Activity of the Government on March 1–15, 2008

Appointments. Dismissals

The Government has appointed two deputy directors of the Centre for the Struggle Against Economic Crimes and Corruption:

Andrei Ivancov will run the Operative Investigation Department;
Vitalie Verebceanu will run the Prevention and Analysis Department.

Tatiana Vieru was appointed deputy director of the Licensing Chamber.

Dragos Vicol was assigned senior state advisor, advisor for Deputy Prime Minister Victor Stepaniuc.

Valentin Vizant was relieved from the post of director of the State Administration of Civil Aviation.

Under a decision by the Supreme Security Council, the Government was convoked for an extraordinary sitting and it dismissed Stanislav Gordea from the post of director of the National Regulatory Agency for Telecommunications and Informatics and reprimanded Minister of Information Development Vladimir Molojen.

Decisions

Decisions approving some regulations:

Concerning subsidised insurance of risks and facilities in agriculture in 2008;
Concerning registration of veterinary medications;
Concerning privatisation of rented rooms;
Concerning public acquisitions via the Commodity Exchange of Moldova;
The methodology of calculation of basic insurance premium and rectification coefficients on mandatory civil responsibility insurance for damages produced by motor vehicles.

Decisions approving programmes, concepts, strategies:

The 2008–15 programme on eradication and prevention of bovine enzootic leucosis;

Decisions approving draft laws:

Concerning the legal status of adoption;
Concerning the labour migration;

Decisions on allocation of funds:

As much as 1,241,200 lei is allocated from the reserve fund of the Government to compensate losses related to tax exemption of owners of land fields located on the other side of the Ribnita-Tiraspol highway;
As much as 70,000 lei is allocated from the same reserve fund to the central apparatus of the Ministry of Local Public Administration (for personnel, current and capital expenses). The 2008 budget of the Ministry of Local Public Administration accounts for 5,284,400 lei.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Implementation of action programme

The Government has heard a report on implementation of the action programme Modernisation of Country — Welfare of People in 2007, noting in a decision that:

The GDP has increased by 3 percent in 2007, compared with 2006, up to 53.4 billion lei;
Investments have grown by 19.9 percent (in comparable prices), compared with the same period of 2006;
Exports have grown by 27.6 percent while imports by 37 percent;
The domestic currency has appreciated by 1.9 percent versus U.S. dollar in 2007;
Incomes worth 22.2 billion lei were raised to the national public budget in 2007, which is a 24.6-percent rise compared with 2006, while expenses accounted for 22.4 billion lei and increased by 24.4 percent;
The medium monthly salary in national economy amounted to 2,063 lei in 2007 and it increased by 8.2 percent in real terms, compared with 2006. The average salary in the budgetary sector amounted to 1,625 lei, while in the real sector of economy it accounted for 2,229 lei. The medium monthly pension on January 1, 2008 amounted to 548.3 lei and it has increased by 24 percent, compared with January 1, 2007, while the real value of the pension has grown by 9.6 percent;
The industry and the agriculture have regressed.

Priority tasks for 2008 include among others intensified prevention and struggle against corruption and economic-financial crimes committed by central public authorities; implementation of the “one-stop-shop”; combat of crimes and intensified anti-crime cooperation with civil society; development of telecommunication technologies; general measures to prevent sentencing by ECHR, etc.

Development of financial-bank institutions

A meeting convoked by prime minister has studied situation of financial institutions and banks, which has improved accordingly to the Moldovan Association of Banks and majority of indicators are on the rise. At the same time, bankers have signalled unsettled problems: the legislation on rights of banks guaranteed through a pledge should be updated; the e-governing system should be urgently implemented and an electronic information exchange system should be built; measures aimed to stimulate discounting via transfer with credit cards should be implemented; etc. Prime minister noted that the interest rate on credits is high so far, given the macroeconomic stability achieved by Moldova in the last years. All initiatives on optimisation of the banking system will be included in an action plan and implementation terms and functionaries in charge will be established.

Sitting of the National Commission for European Integration (NCEI)

Prime minister has chaired a NCEI sitting on development prospects of Moldova-E.U. relations. Minister of foreign affairs and European integration reported latest developments in the Moldova-E.U. dialogue and further priorities, reiterating the option to negotiate a new and more advanced legal status of relations with E.U. Prime minister stressed the need of ensuring a continuity of actions aimed to build constant relations of cooperation between Moldova and E.U., inclusively by continuing reforms. For this purpose, a priority action plan for 2008 will be finalised. The document will establish tasks of every institution in continuing reforms to modernise Moldova and implementing European standards, implementation terms and persons in charge.

Territorial sanitation

A sitting on sanitation of localities has heard a report by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. According to the report, 2,682 illegal garbage sites were destroyed in 2007, another 163 were arranged and authorised, tens of hectares of parks, squares and bands near motorways were cleaned, 216 fields were selected to build new household waste depots. Prime minister was unsatisfied with the way a decision on planting of nut trees across public roads and railways has been implemented, warning minister of transportation and road management in this regard. He considers that central and local public authorities do not take practical actions to radically improve the sanitation. At the same, a stricter control on allocations from the National Environmental Fund and local funds is required, so that to be sure that beneficiaries of projects honour their commitments.

Updating governmental website

The updated official website www.gov.md was launched on March 3, accordingly to the Government Decision on Official Website of the Moldovan Government. The updated website will provide information, photos and video records, as well as online broadcasts. A column called online antechamber was launched to provide visitors with the opportunity to communicate with Government members, functionaries of ministries and departments. However, the website does not cover all draft normative acts examined by executive and other useful information which would enhance much the transparency and probity of the Government.

Visit to prisons

Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev has visited the prisons # 9 and # 16 in the Chisinau municipality and collected facts about these institutions, detention conditions and modernisation of the penitentiary system. He said that in spite of all actions, detention conditions in prisons should be improved, in order to adjust them to national and European standards. Tarlev noted that a state commission will revise criminal norms, in order to modernise and prevent jailing for not very grave offences, economic and patrimonial violations and depopulate penitentiaries.

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