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Activity of the Government on September 1–15, 2007

Decisions

Decision approving the farm land consolidation regulation. The farm land merging process financed by the World Bank (about 700,000 dollars) will begin in several localities. This is a temporary regulation and it could be necessary to modify the legislation on this area after the implementation of projects. According to some data, 6 percent of the private farm land was consolidated in 2006 and the process will be accelerated thanks to foreign assistance (the estimated expenses for the farm land consolidation process exceed 340 million lei). Info-Prim Neo news agency has quoted Premier Vasile Tarlev as saying that majority of scientists, experts and politicians have convinced themselves of the need to consolidate the land and “10 years were needed to persuade the donors who financed the division into plots and destruction to additionally finance the land consolidation.”

Decision on creation of the fund to guarantee the grain deposit certificates. The fund will be a legal entity chaired by an administrator appointed by its management board.

Decision on introduction of the Day of Grandmother. This day will be celebrated every year on September 30 and it was proposed by the first lady of Moldova.

Decision approving some regulations on collection, use and record of consular fees and special taxes for pay-for services of diplomatic structures. These funds will finance the activity of diplomatic institutions and some of them will go to the state budget as revenues. It is worth to note that the Chamber of Auditors has signalled many violations related to administration of these sources, ordering the revision of normative procedures and acts on this field.

Decisions approving some draft laws seeking:

Decisions approving some programmes, concepts, strategies:

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Concerns with preventing ECHR sentences

Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev has stated while on a visit to the Constitutional Court that a new mechanism must be implemented nationwide to settle the cases that make the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sentence Moldova. He evoked this opportunity as the number of ECHR judgments against Moldova is on the rise and this is a major problem of the country at present. The premier assured that the executive is not behind with executing the ECHR judgments and “the good cooperation is observed in current activities as well, when the Government notifies the Constitutional Court over constitutionality of some decisions.”

Note: Constitutional jurisdiction reports released in 2001–2007 contradict Tarlev’s statements because the Government has notified the Constitutional Court only once, in 2001, and there is no cooperation in the field of appealing, while the acting executive cannot critically or legally approach the Parliament or Presidency.

Sitting of the Commission for Emergencies

The premier has chaired a sitting of the Republican Commission for Emergencies, which focussed on agriculture. It was established after working groups have presented reports on areas that the food security is stable and competent bodies monitor it strictly. The premier regretted that the funds allocated by Government to subsidise farmers affected by drought remain on account for one month and not all of them are used, instructing competent bodies to urgently disseminate the subsidies by the end of September. He asked the minister of economy and commerce to study how prices of dairy and first-need food products are formed and to table efficient proposals aimed to improve the situation in this area. Tarlev assures that higher prices of social bread would be unjustified at least till the New Year and the Government is ready to intervene with its reserves in order to keep the current prices.

2008 budget

The draft state budget, state social insurance budget and mandatory health insurance budget have been delivered to the Government for examination. The minister of finance said that the overall revenues of the national public budget for 2008 are estimated at about 23,308,000,000 lei, which is by 8 percent more than expected in 2007. The planned expenditures are estimated at 23,592,600,000 lei, by 20 percent more than this year. The main factors that increased the expenses include larger transfers to the mandatory health insurance funds, summer vacations of children, compensations for connection to natural gas pipe paid to some categories of population from rural areas, larger expenses for reimbursement of preferential credits to some categories of population, rise of the scholarship fund of vocational schools, larger allocations for programmes on science and innovation. Capital investments in building sector will grow by 51 percent, compared with 2007. Foreign loans worth 660.5 million lei shall be reimbursed in 2008. As much as 574 million lei was reserved to serve the internal state debt in budget. The Gross Domestic Product for 2008 is expected to grow by 7 percent, compared with expectations for this year, up to 56.8 billion lei. The prime minister indicated the need of optimising the maintenance expenses and increasing at maximum the investments, seeking an assessment of possibilities to additionally support young specialists, an impulse to mortgage building of apartments, higher single birth indemnities, encouragement of the gasification process, endowment of medical institutions with equipment, etc. He also stressed the importance of readjusting the draft budget law for 2008 to provisions of the National Development Plan which is being finalised.

Agricultural strategy elaborated in 2 months

Vasile Tarlev has chaired a sitting of the state commission in charge with drafting the National Sustainable Agro-Industrial Development Strategy, at which the draft strategy concept was presented and approved and proposals and tasks seeking an efficient document were raised. According to the concept, the strategy will focus on 5 areas — the present situation in agro-industrial sector and SWOT analysis; the sustainable development goals of agro-industrial sector; the policies on implementation of goals and the performance indicators of a sustainable development of agro-industrial sector. The Academy of Sciences, social partners, competent NGOs, and experience of other states have been consulted to work out the concept. Tarlev noted that the Government is relying on an active contribution of scientists, agricultural trade unions and NGOs. At the same time, the document must reflect the interests of farmers and ensure conditions to grow non-pollutant, internationally competitive products.

Speeding up the implementation of E.U.-Moldova Action Plan

Premier Tarlev has demanded at a sitting of the National Commission for European Integration that all provisions of the European Union-Moldova Action Plan (EUMAP) be finished by November 17, 2007 (March 1, 2008 is the formal deadline). Some shortcomings of this process were revealed, stressing the importance of operatively remedying the signalled debts. Tarlev asked decision makers to adopt firmer stances capable to ensure an important progress in efficiently implementing all chapters of the Action Plan. Also, it was underlined the need of giving an impulse to work of Moldovan diplomatic missions to E.U. In particular, Tarlev stressed the importance of implementing the EUMAP chapters on reformation of the judiciary.

Videoconference on autumn agricultural works

Central and local public authorities have attended a videoconference on harvesting of late crops, autumn sowing and ploughing. According to reports, late crops are being harvested and good results were observed for the grape crop (about 560,000 tons are expected overall, by approximately 100,000 tons more than in 2006). All districts have already received the Government’s subsidies to work the land. The premier asked the local public administration to speed up the issuance of the lists of beneficiaries of subsidies, so that to support them more operatively.

Interview with TV channel Moldova 1

The prime minister has tackled several topics:

August 1–31, 2007 September 16–30, 2007