Back Rumıniyanın inkişaf regionları Azerbaijani Рэгіёны развіцця Румыніі Byelorussian Региони на развитие на Румъния Bulgarian Planungsregionen in Rumänien German Περιφέρειες της Ρουμανίας Greek Regiones de desarrollo de Rumania Spanish Romanian kehittämisalueet Finnish Régions de développement de Roumanie French Ռումինիայի զարգացման տարածաշրջաններ Armenian Regioni di sviluppo della Romania Italian
The development regions of Romania (Romanian: Regiunile de dezvoltare ale României) refer to the eight regional divisions created in Romania in 1998 in order to better co-ordinate regional development as Romania progressed towards accession to the European Union (EU). The development regions correspond to NUTS 2-level divisions in EU member states. Despite becoming increasingly significant in regional development projects, Romania's development regions do not actually have an administrative status and do not have a legislative or executive council or government. Rather, they serve a function for allocating EU PHARE funds for regional development, as well as for collection of regional statistics. They also co-ordinate a range of regional development projects and became members of the Committee of the Regions when Romania joined the EU on January 1, 2007.