Activity of the Government on February 1–15, 2008

Appointments. Dismissals

Ion Perju was nominated deputy minister of agriculture and food industry. Previously, Perju headed a directorate in the same ministry.

Mihai Vieru was relieved from the post of deputy chief of the Government Apparatus, as he has changed his job.

Decisions

Decisions:

Concerning measures aimed at development and technical-material ensuring of the sector operative police service for 2008–2010;
Concerning introduction of passports and other travel documents containing supplementary biometrical data;
Approving the regulation on acquisition of commodities and services by demanding price offers;
Concerning uniforms for clerks of law courts;
Concerning activity of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre in 2007.

Decisions approving programmes, concepts, strategies:

The action plan on implementation of the National Development Strategy for 2008–2011;
The land transportation infrastructure strategy for 2008–2017.

Decisions approving draft laws:

Concerning modification of the law on Government (it stipulates the dissolution of the Ministry of Industry and infrastructure and takeover of its functions by the Ministry of Economy and Commerce);
Concerning modification of the Code of Administrative Contraventions (severer sanctions for salary arrears);
Concerning privatisation of fields and measures to ensure military of the National Army with housing (the Government reacted inclusively after the recent loss of a case at the ECHR for failure to ensure the housing of a military).

Decisions on allocation of funds:

The Licensing Chamber is allocated 320,000 lei from the reserve fund “to purchase a car”;
More than 130,000 lei are allocated to cover occasional expenses for organisation of official receptions by Moldovan president (in the Russian Federation and on occasion of winter holidays).

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Medium-term expense framework

Prime minister has convoked a working sitting on elaboration of the expense framework for 2009–2011, stressing that basic principles of the draft document shall be in a tight correlation with the National Development Strategy and Government’s Action Programme. Key directions of the budgetary-fiscal policy for the next three years shall ensure at least a 6-percent annual growth of the Gross Domestic Product, maintain the annual inflation rate below 10 percent, increase salaries, pensions and scholarships accordingly to the objectives from the Government’s Action Programme. It shall focus on sustenance of the real sector of economy, renovation of infrastructure, maximal optimisation of capital investments by concentrating on key objectives and preventing the dispersion of funds, attracting deposits from individuals in investment projects on basis of public and private partnership. The premier underlined the importance of hardening the public expense policy by introducing a stricter control on the use of public funds, as well as of revising the taxation policy in order to attract investors in the rural sector.

Sustenance programme for sector police inspectors

The Interior Ministry has reported the elaboration of a programme on development and technical-material ensuring of the sector operative police service for 2008–2010 and meetings with potential donors — donor financial organisations which agreed to help financing actions stipulated by this programme. The prime minister stressed the necessity of urgently approving the document, noting that all measures will be implemented in parallel, so that to resolve problems related to endowment of police sectors with computers, telephone connection, and other necessary equipment by late February. As 2008 was declared the Year of the Youth, Vasile Tarlev demanded the inclusion of actions aimed to support all policemen who will work in the territory in the plan on implementation of the programme concerned.

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