Activity of the Government on July 17–31, 2007

Appointments. Reshuffles

The Government has given green light to a proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration to recall the Moldovan ambassador to Greece, Iulian Magaleas.
Semion Carp, former deputy interior minister and commander of the Carabineer Troops, was appointed as rector of the Police Academy Stefan cel Mare.
Mircea Buga was dismissed from the post of first deputy director of the National Health Insurance Company and appointed as deputy health minister.
Igor Semenovker was dismissed from the post of director of the Agency for Constructions and Territorial Development and Vladimir Baldovici, general entrepreneur of rebuilding works at the Capriana Monastery Complex, succeeded him. Anatolie Izbinda was dismissed from the post of deputy director of the Agency for Constructions and Territorial Development, at the request of the Supreme Security Council.
Petru Silivestru was dismissed from the post of deputy minister of environment.

Decisions

Decision approving the regulation on e-mail system of public authorities. The Information and Security Service will ensure the functioning and security of the system. The system will be gradually built by 2009.

Decision on creation of a working group to monitor the strategic foreign direct investment inflows and related transactions. Under this decision, central bodies of public administration will coordinate beforehand with the working group all actions for promotion of strategic investments in national economy and will take actions to attract investments only after the working group makes a decision in this respect.

Decision on monitoring of import operations. The state will regulate the prices of a series of goods imported by individuals and businesses. The Customs Service will monitor the import transactions of economic agents and will notify the State Tax Inspectorate and the Centre for the Struggle Against Economic Crimes and Corruption, if it discovers that the prices of goods are by 40 percent higher than the prices from this decision. This mechanism aims to discover fiscal evasions after undervaluation of imported goods at customs stations and to enhance budget collections on account of customs duties.

Decision on implementation of the action programme on implementation of the new system of evaluation of real estate for taxation. As many as 20,035 commercial real estates and 6,458 industrial real estates have been evaluated and data on 40,329 garages and 24,543 plots of fruit-growing associations have been collected in the period concerned (from October 1, 2006 to May 1, 2007). The list of problems includes: non-presentation of lists of holders of the right to location of non-privatised apartments, insufficient cooperation between territorial cadastral offices and local public administrations, etc.

Decisions approving some programmes, concepts, strategies:

Moldova’s energy strategy till 2020;
The concept of the automatic information system called register of infrastructure of law bodies;
The concept of the integrated system of circulation of electronic documents;
The national plan on implementation of the 2006–09 joint programme of the European Commission and Council of Europe on enhancing of independence, transparency and efficiency of justice in Moldova.

Decisions approving some draft laws:

Concerning the state registration of individual entrepreneurs and legal entities;
Concerning the modification of the law on police (exclusion of provisions on financing of the municipal police from local budgets).

Decisions on allocation of finances from the reserve fund of the Government:

The Moldova-Vin Agency receives one million lei to purchase laboratory equipment needed to control the quality of alcohol production;
The Causeni District Council gets one million lei to restore the museum house Alexei Mateevici;
The Government’s Apparatus receives 2,012,000 lei to pay the works for installation of an illumination system at the Condrita Complex;
The Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre receives more than 7 million lei to purchase fields for construction of the railway line Cahul-Giurgiulesti (1.8 million lei) from private property to state property; implementation of the investment agreement on the Giurgiulesti Free International Port (4.9 million lei); purchase of some private fields used to build the railway line Revaca-Cainari (400,000 lei).

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Working group for problems of entrepreneurs

The prime minister has met representatives of the Foreign Investors Associations in Moldova and the talks focussed on attraction of more investments. Investors said that the dialogue between central public administration and business community has advanced much in the past years and new investments in Moldovan economy have essentially helped improving the business community. In particular, it was stressed that the Government is receptive to diverse problems, including those signalled in the White Book. At the same time, investors said that actions aimed at improving the legislative-normative and fiscal framework must continue, in order to create new stimulatory conditions for attraction of foreign capital in Moldova. In the context, they signalled a series of problems that must be solved via a permanent dialogue. In order to maintain a permanent and efficient dialogue, it was decided to create a special working group to operatively work out and propose optimal solutions to problems occurring in entrepreneurial activity.

Proposals of young prime ministers concerning the draft National Development Plan (NDP)

Members of the club of young prime ministers have discussed aspects of the NDP goals and raised proposals worked out after consulting sittings with the participation of youths from areas, diverse nongovernmental organisations. The initiatives seek more support for participation of youths in social and economic processes in country. The prime minister encouraged the youths to continue their active participation in public debates and drafting of diverse documents on youth. In the context, the prime minister asked the club members to study and tell their opinions about the functioning concept of the Republican Youth Centre.

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