Activity of the Government on February 1–16, 2007

Appointments. Reshuffles

The Government has reconfirmed Grigore Belostecinic as rector of the Moldovan Academy of Economics.

Decisions

Decision on creation of the centre for the adjustment of legislation in accordance with criteria of the European Union. The centre subordinated to the Ministry of Justice will examine draft legal and normative acts, will monitor the compliance of national legislation with criteria established by acquis communautaire. The executive will allocate 1.2 million lei from its reserve fund to finance the activity of the centre in 2007.

Decision that approves the national programme ensuring the ecological security for 2007–2015. Under the document, starting 2007 the national system for monitoring of air quality will be modernised, a regulation on quality of surface waters and norms for used waters will be elaborated, draft laws on sanitation of Moldovan localities, on dangerous waste, on management of chemical substances will be worked out. Central and local authorities will approve departmental and local plans ensuring ecological security and will periodically report on implementation of the national programme to the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

Decision on additional measures regulating the circulation of firearms and munitions. It allows the police bodies to authorise the possession, sale, keeping, holding and carriage of firearms and munitions from illegal possession of citizens who delivered them voluntarily to interior bodies. The Interior Ministry will establish the procedure of reception, examination and authorisation of illegal weapons and munitions delivered voluntarily.

Decision on commission for the selection of candidates for the post of judge to the ECHR. The 14-strong commission is headed by minister of justice and will select candidates by March 9, 2007, accordingly to a special recommendation by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Three selected candidacies will be presented to the Government for a final internal decision and the candidate selected by Government will need the consent of PACE. The mandate of the acting Moldovan judge to the ECHR expires in October 2007.

Decision approving the programme on distribution of means from the traffic fund in 2007. Maximum profitableness limits of 10 percent for maintenance works and 7 percent for repairs are established for entrepreneurial organisations participating in implementation of this programme.

Decision approving the strategy on reformation of state framework regulating the entrepreneurial activity^[1]. The strategy is approved and it contains several sections (description of current situation; necessities of approach; improvement of direction system; ensuring quality of new regulations and improving the existing regulations; principles of regulatory reform; goals and objectives of the reform; expected results; eventual risks; monitoring of implementation). Also, the Government approved an action plan for implementation of the strategy. Central authorities will include in their action plans the actions needed to implement the strategy and will present periodical reports on execution of established measures.

Decisions approving some draft laws:

on conflict of interests;
on modification of law on salary system in budgetary sector (gradual rise of salaries of some budgetary workers).

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Permanent concerns with domestic trade

Reports on situation of domestic trade, measures taken by responsible officials were presented at a working sitting chaired by prime minister. Premier raised dissatisfaction with situation in the field, noting that an efficient trade system is not created on domestic market so far, not all rights of consumers are respected, adequate conditions of work for vendors are not created, transparent circulation of money is not ensured. In this regard, prime minister welcomed actions taken by Ministry of Economy to implement the reform in trade system, the regulatory reform and to simplify the accounting record modality. The Ministry of Health was asked to work out an action plan on protection of rights of consumers and implementation of a new methodology of monitoring of activities in domestic trade sector. Vasile Tarlev outlined the need of minimising the number of controls on economic agents and embittering punishments for violation of legislation. The draft law on internal trade will be consulted with factors participating in this process, including civil society.

Meeting with representatives of Moldovan Foreign Investors Association

A meeting between prime minister and representatives of the association focussed on a better investment climate, measures needed to attract more investments in national economy. Investors consider that the dialogue between central public administration and business community has developed very much in the past years and, therefore, many problems of businessmen have been solved. In particular, the taxation system was simplified after the fiscal burden was reduced, the legislation has improved, tax and monetary policies have become stable and predictable, the regulatory reform has developed. In this context, the prime minister opted for the elaboration of a joint action plan, which would include a package of coordinated actions and announced the elaboration of a programme aimed to combat corruption in public bodies.

↑ It is worth to note that the strategy has appeared after the Parliament and Government took some measures in this regard (the laws on guillotine, methodologies of evaluation of regulatory impact, and others). The approval of the strategy in early 2007 leads to the conclusion that the previous approaches have not been “strategic” and evaluated well beforehand, they have been spontaneous and the need of establishing some criteria of principle, of system was observed when they were implemented.

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