Activity of the Government on April 2–15, 2011

Events of major importance

Resignation of the Minister of Justice

By Governmental decision, Alexandru Tanase is appointed by transfer to the position of the judge in the Constitutional Court for a six year-term. The decision was announced suddenly and surprised the members of the Government and the public opinion, since the Minister of Justice was considered one of the promising politicians of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) and he was in full process of developing and promoting reforms in judiciary and related areas. Prime Minister Filat did not comment in detail the situation, being confined to the assertion that this decision belongs exclusively to Tanase. Initially, Tanase either did not make too many statements, confirming that he wanted himself to go to the Constitutional Court. Later on, Tanase gave several interviews and statements, whereby he hinted that he is not satisfied with how things are going on in the PLDM, the obstacles that have arisen in promoting some reforms and with the diversion from certain values that it previously subscribed for when forming the PLDM.

ADEPT Note: On April 14, 2011 Alexandru Tanase sworn in as the judge of the Constitutional Court, but the governmental reshuffle was not carried out and another person was not appointed as the Minister of Justice, although the Prime Minister had announced previously that he will take this decision in restricted period regarding the proper candidate.

Regulation on setting out and payment of the single social compensation

The document is adopted to enforce the provisions of the Law on single social compensations and stipulated providing single social compensation in the amount of 390 lei to the persons:

who benefited from pensions established under national legislation or from social allowances established under the Law on State social allowances for some categories of citizens, the size of which is up to 900 de lei for at least one month between January and March 2011;
whose right to pension under the national legislation or to social allowances according to the Law on state social allowances for some categories of citizens was established after 31 March 2011, the size of which is up to 900 lei for at least one month during January-March 2011.

Single social compensation will not be granted to individuals who have the citizenship of the Republic of Moldova, but not residing therein, and those who are under the state’s care. According to preliminary calculations, the single compensation will be granted to over 540 thousand people, and to this end 258 million lei were allocated.

Appointments

Several officials have been reappointed / appointed in positions:

Deputy Minister of Health, Gheorghe Ţurcanu
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Andrei Popov
Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Construction, Veaceslav Guţuţui
Deputy Minister of Transportation and Road Infrastructure, Valeriu Ciubuc
Deputy Minister of Environment, Lazar Chirica
Deputy Minister of Education, Tatiana Potinga
Deputy Minister of Labour, Social Protection and Family, Ana Vasilache
Deputy Minister of Information Technology and Communications, Mihaela Iacob
Revenco Roman is appointed as Director general of the Border Guard Service
Tudor Golub is appointed as Head of Orhei Territorial Office of the State Chancellery, representing the Government in the territory
Leonid Bujor is appointed as Senior State Adviser to the Prime Minister for Education and Sports
Constanta Popescu-Mereacre is appointed as the Senior State Adviser to the Prime Minister

Dismissals

Maria Cojocaru-Toma is released from the position of Director of the Medicines Agency;
Andrei Iacovlev is released from the position of Deputy Director of the Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre;
from the position of representative of the Government in the territory were released Alim Afonin, Ion Asalciuc and Octavian Mahu.

Decisions

Decision on establishing the Joint Partnership Council. The Council is established to increase efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of external assistance provided to Moldova by international organizations and donor countries. According to the text, the Council is a forum for high-level dialogue, which has the mission to further improve the efficacy of the process of external assistance provided to Moldova, and stipulates:

mutual accountability for effective external assistance through the exchange of views on the implementation of national development priorities;
harmonization of external assistance provided through programs, projects and budgetary support in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of external assistance;
evaluation of progress achieved in implementing the provisions of the Plan for Implementation of the partnership principles signed between the Government and external development partners.

The decision to approve the draft law on personal data protection. The law is designed to create the legal framework necessary to implement Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and European Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals in regard to the processing of personal data and free circulation of such data. Concept of personal data means any information related to an identified or identifiable individual (subject of personal data). Identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity. The law’s scope does not extend to relations arising from:

processing personal data exclusively for personal and family needs, if this does not violate the personal rights of personal data subjects;
processing personal data attributed to, as established, to information that constitutes state secret.

Decisions for approval of some regulations:

Regulation on organization and operation of the Certification Commission;
Regulation on monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents.

Orders

The leadership of “Moldsilva” Agency was asked to cancel the order whereby 1,300 hectares of forest in Hincesti district were transferred into the property of Nisporeni district without having consulted all stakeholders;
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration is to provide detailed information about the implementation by each ministry of the EU-Moldova Action Plan;
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, jointly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration will verify the information about cessation by on Belarus authorities of issuing certificates for imports of alcoholic products from Moldova.

Meetings. Statements

Ensuring security and public order

Prime Minister Vlad Filat convened the leaders of enforcement bodies, whom he requested information on the investigation of severe crimes recorded lately, as well as about the overall situation. Prime Minister had ordered full mobilization of all the structures responsible for the investigation of these cases and requested active involvement in this process of the institutions in charge with criminal prosecution and investigative functions, but also the institutions responsible for combating organized crime. Vlad Filat also demanded to carry out some preventive measures for crime prophylaxis and prevention.

Visit at the Ministry of Education

The Prime Minister convened an extended meeting at the Ministry of Education, which discussed the reform agenda, the existing problems and solutions that are appropriate. Specific themes were the development of the draft Education Code and development of the long-term Education Strategy, the Concept of Inclusive Education. The meeting also discussed how to organize the baccalaureate examinations. It was agreed to establish an additional office of Deputy Minister of Education, who will have to deal with the management of reforms in this sector and implementation of the e-education objective.

Meeting with participants in the events of April 7, 2009

The Prime Minister attended the meeting with law enforcement officers, young people who participated in the events of April 7, ministers and heads of state institutions that investigate these events. Vlad Filat mentioned that the purpose of this meeting is to develop an open framework for communication between participants in the events in question and representatives of state institutions, but also to present the information about the actions taken by the central administration in order to elucidate the events. Speakers mentioned that the law enforcement institutions are in the process of reformation, and the events of April 2009 and their consequences are taken into account in developing and promoting the reform policies. Other speakers during the meeting were the participants who had suffered from the events, as well as police and civil society representatives. The Prime Minister mentioned that it is necessary to intensify the actions investigating the cases related to events of April 2009, to undertake measures to ensure that citizens won’t be any more victims of abuse and torture.

Government will not act on protesters’ requests

Prime Minister Vlad Filat declared, referring to protests of the car owners with foreign registration numbers, that Government will follow the observance of the law and will not accept unjustified exemptions. According to the Prime Minister, when taking the decision to allow access on the territory of Moldova for cars with foreign registration numbers and older than seven years without paying the financial guarantee to customs it was intended to facilitate access into the country for our citizens working abroad, but such cars had to be in the country just a certain period of time after which to leave it. According to official data, now in Moldova are 3864 cars with registration numbers of the Republic of Bulgaria and 2465 transport units — from the Republic of Lithuania, of which about 650 cars were removed from the databases of those countries. In this context, 20 criminal cases were launched for illegal entry of transport units into Moldova, and other 23 cases are under consideration.

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