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Activity of the Government on March 5–18, 2007

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Appointments. Reshuffles

The executive has dismissed the deputy director of the Custom Service, Anatolie Barbarosie, and the deputy chief of the Border Guard Service, Anatol Gorila, without making public the reasons.

The Government accepted the candidacies raised for the post of Moldovan judge to the European Court of Human Rights. The three candidates selected by a special governmental commission are:[1]

Decisions

Decision approving the national programme on promotion of a healthy lifestyle for 2007–2015. The document does not establish the cost of implementation and does not allocate concrete resources needed for this purpose, and the executive established only that the actions stipulated by this programme will be funded in the limit of means foreseen in the state budget, budgets of administrative territorial units, mandatory health insurance funds and contributions of international organisations, donations and grants.

Decision on extension of some facilities for Transnistria-based economic agents. Under amendments operated by executive, the Transnistria-based economic agents may obtain goods origin certificates under preferential conditions, even if they are temporarily registered with competent bodies of Moldova.

Decision on building of the high-pressure branch gas pipe Balti-Ungheni. The gas pipe will have branches in the districts of Singerei, Falesti and Telenesti, with the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure being appointed as beneficiary. The stock society Gazproiect will carry out the feasibility study and projecting as “single institution that holds a licence for projecting of gas pipe lines.”

Decision approving the action plan on consolidation of farm land. The document stipulates measures for 2007, monitoring of implementation by a special council. Independent experts outline that decisions and actions taken in this field are spontaneous and unmotivated, noting that the executive has demanded the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry and the Academy of Sciences just in the recent decision to propose the “inclusion of the scientific argumentation of the farm land consolidation process among issues of research.”

Decision on allocation of funds. The Government has obliged the Ministry of Finance to allocate 40.5 million lei from general incomes of the state budget[2] to district councils, the Balti Municipal Council and the Administrative Territorial Unit Gagauzia to “arrange the cities during the bimonthly ecological campaign” (by one million lei on average). The decision also stipulates that local public authorities who will demonstrate a maximum efficiency in using the funds to arrange the cities during the bimonthly ecological campaign will receive another one million lei “from Government” to continue these works.

Decisions approving some draft laws:

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Concerns with situation of agriculture

Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev has convoked a republican conference on situation of agriculture and preparations for spring agricultural works. According to a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, about 370,000 hectares were seeded last autumn, while winter temperatures did not affect the cereal crops and vineyards. The executive will continue subsidising some agricultural activities in 2007 in order to sustain the agriculture, and their number will be extended (the development of ecological agro-food production and planting of nut trees will be sustained). A special fund is operating to repay the value-added tax for the purchase of agricultural machines. The prime minister asked the Ministry of Agriculture and local authorities to speed up the measures needed to work all farm land. The Ministry of Finance and district subdivisions of the State Tax Inspectorate were told to unblock the accounts of farmers, so that to be able to hold the spring agricultural campaign operatively. The premier paid a special attention to functioning of the anti-hail system, noting that at least one million hectares of farm land will be protected this year.

The prime minister has told a sitting on optimisation of the system of procurement of agro-food products that the existing procurement system will be radically improved in order to implement a more efficient and transparent mechanism. Vasile Tarlev sought an efficient mechanism for collection of agro-food products from producers directly, in order to ensure the needs of budgetary institutions working in education, healthcare sectors, social protection, etc., systems. Under indications, competent institutions will work out within one month a concept on improvement of the system of procurement of agro-food products and a plan on collection of this production, especially in rural sectors. At the same time, the prime minister noted that the products purchased for needs of public institutions must correspond to quality and price parameters.

  1. ↑ Mass media, experts including members of the commission created by Government to select candidates to the post of judge to the ECHR raise doubts over skills and professional abilities of the selected persons (see the March 14 issue of newspaper Timpul de Dimineata). There are serious objections against each of the three selected candidates, inclusively insufficient experience in jurisprudence field, low professionalism, insufficient knowledge of foreign languages, subordination to some political pressures and illegal actions committed while on duty (for which disciplinary sanctions were applied).
  2. ↑ Allocation of funds “from general incomes of the state budget” is a quasi legal, unplanned modality of distribution of public finances and the Chamber of Auditors has earlier warned over limitation of such practices, while the parliamentary opposition described these actions of the Government as misuse of power and arrogation of competences.
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