"With today’s ratification, following the EC approval of February 27, 2008, we are fully prepared to complete all the remaining work and to become the new owners of the Craiova plant in the near future," Ford Europe president John Fleming said.
On Tuesday, the Romanian Chamber of Deputies ratified the law by which Ford buys 13,716,318 shares in Autmobile. The Chamber of Deputies makes the decisional forum in the privatization process.
In September last year, Ford agreed to pay EUR57 million for a 72.4% stake in the state-run Automobile Craiova and pledged to invest another EUR675 million to upgrade the plant.