Activity of the Government on March 16 – April 1, 2011

Events of major importance

Prime Minister visits the ministries

The Prime Minister has initiated a number of visits to the ministries in which they analyze the results of activities, implemented reforms and implementation of measures stipulated in the Governmental Programme. The first visits were made to:

Ministry of Health
Ministry of Youth and Sports

Withdrawal of anti-discrimination law

The government has decided to withdraw from Parliament the draft law against discrimination, submitted in late February to the Parliament and which did not even start to be debated by MPs. The Government (Ministry of Justice) explains the draft was withdrawn because the civil society representatives have presented conflicting views on the text, the media debates were initiated and because discrimination issue is a sensitive one. The Executive plans to accomplish “further consideration of the draft law, according to the good practices in this field.”

ADEPT Note: The adoption of antidiscrimination legislation and implementation of some measures in this area are the priorities set in the Action Plan on visa liberalization with the EU, and its rejection would be able to have negative repercussions for assessing progress in implementing this Plan.

Appointments. Dismissals

Vasile Grama was dismissed from the office of Director General of the Cadastre and Land Agency;
Anatolie Ghilaş, Member of Parliament (PDM) is appointed as Director General of the Cadastre and Land Agency;
Constantin Sula was dismissed from the position of Deputy Director of the Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption, based on his resignation motion;
Gheorghe Susarenco was dismissed from the position of Deputy Minister of Justice.

Decisions

The decision to approve the methodology of developing the strategic development programs of the central public administration authorities. Authorities of central public administration are going to create planning groups responsible for drafting strategic development programs of the Authority and by the end of 2011 they shall develop, in accordance with the Methodology, their own strategic development programs for the years 2012–2014, which shall be considered at the board of respective authority and approved by its leader. State Chancellery will coordinate the preparation process of the strategic development programs for the years 2012–2014 by the central public administration authorities, assuring a high quality level of those documents and the observance of deadlines set and will develop an action plan for the year 2011, setting the terms for organizing the necessary training events and developing stage by stage the strategic development programs, will provide the necessary methodological support to central authorities.

Decision on changing the conditions for remunerating the heads of state enterprises, with state major capital and monopolies that work on basis of regulated tariffs and prices. It was decided to set the office salaries for heads of these units within a range of 4–8 multiplicity coefficient in a multiple quantum of the minimum guaranteed quantum of the salary in the real sector; to limit the head’s office salary to the salary of the leaders of ministries; to set the bonus for high efficiency and labor intensity of up to 50% of the office salary only for the heads of those units that work with profit; to set that bonuses shall be paid to the leaders only based on regulations approved by the founder or by the border of joint stock company; to pay incentive payments and single bonuses only with the consent and decision of the founder of the state enterprise or the joint stock company board.

Decision on approving the draft law on Primary Ethics Commission. It proposes to approve the regulation of the Commission and its structure, as well as the staff limit composed by 26 units. The Primary Ethics Commission aims to implement the policy on conflict of interest and declaration of income and property of officials, judges, prosecutors and civil servants.

Decision on celebrating the 20th anniversary since the proclamation of Moldova’s independence. It established the State Commission for organizing the relevant events and approved the National Action Plan devoted to the celebration of 20 years since the independence of Moldova.

Decisions on allocating funds:

State Chancellery is allocated from the reserve fund of Government 765,055 lei to cover the expenses for the official visit of Mr Joseph Biden, U.S. Vice-President;
local authorities are allocated with funds in amount of 23,021,100 lei in order to provide single allowance for the construction of an individual house or a cooperative house, or for purchasing of housing, or restoring old houses for some categories of citizens who have obtained letters of guarantee to receive soft loans during the years 2005–2008, but did not get those credits;
Government of Japan is allocated as humanitarian aid with USD equivalent of 1 million MDL.

Orders

Ministry of Interior was tasked to inform the Government about the way of issuing and using special driver licenses;
Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Ministry of Education and other relevant bodies shall develop and report on action taken concerning the events of April 7, 2009;
Ministry of Economy was requested to present an analysis prices issue;
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will present a draft normative act regulating the way of setting and approvi9ng the taxes for works and services provided for processing the identity documents.

Meetings. Decisions

Situation in agriculture

Prime Minister convened a meeting with representatives of several agricultural associations, including: Republican Union of Agricultural Producers “UniAgroProtect”, Union of Wine Producers and Exporters, Association of Fruit Growers, AGROINFORM Federation, National Farmers Federation of Moldova. The information presented during the meeting was about the situation in agriculture and about immediate priorities. Representatives of farmers’ associations said that the permanent dialogue with the Government, the actions aimed at unlocking the accounts of economic entities in this industry, liberalization of export and returning to subsidies for phytosanitary products were beneficial for farmers. They noted the need for continuing the revival of agriculture, highlighting the importance of state subsidies for the perspective areas.

Joint Decentralization Commission

Prime Minister chaired the meeting of the Commission, which considered the draft National Decentralization Strategy, with several areas of intervention: decentralization of services and competences, financial decentralization, patrimonial decentralization, local development, administrative capacity, institutional capacity, democracy, ethics, human rights and gender equality. Draft Strategy is to be subject to debate in public consultations with representatives of local authorities and civil society. In this context, the Prime Minister mentioned that the consultation process should involve all local authorities to ensure a transparent, participatory process through dialogue and communication with all stakeholders. The Joint Commission’s working plan for 2011 was approved at the meeting.

Meeting of the National Committee on Oversight over the Police Reform

The Committee meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Vlad Filat. At the meeting he stated that this reform is a vital for Moldovan citizens, in order to return the state institutions back to the citizens. Filat mentioned that Ministry of Interior has so far been a highly politicized institution and this factor should be excluded, and even if there will be obstacles the reforms will be accomplished to the end.

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