capacity to crises; ensuring the supply of food and energy products, including by increasing the level of state stocks; development of storage infrastructure and diversification of strategic stocks (food, energy, barracks materials, critical equipment); strengthening ANRSPS' operational intervention capacity and optimizing the response to emergency situations; digitalization and streamlining the management of the state reserve.
"All these measures are based on the analysis of recent realities, being adapted to the new national and international context. The COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine have demonstrated the vulnerability of supply and the need to increase the capacity to respond to crises. Romania is exposed to seismic risks and extreme climate phenomena. The EU and other developed countries have implemented strategies to build stocks and diversify sources of critical raw materials in order to reduce external dependence and the vulnerability of the food and energy systems," the press release reads.
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