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Appointments. Immunities

• A sitting of the commission for the national security, defence and public order has decided to appoint Deputy Speaker Iurie Rosca to head a subcommission in charge with supervision of activity of the Information and Security Service (SIS). The subcommission, created in response to one of conditions that the Christian Democratic People’s Party (PPCD) has imposed in exchange for the election of Vladimir Voronin as chief of state, also includes Deputy Speaker Maria Postoico and lawmakers representing all parliamentary factions.
• Lawmakers representing the majority faction of the Moldovan Party of Communists (PCRM) could not give green light to a demand of the prosecutor-general seeking the withdrawal of immunity from their party fellow Ivan Gutu because the other parliamentary factions refused to participate in the voting. Only 51 out of 56 PCRM lawmakers approved this demand, while the legislation says that the immunity can be withdrawn with the secret vote of the majority of elected parliamentarians. Under a ruling of the Constitutional Court, this majority consists of at least 52 lawmakers in Moldova. Ivan Gutu pleaded innocent before the secret voting and described the actions of the prosecutor’s office as late and contradictory to legislation in effect. The procedure of withdrawal of immunity started after opposition representatives have sought information regarding the perspective to examine this appeal of prosecutor-general submitted last summer, as PCRM lawmakers gave green light to demands on withdrawal of immunity from three parliamentarians representing the Our Moldova Alliance opposition faction and accepted the delivery of penal causes filed against these persons to the court.

Legislative documents

Law for the modification of legislative documents on entry and exit from Moldova. Under the law, foreign citizens and stateless persons who enter Moldova for maximum 90 days will be recorded through their inclusion in the state population register while crossing the border.

Law on the Red Book of Moldova. It will regulate social relations on protection, use and restoration of species of rare or disappearing plants and animals included in the Red Book, in a move to prevent the disappearance of such species and to ensure the conservation of their genetic fund.

Law for the rectification of the 2005 state budget. This legislative document approved a rise of revenues by 469 million lei and distributed expenditures of over 275 million lei. The budgetary surplus will be used to finance new laws on salaries in budgetary system.

Law on mandatory health insurance funds. The price of an insurance policy will grow up to 816 lei, while employees and employers will pay by 2 percent of salary every month. The law obliges the Government to introduce an automatic information system in public medical-sanitary institutions. This measure will strengthen the record and will relieve doctors from issuing many documents for record of patients and provided health services.

Law for the modification and completion of the law on protection of competition. The law establishes new regulations on activity of the national agency for the protection of competition, status, rights and competences of this public institution.

Law for the modification of the law on Chamber of Auditors. The law introduces new regulations on status of chamber members, stop of their mandate and institutes the possibility to conduct inspections at the demand of any parliamentary faction.

Law for the modification of the Election Code. The law establishes the possibility to introduce maximum five alternate candidates in the lists of candidates for elections in local councils, compared with two bidders stipulated by the Election Code.

Law on the adhesion of the Republic of Moldova to the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The protocol stipulates the recognition by signatory parties of competence of the committee for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women to receive, analyze and formulate recommendations to member states on basis of communications, including secret, transmitted by persons or groups or persons who consider that their rights established by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women have been violated.

Law for the amendment of the law on making and circulation of ethyl alcohol and alcohol production. The law allows the sale of ethyl alcohol and alcohol production confiscated by inspection bodies that fit the necessary standards to businesses holding licences in the area, as raw material.

Parliamentary control

• The first sitting of the parliamentary subcommission for supervision of SIS activity outlined the need to improve the legislative framework that regulates the status of SIS officers and the procedure of cooperation of this service with parliamentary structures in charge with inspection in the area. The subcommission decided that SIS “focus on consequences of the Transnistrian conflict, which affects the political and economic situation, including the energy condition of the Republic of Moldova.” The subcommission members will attend one of next SIS sittings, will visit the headquarters and territorial subdivisions of SIS, in order to study the situation regarding human resources, technical endowment, state of headquarters, finances needed to ensure the national security.
• The commission for foreign policy and European integration has heard the Interior Ministry regarding contribution to the implementation of the Republic of Moldova-European Union Action Plan. The ministerial report focussed on development of normative base, but lawmakers said that this is not enough. Parliamentarians invoked a number of shortcomings in activity of police bodies, including:
  • the high crime rate in the country;
  • administrative measures aimed to reduce the number of offences;
  • the use of torture and inhuman treatments by police;
  • insufficient measures against trafficking in persons;
  • corruption in the system and insufficient training of staffs.
  
  To note that the 1990 law on police and most of related orders are old and a new law based on modern principles of activity of security and public order services is needed. Also, surveys indicated one of the highest corruption rates in the police and this state of things continues.
• The commission for human rights, with the invitation of civil society representatives, has heard reports of governmental authorities regarding the implementation of the action plan on human rights for 2004–2008. The commission members described the actions of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Information Development, Justice Ministry, public broadcasting company TeleRadio-Moldova, and the Supreme Court of Justice as insufficient. Parliamentarians described the reports as superficial, without a real coverage of the state of things. Officials of the heard institutions motivated the shortcomings through short financing of state structures, so that it cannot cover all the measures stipulated by the action plan on human rights.
• Lawmakers heard a report on activity of the Labour Inspection in 11 months within the hour of the Government. According to the report, the inspection conducted 5,700 controls in 11 months of 2005 and registered more than 56,000 violations, while the most frequent breaches are: the failure to pay the salary in the established size; the use of labour force without an individual labour contract or its inappropriate issuing; the failure to issue labour cards; the violation of time of work or rest; the failure to pay indemnities for over-programme work; the insufficient organisational measures in the labour protection area (lack of medical examinations, lack of normal conditions, individual protection equipment, use of uncontrolled technical mechanisms, etc.). In 2005, the inspection has already registered 113 accidents at work. Seventy-five of them were grave, 38 persons died (including two minors), while 84 persons were injured. Labour inspectors applied sanctions of over 400,000 lei. Lawmakers criticized the activity of the Labour Inspection, especially for execution indiscipline and lack of promptness of employees, who do not take effective measures, in order to obstruct the reduction of income tax on payment source and hiding of real salaries. Also, they indicated the lack of cooperation between Labour Inspection and fiscal services and regional social protection bodies.
• Parliamentarians heard a report on the implementation of the Millennium Development Objectives (MDO) presented by UNDP-Moldova Mission head Bruno Pouezat and the director of the Institute of Public Policies (IPP), Arcadie Barbarosie. The U.N. representative said that the objectives established by Government till 2015 can be fulfilled, but they are very ambitious. Pouezat recommended legislators to monitor the implementation of objectives within MDO, in particular, to monitor the use of public money and money coming from outside of the country. The IPP director said that most of objectives stipulated by the national report MDO for Moldova will not be fulfilled, if the present development paces continue, though a clear conclusion can be made later, after a certain period of implementation.

Interpellations

• Deputy Speaker Iurie Rosca has solicited the prime minister to report on the present organisational-legal form of newspapers Moldova Suverana and Nezavisimaya Moldova to the parliament, after the Government has withdrawn its quality of founder of these publications. Also, Rosca demanded the premier to confirm or to deny the speculations that these papers are part of a future holding along with a TV channel, several radio channels and other publications.
• Democratic lawmaker Vladimir Filat has asked the Economics and Trade Ministry to report on measures related to the forthcoming entry of Romania in the European Union and imminent negative consequences of abrogation of the free exchange agreement between the Republic of Moldova and Romania under these conditions.

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