Activity of the Government on February 15–28, 2010

Appointments

Victor Tutuc is appointed as Director of the Inspectorate of General Phytosanitary Supervision and Control over the Plant Seeds;
Basil Bahau is appointed as Director of the Sanitary Veterinary Agency for Ensure the Animal Health and Food Safety;
Gheorghe Rusu and Constantin Sula are appointed as deputy Directors of the Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption;
Vitalie Verebceanu resigned from the position of CCECC deputy Director upon request.

Decisions, orders

Decision on the implementation of the Law on transparency in the decision making. This decision approved the Regulation on procedures to ensure transparency in the development and adoption of decisions, and the State Chancellery, ministries, other central and territorial administrative authorities were assigned: • to adopt internal rules of information, consultation and participation in the process of development and adoption of decisions; • to appoint coordinators of the public consultation process within the decision making process and to make this information public accordingly; • to make changes and additions to the organizational and operational regulations under the provisions on decision making transparency. Additionally, the regulatory authorities and local public authorities are recommended to develop and approve their own internal rules for organising the procedures to ensure transparency in the development and adoption of decisions. State Chancellery is to monitor the compliance with the Law on transparency in the decision making and to screen the monitoring results in annual report on the implementation of the central public administration reform.

Decision on monitoring the import of commercial transactions and the value chain in internal trade. The document is approved in order to “balance the trading price of goods on domestic market” and contains provisions on: • the mechanism for monitoring the trade import transactions and the value chain in internal trade; • the list of imported goods subjected to monitoring; • composition of the Monitoring Committee. That decision does not extend over the value assessment of the commercial transactions that is performed within the customs. The list of goods includes: meat, fish, dairy products, vegetables, fruits, cereal products, juices etc.

Decision on closing the liquidation procedure of some state enterprises. This decision closes the liquidation procedure of the state enterprises “Newspaper Moldova Suverana” and “Newspaper Nezavisimaya Moldova”, and the State Chancellery is to perform the founder’s functions of the state enterprises “Newspaper Moldova Suverana” and “Newspaper Nezavisimaya Moldova”, to change and approve the organisational and operations acts for these enterprises, as well as to ensure the registration of these acts. Also, a set of measures is to be undertaken to ensure the efficient administration of the assets under the management of those enterprises, as well as the observance of their intellectual property rights.

Decisions on allocating funds:

3 million lei are allocated to the State Enterprise “Palace of the Republic” in order to cover the expenses related to utilities, building operation and state taxes;
500,000 lei are allocated to the Cancer Institute in order to repair the pediatric oncology section;
About 400,000 lei are allocated to the State Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture for several protocol actions.

The Prime Minister has issued several orders on:

creation of the Working Group to assess the risks and threats to national security, to be included into a list of risks and threats to national security;
creation of the Working Group to draft the National Security Strategy, a document to be drafted by March 25, 2010;
holding efficiently the presentations of the Republic of Moldova within the Consultative Group meeting of donors;
coordination of the activities concerning the implementation of the central public administration reform and monitoring the implementation of the Fiduciary Fund established for that purpose.

Meetings. Decisions

Meeting with rectors

The agenda of the meeting called by Prime Minister included issues regarding the compliance of the higher education with the Bologna Process, the current problems in the area, including: funding, tuition fees, accommodation fees in student hostels, student scholarships, lectors’ salaries, university endowment, training specialists in higher education and increasing their access to the labour market. The Prime Minister has chosen to grant genuine university autonomy to educational institutions, saying that Government will continue to support the educational system. A particular issue raised in discussion was that of salaries in education and proposals were made to amend the Law on wages in the budgetary sector in order to improve the salary conditions in education.

Visa liberalization

The Prime Minister chaired a meeting regarding the readiness of the state institutions for the visa liberalization dialogue with the European Commission Mission members. The meeting tackled the experience of Balkan countries, which succeeded to achieve visa liberalization in short time, after the implementation of technical conditions required by the European Commission. In this context, the Prime Minister demanded all institutions upon which depends the initiation of the visa liberalization dialogue with the European Commission to show maximum responsibility and requested for the assessment of the legal framework, its adjustment in compliance with European standards. The importance of providing the biometric passports to citizens of Moldova, as a mandatory requirement for free movement in Europe was underlined.

Meeting with trade unions and employers organisations

The meeting was convened in the Government and tackled such issues as: social compensations provided by Moldovan Government in the cold season, the shadow economy and its negative impact on state development. A particular issue was that of distributing the allocation of health resort treatment vouchers which, starting with this year, are distributed by the National Social Insurance House that is equipped with a powerful information system. The trade union representatives mentioned that removing the unions from distribution of treatment vouchers is not a good thing, since a constructive dialogue is needed in this area. During this meeting the Prime Minister said that the difficult current situation of Moldova is also due to the shadow economy, which is about paying the wages in envelope, and due to tax evasion the Government was forced to interfere with about 2 billion lei to cover the social payments.

The Prime Minister participated in a number of public events:

General Assembly of the National Farmers Federation of Moldova (NFFM)
Enlarged Board meeting of the Ministry of Finance;
Meeting of the Working Group of the State Commission for regulating the entrepreneurial activity etc.

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