Activity of the Government on July 16–31, 2011

Acts of major importance

Decision concerning measures to prepare the domestic economy and social sector for autumn-winter 2011–2012

In accordance with the approved decision, ministries and other central administrative authorities will do the following:

Set up commissions to organise, monitor and control preparations for the heating season;
Introduce a strict control on consumption of energy resources;
Organise the uninterrupted energy supply to facilities of vital importance;
Oblige subordinated budgetary institutions to strictly control the respect for funds foreseen in own budgets for consumption of energy resources;
Take necessary measures to pay off debts of budgetary and subordinated institutions for energy resources and public services and honour current payments on time;
Calculate and approve quantitative limits for consumption of energy resources and communal services, distributed on months, control execution of consumption limits by subordinated institutions.

The document includes recommendations for local and regional public administration authorities and introduces obligations for heads of budgetary institutions, ministries and competent agencies.

Dismissals

Gheorghe Trocin was relieved from the office of deputy minister of finance, as he was nominated member of the Chamber of Auditors;
Nicolae Concescu was relieved from the office of head of the Soroca territorial office of the State Chancellery, representative of the Government in the area, upon his demand.

Decisions

Decision concerning the limits of staff units and staff-related expenses in budgetary sector for central and local public administration authorities for 2011. The Government set the limits of staff units and staff-related expenses from all funding sources for central public administration authorities (including Parliament and President of Moldova) and local public administration authorities. Local public administration authorities are recommended to set limits of staff units and staff-related expenses for 2011 for subordinated institutions, in accordance with the limits foreseen for administrative territorial units. Central public administration authorities are due within one month to work out a normative framework on structure and limited number, so that to adjust it to the new decision, report the staff from decentralised public services in areas, including auxiliary staff of public authorities.

Decision concerning some measures relating to optimisation of management and privatisation of public property. The Government took notice of the report on management and privatisation of public property in 2010 and warned ministries and other central administrative authorities in connection with inefficient management of state property. As well, it approved an action plan aimed to improve the management and privatisation of public facilities and empowered the Ministry of Economy to coordinate the implementation of this plan and instructed it to report actions every half-year.

Decision approving the regulation concerning the delivery of services of the telecommunication system of local public administration. The regulation establishes general conditions for providing services of telecommunication system of public administration authorities, sets necessary funds and technical-material sources, as well as security norms. Basic services of the system include protected interdepartmental information exchanges for public authorities and services providing connection and access to state information systems and resources called Governmental Intranet; services providing public authorities with access to global Internet resources; e-mail services of public administration authorities.

Decision concerning the exhibition of the national relict “Flag of Stefan the Great”. The Government allocated about 300,000 lei from the reserve fund for the temporary importation of the national relict “Flag of Stefan the Great” from Romania to Moldova and its exhibition at the National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova during August 24 — September 12, 2011. The Interior Ministry and Ministry of Culture will ensure the security and integrity of the relict, in line with the contract on lending for temporary exhibitions signed between the Romanian National Museum of History and the Moldovan National Museum of Archaeology and History.

Sittings. Decisions

National Strategic Planning Committee

Prime minister chaired a sitting of the committee, which considered strategic priorities relating to reform actions to be taken by October, with approved measures aiming to enhance productivity and competitiveness, as well as to improve business environment and attract new investments. Prime minister instructed institutions involved in negotiations to prove maximum responsibility for an accurate fulfilment of assumed commitments, with the purpose to encourage the disbursing of the 20-million-dollar budgetary assistance provided by the World Bank to Moldova, noting that this amount is already foreseen in the State Budget. Also, the committee considered the list of priority projects to be financed by the E-Moldova Fund, selecting five projects worth 12.4 million lei to start this year with the financial support of the World Bank in the framework of the Governance e-Transformation Programme.

National commission on liquidation of 2010 flood consequences

A sitting heard reports on stage of works conducted to build homes for victims of the summer 2010 floods. According to data provided by the Ministry for Regional Development and Construction, 706 homes should be built for victims of natural disasters and 567 of them are now finished, including 514 in Cotul Morii, 34 in Nemteni and 19 in Obileni villages. Victims of natural disasters already live in 433 houses. As well, the sitting heard problems related to construction of engineering infrastructure and social-cultural facilities in the area concerned. Prime minister was angry with the work of institutions in charge, noting that the deadline for building works is not respected and urging them to speed up necessary procedures, so that to finish the homes by late August. Premier Vlad Filat instructed local public authorities to take all actions needed to provide children with access to education, by organising their transportation to neighbouring education institutions.

Meeting with CNP members

Prime minister convoked the National Council for Participation (CNP) in an ad-hoc sitting to discuss the establishment of a National Reform Committee sought by civil society representatives during consultations with the premier. The National Reform Committee will be made of whole cabinet of ministers, representatives of civil society, employers, trade unions, academia, and businessmen. Vlad Filat believes that such a committee is necessary to ensure a multidimensional participation of society, enhance transparency and raise recommendations regarding reform priorities, as well as to find best ways to implement reforms. Participants expressed diverse opinions, inclusively about inopportunity to set up one more supra-governmental body which efficiency and competence are hard to forecast and assess.

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