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Activity of the Government on November 1–14, 2010

Events of major importance

Treaty on the border regime with Romania

Participating in the Danube Summit in Bucharest, Prime Minister of Moldova Vlad Filat signed with Teodor Baconschi, Foreign Minister of Romania, the Treaty between the Republic of Moldova and Romania on the state border regime, cooperation and mutual assistance in border matters. The Treaty defines the legal status of the border, describes the state border line and the way of determining it, defines the field marking of the border, regulates the river navigation regime, the management of border waters, bridges and other communication facilities that cross the state border. According to the statements of Moldovan Prime Minister, the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, has expressed the enthusiasm and appreciation for signing the Treaty.

Appointments. Dismissals

Decisions

Decision on equipping with computers and providing access to Internet for the student hostels. The Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, jointly with the administrations of higher education institutions, the medium specialized and vocational ones were assigned to provide Internet connection to student hostels under the framework of public-private partnership. State Chancellery, together with the Ministry of Finance, through technical assistance projects, as well as from budget allocations, shall identify the necessary financial means to purchase 1,400 computers for equipping a computer hall in all hostels of the institutions of higher education, medium specialized and vocational ones. The decision shall be executed within six months and it concerns about 30 thousand students.

Decision on marking the Science Day. The Cabinet of Ministers decided to record 10th of November for the Science Day, on same day as the International Day of Science. At the same time, it repealed the earlier decision according to which the Science Day had to be celebrated on last Sunday of May.

Decision on approving the 2011 Statistical Work Program. The decision sets the list of works and statistical surveys to be conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics and other institutions responsible for providing the central and local public institutions with economic, social and demographic relevant statistical information that is authentic and internationally comparable.

The decision on restoring direct interconnection of electronic communication networks on both banks of Nistru. According to the decision, the S.E. “State Registration Chamber” shall register the Transnistrian economic companies working in communications and shall issue a business registration certificate to them. Also, the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology shall issue the necessary licenses for this activity. According to presented information, facilities for the registration of Transnistrian economic companies and their interconnection in economic area of telecommunications on the right bank of Nistru will determine the telephone calls between subscribers on both banks to get cheaper, and the quality of services will increase.

Decisions to approve some strategies, plans:

Decisions on allocating funds:

Meetings. Decisions

Social compensations for the 2010 cold season started to be paid

Prime Minister held a briefing where he announced the start of paying compensations for the November and December months of 2010 to the persons from socially vulnerable families and pensioners. Over 521,000 pensioners and over 33,000 vulnerable families will benefit of 260 lei each.

Meeting on equipping the student hostels with computers

The Prime Minister chaired a meeting on the implementation of Governmental decision on equipping the students hostels with computers and connecting them to Internet. The meeting was attended by rectors of higher education institutions, representatives of operators providing Internet services, the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Technology Information and Communications. Connecting student hostels, colleges and vocational schools to Internet and equipping a computer room for each of them is part of the e-Governance project, and representatives of Internet companies have shown their readiness to help implement this project and presented several models of connecting the student hostels to internet. It was decided to set up a joint working group composed of representatives of the companies providing Internet services and of the educational institutions that should develop the principles of cooperation and a regulation setting out the quality parameters for Internet access service. In order to ensure transparency in the selection of operators, as well as for providing quality services and best prices, it was proposed to organize tenders. According to information presented at the meeting, there are 90 student hostels in Moldova belonging to the higher education institutions, 68 hostels belonging to colleges and 117 to vocational schools. Currently, only 45 student hostels have an Internet connection.

Concerns regarding the prices of medicines

At the request of the Prime Minister, director of the Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCECC) communicated that prices were increased by 3–4% just for 15 out of over 6000 items of medicines registered in the country. Also, the Service for approving and registering the manufacturer’ price on drug has registered about 4,000 drug positions at an importing cost by up to 50% lower than it was before the new rules were enforced in November, which would considerably decrease the medicines price, starting with January 2011. According to the CCECC Director, the increase in the medicines price is due to the enforcement sometimes abusive of old rules for registering in customs the manufacturer’s prices. The prime minister proposed to examine the possibility of creating a National Agency that will monitor the market pricing in Moldova for all goods and services and requested a detailed analysis on the functioning of the institutions currently responsible for monitoring the price formation.

A meeting on the situation on the drug market has evaluated actions to reduce drug prices and destroy the mafia schemes, created during the previous governances. The prime minister said that the results are below expectations and declared that these energetic measures have to be taken so that citizens would benefit from quality medicines at real price. According to the Prime Minister, the situation on the drug market has not been monitored effectively enough and requested the policy makers to develop and present an objective analysis of the measures taken and a concrete action plan to settle the situation in this area.

Concerns about the liquidation of flood consequences

Prime Minister chaired the meeting of the National Commission for liquidation of the floods consequences, were the authorities of 1st and 2nd level were requested to expedite the procedure of finalizing the lists of farmers who have suffered from the summer floods, so that farmers could get compensation from the Government. According to the presented information, on the plateau of construction of houses in Nemteni 1300 meters of pipeline were built, and the Commission has decided to allocate 500,000 USD, the equivalent of the Chinese governmental donation, for the construction of water pipes in localities affected by floods. Prime Minister called for the mobilization of all decision makers to honour the commitments to people who have suffered from the floods.

Meeting with farmers

The meeting convened by Prime Minister have reviewed some of the actions following a similar of Prime Minister with farmers on 18 March and the problems that farmers face in the agriculture. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, following the liberalization of trade with food products, the export volume of agricultural and agro-industrial products in the first nine months of this year amounted to 469 million USD, which is 10.2 percent higher compared with the same period of last year. Due to cancellation of some taxes and mandatory procedures in the wine-making and viticulture, exclusion of restrictions on grape exports, the tax and administrative burden for business conduct in the sector got reduced, the competitiveness was increased by reducing production costs, the overall farm incomes in this branch have increased, as related by the representative of the branch ministry. The prime minister mentioned the need to improve the agricultural subsidy system, to subsidize those companies, who work efficiently and achieve performances.

MIA Reform

Ministry of Internal Affairs will be subject to reform, district police commissariats will be renamed the territorial commissariats, the national police will be delimitated from the local one, not the police will be any more responsible for ensuring public order, but the carabineers. The measures are provided by the MIA Reform Strategy that includes a number of objectives, including reforming the legal framework, creation of two new departments, local police reform, MIA demilitarization and restructuring the carabineers. It is also envisaged to modify the concept of assessing the MIA activity, which won’t be any more based on statistics, but based on public opinion. However, the reform will start with the entry into force of a new law on police and law on the carabineer troops.

October 1–31, 2010 November 15–30, 2010