Reshuffles
On May 26, Lilia Dumitras was appointed as Councillor to Senior Deputy Prime-Minister Vasile Iovv, whereas Ion Moraru was appointed as Deputy Director of the Migration Department. Also, Government ousted Gheorghe Caraivanov from his position as administrator of “Tvardita” Free Economic Zone and appointed Ion Borov as interim.
Decisions
- On May 19, Government approved UN Convention on fighting transnational organized crime and Additional Protocol to the Convention on illegal traffic of emigrants by land, air, or water. Given the ever-growing scale of human trafficking, Republic of Moldova being one of its main sources in Europe, adoption of this kind of legislation is a must. Once these documents are ratified by Parliament, corresponding amendments shall be operated to the national legislation. However, more importantly those documents should not gather dust but rather be enforced. For this to happen political will and persistent efforts of the state institutions and civil society are paramount, which are to be backed up by ongoing assistance of the international organizations in the field.
- Same day Government approved the draft law on special couriers state service. Under the draft, the service shall be part of security services and would be an independent body of special destination government liaison, entrusted to store, ship and distribute operatively state official correspondence.
- On May 26, Government endorsed the Action Plan on celebrating 645th anniversary since the Moldovan feudal state was established. A special commission set up in this respect by the Government shall be responsible for the celebrations.
- Under another Governmental motion Article 116 of the Law on Supreme Court of Justice is to be amended, thereby setting a 4 year mandate for the Court Chair and Deputy Chairs. If voted by the Parliament, the mandate of the Court Chair and Deputy Chairs shall be equalled to that of other courts.
- Of special interest is the Government drawn list of units, departments and services whose employees shall not be allowed to go on strike. This restriction introduced in Article 369, Chapter IV of the Labour Code refers to: employees of the apparatus of the Parliament, Presidency, State Chancellery, internal affairs bodies, Information and Security Service, Centre for Combating Economic Crime and Corruption, military, Department of Penitentiary Institutions, Department of Emergency Situations, Department of Border Guards, judges. In addition, employees of “Moldtelecom”, “Apa-Canal Chisinau”, emergency guard in hospitals, employees of air traffic control and some employees of the Customs Department may not go on strike as well.