Activity of the Government on March 29 – April 11, 2006

Reshuffles

The Government has proposed to recall Moldova’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan Efim Chilari, who also holds the posts of ambassador to Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and India.

Decisions

Decision approving the size of the single birth indemnity. Under the document, the single birth indemnity for every new born will account for 800 lei starting January 1, 2006, by 300 lei more than previously.
Decision on allocation of finances. The Finance Ministry was told to allocate 500,000 lei from the reserve fund of the executive for execution of designing works for reconstruction of the holiday camp for children in the village of Romanesti, the district of Straseni, for a further location of the National Centre of Olympic Training.
Decision on implementation of the programme on humanitarian aid including food products. The document was adopted with the purpose to implement the programme on humanitarian food aid presented by the International Partnership for Human Development (IPHD) of the United States, International Partnership for Development (IPD) and the Moldovan Medical Foundation, which calls for donation of food products to complete the daily ratio of kindergartens and schools in 2006. It establishes organisational measures for execution of the programme at local level, while the caches of foodstuffs and allocated finances are described as humanitarian aid and they are exempted from any conscriptions.
Decision approving the nomenclature of free and pay-for services provided by State Weather Service. The regulation on mode of use of special means of the Weather Service is approved along with nomenclatures, but it contains an evasive formula — the obtained means are used under conditions stipulated by normative acts in effect to hold statutory activities of the Service, including to cover expenses related to providing of these services.

Sittings. Decisions. Declarations

Implementation of mandatory health insurance

A sitting convoked by prime minister heard a report of the National Company for Health Insurance which says that the state will compensate the cost of policies for 1.5 million persons in 2006 and about one billion lei will be used for this purpose. Appreciating the activity in the field, the prime minister demanded the organisation of additional actions aimed to train medical personnel in order to eliminate ethic problems in relations between doctors and patients, for advertising of advantages of the mandatory health insurance system. Tarlev ordered competent bodies to study possibilities to include parents who look after 1st-degree disabled children, mothers of many children in the list of beneficiaries of state-financed insurance.

Concerns with consumption cooperation

Participating in the republican meeting of the Union of Consumption Cooperation Moldcoop, Vasile Tarlev described this sector as important for national economy, but criticised its slow modernisation. The government asked Moldcoop to contribute to recovery of the organised trade network in rural localities, direct acquisition of agricultural products, development of production sector and elaboration of a strategy on promotion of exports through cooperatist enterprises. The prime minister asked an urgent inventory of all real estate of consumption cooperation in order to enhance the efficiency of administration of cooperatist patrimony.

Speech at CEFTA meeting

Vasile Tarlev has attended a meeting of premiers of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), expressing the visions of Moldovan authorities within European economic cooperation by using possibilities resulted from participation of Moldova in regional initiatives in South East Europe, as well as from future modified CEFTA agreement for which Moldova is declaring its support a priori.

Moldova — E.U. Cooperation Council

Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev headed a delegation of Moldova participating in the meeting of the Moldova — European Union Cooperation Council in Luxembourg on April 10–11, 2006.

Vasile Tarlev sought the autonomous system of preferences in commercial relations with the E.U. at a meeting with Benita Ferrero-Waldner. The E.U. commissioner expressed readiness of the European community to contribute to Moldova’s integration in regional structures and organisations, indicating the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) in the context.

E.U. Council Secretary-General Javier Solana, E.U. high representative for foreign policy and common security, has confirmed during a meeting with Moldova’s prime minister that the E.U. stands ready to assist the continuation of implementation of democratic process, securing of the Transnistrian section of the Moldovan-Ukrainian border and settlement of situation in commercial relations with the Russian Federation. Moldova was told to identify concrete fields where the E.U. could additionally help our country. The sides discussed the facilitation of visa regime for the Republic of Moldova, but no draft decisions in this regard are available and supported so far.

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