Activity of the Government on May 16–31, 2007

Appointments. Reshuffles

Dorian Chirosca was appointed as director of the State Agency for Intellectual Property. Previously, Chirosca was deputy director of the same institution.

The Government has appointed Vladimir Botnari as deputy minister of transportation and road management. Previously, Botnari was deputy interior minister and section chief in the Agency for Construction and Territorial Development.

The executive has reconfirmed Nicolae Triboi as director of the National Agency for Energy Regulation.

Decisions

Decision on creation of the judicial administration department. The department will be created on January 1, 2008 as a public institution subordinated to the Ministry of Justice in charge with organisational, administrative and financial ensuring of judges and Courts of Appeals. The personnel will comprise maximum 13 persons.

Decision approving the land cadastre on January 1, 2007. The surface did not change compared with 2005 and it covers 3,384,600 hectares, of which 228,300 hectares of irrigated fields and 69,200 hectares of drained fields. All fields comprise 23.1 percent of state fields, 21.5 percent of fields of administrative territorial units and 55.4 percent of private fields. In comparison with 2005, the surface of fields of water fund increased by 1,100 hectares in 2006, of towns and municipality by 10,500 hectares, fields for protection of nature, healthcare and entertainment by 0,700 hectares, forest fund by 6,100 hectares. At the same time, the surface of fields from reserve fund of mayoralties has decreased by 39,800 hectares and the surface of fields for industry, transportation and other destination has dropped by 0,100 hectares.

Decisions approving some programmes, concepts, strategies:

The 2007 action plan on implementation of e-governing;
Concept of the automatic information system called Fingerprint Register;
Concept of the automatic information system called Register of Criminalist and Criminologist Information;
Concept of the automatic information system called Register of Guarded Objects;
Concept of the automatic information system called State Register of Weapons;
Concept of the Integral Customs Information System.

Decisions concerning:

The Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (2008–2010);
The approval of the regulation on activity of Moldovan diplomatic missions;
The approval of single models of typified forms of civil status acts.

Decisions approving some draft laws:

The draft law on vegetal kingdom;
Concerning public function and status of public functionary;
Concerning probation;
Concerning mortgage;
On modification of some legal acts (85 laws on implementation of the regulatory reform Guillotine-2).

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Giving up the idea to regulate natural monopolies

The Government has given up the idea to promote a draft law on natural monopolies and asked the Ministry of Economy and Commerce jointly with the National Agency for the Protection of Competition to report on opportunity of promoting this document or to exclude it from the 2005–2009 Legislative Programme.

Liberalisation reforms — dependent on implementation acts

The process of legalisation of capital and implementation of tax amnesty did not start yet because of the lack of normative acts on implementation. A special working group led by Deputy Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii has worked out three draft normative acts on this field:

The regulation on execution of tax amnesty;
The instruction on transfer of legalised currency from Moldova individuals and some particularities of activity of financial institutions afferent to the legalisation process;
Provisory regulation on procedure of legalisation of capital on securities market.

Preparations for winter

The Government has approved measures for preparation of national economy and social sector for work on autumn-winter 2007–2008, of them: the action plan on optimisation of the process of acquisition of energy resources; monthly reports on preparation and functioning of budgetary institutions and housing funds from every locality; endorsement of the regulation on management of the special treasury account, etc. The prime minister signalled the need of signing beforehand contracts on acquisition of coal and fuels for budgetary institutions, so that to prevent a deficit like the one registered the last heating season. He asked that firms which admitted irregularities in this area not to be accepted “for at least ten years” and instructed the Centre for the Struggle Against Economic Crimes and Corruption to file penal charges against persons who are to blame for laundering of public money.

Concerns with combating the shadow economy

A working sitting on improvement of situation of domestic trade has discussed the struggle against shadow economy, smuggling and support for domestic producer and consumer. Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev said that these goals may be achieved only if a civilised wholesale trade system exists. The sitting focussed on development of municipal markets, organisation of fairs, and creation of facilities to acquire agricultural products. The Ministry of Economy and Commerce is concerned with drafting a concept on modernisation of markets in the Chisinau municipality and creating a network of supermarkets nationwide.

Assessment of situation in information development sector

A report by the Ministry of Information Development was presented at a sitting on development of information sector convoked by prime minister. According to the report, the activity of competent institutions aims in continuation to improve the legal and normative framework and implement concrete projects on implementation of information systems of state importance, electronic services for citizens and business environment, training of public functionaries in the area of information and communication technologies. The educational programme SALT has built the infrastructure needed for information of all pre-university education institutions in Moldova, with educational software being tested in a number of schools. The prime minister noted that the information process must be impelled, particularly stressing the need of working out a complex information programme for central and local public authorities. With purpose to achieve a better monitoring on execution of legal, normal acts and national strategies, the Ministry of Information Development jointly with the Government’s Apparatus will create and implement the analytical information system of the cabinet of ministers.

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