Activity of the Government on August 1–31, 2009

On August 26, the Government adopted the decision on its resignation, without publicly presenting the report on achievement of the action plan approved in July 2009, which focussed on “keeping the Republic of Moldova on the world map.”

Appointments. Dismissals

Sergiu Sitnic was relieved from the post of director of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) upon his demand.

Under a Government decision, Valeriu Diozu, former presidential advisor for information development affairs, was assigned ANRCETI director.

Adrian Cazacu was appointed director-general of the Agency for Geology and Mineral Resources controlled by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Previously, Cazacu was deputy director of the same agency.

Valentin Mejinschi was accepted by Government as Extraordinary and Potential Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to Poland.

Boris Golovin was assigned director-general of the Drug Agency, being relieved from the office of deputy minister of health.

Gheorghe Rusu was relieved from the post of director-general of the National Health Insurance Company (CNAM) upon his demand. The former deputy health minister, Mircea Buga, was nominated CNAM director-general.

Decisions

Decision approving the Regulation of the Agency for Geology and Mineral Resources. The agency will be controlled by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and will have a maximum staff of 28 persons (except for the service personnel), being the legal successor of the AGeoM State Agency for Geology of the Republic of Moldova. The Main State Inspectorate for Technical Supervision of Dangerous Industrial Objectives will deliver to the agency the register, projects and documents of mine fields.

Decisions approving some regulations:

The regulation concerning the record of traffic contraventions and access of holders of driver’s licences to reports on penalty points;
The regulation concerning the application and examination of applications for invention brevets and issuing of brevets;
The concept of the automatic information system called state “register of domestic violence cases”;
The sanitary regulation on food supplements;
The regulation concerning the coercive treatment for patients suffering from catching tuberculosis;
The regulation on organising the work of interpreters and translators of the Superior Council of Magistracy, Ministry of Justice, prosecution organs, criminal investigation organs, law courts, notaries, lawyers and judicial executors.

Decisions on allocation of funds:

The executive committee of Gagauzia was allocated 400,000 lei to organise and hold the 2^nd World Congress of Gagauzians on August 18–19;
As much as 10,000 US dollars went to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund from allocations foreseen in the state budget in 2009 to pay Moldova’s fees as UN member;

Sittings. Decisions

Honouring of social and external commitments

According to data provided by minister of finance, the Government does not have any debt for social payments and external debt service, as the last 100 million lei to serve a debt of Moldova contracted from the Russian Federation in 1992–1994 was transferred on July 30, 2009. Prime minister indicated that the unimportant expenses should be postponed, while the Ministry of Finance was instructed to revise the schedule of transfer of funds to accounts of local public administrations, so that to prevent any difficulties in honouring social payments.

Reduction of natural gas tariff

Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii has stated that the average natural gas tariff for final consumers will shortly decrease by at least 10 percent, as starting the third quarter of this year Moldova imports Russian gas for a price of 186.85 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres, which is by about 25 percent lower than the last quarter.

Reduction of budgetary incomes

According to a report by the Ministry of Finance, the state budget incomes were by 1.38 billion lei lower than planned, decreasing by more than 1.1 billion lei compared with the similar period of last year. Budgetary expenses exceeded 9.1 billion lei, which is 78.5 percent of the planned indicators, by nearly 1 billion lei more than last year. In January-July Moldova operated external payments worth 43.8 million dollars, and 416.5 million lei (31.2 million dollars and 319 million lei in 2008) was spent on the internal state debt. Budgets of administrative territorial units collected revenues worth 3.69 billion lei, by 616.5 million lei less than planned, while expenses amounted to 3.72 billion lei (by 1.35 billion lei less).

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