Activity of the Government on June 16–30, 2008

Appointments. Dismissals

Ion Apostol was nominated Deputy Minister of environment and natural resources.

Decisions

Decision on remuneration of personnel of the public institution Encyclopaedia of Moldova. The personnel of this institution will be remunerated like employees of public law organisations working in the area of science and innovation, but they will be paid a monthly rise worth 1.5 salaries per office for complexity and importance.

Decision on granting the single compensations to young families. Families whose members are younger than 30 years old and work in the budgetary sector will be paid single compensations to build housing (30,000–50,000 lei, depending on the number of children). According to preliminary estimates, about 4,700 young families may be eligible to state assistance within this programme and about 100 million lei is needed for 2008.

Decisions approving draft legal acts:

Concerning prevention and combat of offences committed via information systems;
Concerning modification and completion of the law on state social allocations for certain categories of citizens (rise of allocations for persons looking after invalids at home and 3^rd-degree invalids since the childhood).

Decisions approving plans, concepts, strategies:

The concept of the Integrated Information System of the Border Guard Service;
The action plan on consolidation of migration management and asylum systems in Moldova for 2008–2009;
The action plan on modernisation and optimisation of physical protection of facilities of vital importance and those running a high risk against eventual terrorist attacks for 2008–2010.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Meeting with members of the Association of Banks

Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii has met members of the Association of Moldovan Banks and examined the honouring of the Strategy on development of the financial-banking sector until 2010, actions agreed at the last meeting in this format in March and current evolutions on the financial market. The meeting was part of consultations with the business community. Chairperson of the Association of Banks has reported the implementation of 10 points agreed at the last meeting with the Coordinating Council for the monitoring of financial market headed by Prime minister and raised new initiatives by bank community, in particular, the introduction of a form of strict record documents; strengthening of security of exchanges and modification of the Law on the prevention and combating of money laundering. It was decided to update the Action plan on implementation of the strategy on the development of financial-banking sector and inclusion of the National Commission of Financial Market into the Coordinating Council for the monitoring of financial market.

Report on implementation of the strategy on sustaining the development of internal trade for 2007–2009

The Ministry of Economy and Trade said that the organised trade covered 60 percent and unorganised trade 40 percent of the internal trade in 2007, the structure of trading of food products and manufacturing goods has changed, with the quality of retailing improving. The distribution of trade on regions did not change much compared with 2005. In particular, 60 percent of the retailing was concentrated in the Chisinau municipality, 8 percent in Balti, 11.4% in northern districts, 14.4 percent in the centre of the country, 6 percent in the south and about 3 percent in the administrative-territorial unit Gagauzia. The prime minister described the first year of implementation of the strategy as successful, assuring that most of planned actions have been achieved. At the same time, the prime minister noted that problems relating to entrepreneur’s patents and speculations around the modification of the regime of patent-based activities and those linked to prices of some products prove that the Government shall intensify its efforts in this regard. Mrs. Greceanii promised that the Government will shortly focus on removing risks related to cartel agreements, ensuring competitiveness, particularly in the area of prices and quality.

Sitting of the international reporting commission

A sitting of the commission for the elaboration of reports on honouring of international conventions has studied the situation regarding elaboration of periodical reports at national level and fulfilment of recommendations by specialised U.N. Committee to optimise mechanism of implementation of international conventions by Moldova. The national commission has approved the 2^nd Periodical Report on implementation of the U.N. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the action plan on fulfilment of recommendations by the specialised U.N. Committee on the 2^nd Periodical Report (amalgamated with the third one) by Moldova concerning the U.N. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. It heard a report by the Bureau of Interethnic Relations regarding results of the support at the 72^nd session of the specialised U.N. Committee of Moldova’s periodical report on implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Harvesting campaign

Premier Zinaida Greceanii has discussed with district chairmen actions needed to highly harvest 1st-group grains and other aspects of cooperation between central and local public authorities. The Prime minister stressed the importance of consolidating all decision makers by maintaining a constructive dialogue and noted the opportunity of establishing clear action priorities inclusively for the implementation of infrastructure investment projects.

Sitting of the Emergency Commission

The Prime minister has raised concern with the big number of fires this year, which killed 107 persons. According to Mrs. Greceanii, central public authorities have to intensify cooperation with territorial emergency commissions in order to prevent fires during grain harvesting campaign. At the same time, the civil protection and emergency service and the Ministry of Local Public Administration have been forewarned and instructed to work out an action plan within ten days aimed to optimise cooperation against emergency situations.

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