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Appointments

The majority of parliamentarians have appointed Valeriu Gurbulea as Prosecutor-General. Opposition lawmakers have indicated certain biased actions taken by the candidate when he ran his former offices (prosecutor, secretary of the Supreme Security Council, first deputy prosecutor-general). Gurbulea denied that certain cases have been filed for political reasons and he assured that he did not participate in persecution of some opponents of the governance. As regards the reformation of the Prosecutor’s Office, Gurbulea said that this institution is generally reformed and only its place in magistracy must be established. The new prosecutor-general said about cases of resonance, in which the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has sentenced Moldova, that the ECHR did not find out abuses in filing cases and it sanctioned Moldova for violation of human rights (detention conditions, degrading treatment), without examination of the essence of the case.

The Parliament has appointed the first members of the Administrative Board of the National Agency for the Protection of Competition^[1]:

• Director-general of the agency Viorica CARARE, chairwoman of the Administrative Board appointed for a 5-year term;
• Deputy director-general of the agency Ion ECHIM, member of the Administrative Board appointed for a 5-year term;
• Deputy director-general of the Agency Eugen GLADII, member of the Administrative Board appointed for a 5-year term.

Although it was included in the agenda and debated for a long period, the draft decision on appointment of some judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (N.Budai, S.Caitaz, E.Zinenco) was not adopted so far. Objections raised by chairman of the legal commission for rules and immunities against skills of some candidates and existence of some ECHR judgments that condemn Moldova inclusively for decisions by one of the candidates challenged controversial discussions. Opposition lawmakers noticed that the parliamentary majority appreciate candidates under political aspect, too, with chairman of the Christian Democratic faction warning that these attempts and attitudes of the majority affect the parliamentary political consensus.

Legal acts

Law on protection of personal data. An independent national centre for the protection of personal data will be created under this law (the executive has initially recommended that ombudsmen exert these functions), and it will take care that the personal information be processed accordingly to the law. The new law regulates the conditions of collection of information, storage, processing and use of personal data and it aims to guarantee the protection of the right of individuals to private life.

Law on prevention of HIV/AIDS infection. The law establishes the legal base of actions taken to prevent the spreading of HIV/AIDS infection by reducing new cases of infection, stopping the exponential growth of epidemic and reducing its impact, ensuring medical and socio-psychological assistance for persons suffering from HIV/AIDS, members of their families, guaranteeing respect for their rights. Some objections have been raised when the draft was debated in the first reading and later, including by civil society, religious groups. Opportune recommendations have been taken into consideration to finalise the law.

Law on modification of the law on civil status acts. By modifying this law, the range of candidates to the post of chief of the civil status service was extended (a long work length in this office (civil status bodies) was earlier needed, but now the law says that the work length in the “public service” is enough.

The draft was tabled by Communist lawmakers, but opposition representatives feared during debates that the amendments follow lobbyist interests in favour of some persons in territorial administration who claim these offices.

Draft law on audit activity. It proposes provisions on organisation of audit activity, rights, obligations and responsibility of the sides involved, required by adjustment of audit activity to international practice and regulations (control on quality of audit works, insurance of activity, keeping registers of bidders, creation of the council for the supervision of audit activity, etc.).

Draft law on limited societies. The document approved in the first reading aims to regulate the mode of constitution, functioning, reorganisation particularities and mode of closing limited societies. Essential provisions envisage the number of founders and minimum registered capital needed to found a limited society (30,000 lei compared with 5,400 lei at present).

Draft law on aeronautic security. It aims to regulate social ties linked to security and protection of passengers, crews, aeronautic personnel, population, airships, installations and services of airports that serve the civil aviation against illicit interventions, in order to ensure aeronautic security by introducing an ensemble of measures aimed at protection of civil aviation against illicit interventions. Opposition lawmakers criticised the activity of the State Administration of Civil Aviation (staff policy, training, deficient financial management, conflicts with operators and foreign administrations). Communist lawmakers also accused SACA of trying to extend the control on areas that do not rest with its competences (security, control, combat of violent acts).

Draft law on national ecological network. The document proposes a legal framework for creation and development of the national ecological network as part of the pan-European ecological network, establishing of a regime of protection and use of functional elements of the national ecological network, competences and obligations of public administration authorities in this field.

Draft law on modification of some legal acts on pharmaceutical activity. Following provisions could be included in the law on pharmaceutical activity and Code of Administrative Contraventions:

• State nomenclature of drugs and classifier of drugs used in various automatic information systems;
• Practicing of pharmaceutical activity on basis of the automatic information system for record of drug circulation;
• Elaboration and implementation of automatic information systems that ensure the introduction of controlled and legally made or imported drugs on pharmaceutical market;
• Obligation of all pharmaceutical enterprises and institutions regardless of their organisational-legal form, form of property and subordination to distribute drugs only with the condition to reflect the circuit in the automatic quantity record information system;
• Sanctioning (a fine between 1,000 and 20,000 lei) of those practicing pharmaceutical activity without the automatic information system for drug circulation record, incompetent or/and wrong use of this automatic system, voluntary changes, non-presentation of reports in due terms, release or/and presence of medications without latent band in stocks.

Parliamentary control. Statements

Questions and interpellations

Deputy minister of economy and commerce has reported the implementation of the law on salary system in budgetary sector to the Parliament. The executive will propose a gradual salary rise in 2007 and about 338 million lei is needed for this purpose. Salaries of various categories will grow by 25–50 percent in late 2007.

Our Moldova Alliance (OMA) Deputy Anatol Onceanu has appealed to the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the Centre for the Struggle Against Economic Crimes and Corruption to control the legality of privatisation of the channels Antena C and Euro TV, “financial capacities of new owners to respect the contractual conditions, origin of finances, legal and financial condition of these persons, their financial guarantors.”

Communist Deputy Elena Bodnarenco has asked the Prosecutor-General’s Office to consider the legality of a meeting held by Dumitru Braghis in the city of Soroca.

OMA Deputy Valeriu Cosarciuc has asked the prime minister to elucidate the aspects related to prices for gasification of households and the price formation methodology.

Social Liberal Deputy Igor Klipii has asked the prime minister to report methodological criteria of calculation of estimates for works financed from public funds, to explain how planners are selected and what control mechanisms the Government is applying. Klipii invoked in this respect statements by Igor Semenovker, chairman of the Building and Territorial Development Agency, regarding violations and embezzlements admitted by functionaries and entrepreneurs.

Deputy Valentia Cusnir has asked the Government to explain concrete measures taken to improve the situation in vine growing and winemaking sector and relieve the crisis. Deputy Cusnir has also asked the Prosecutor-General’s Office to report on investigation of disappearance of Vlad Cubreacov in 2002.

Deputy Zoia Jalba has asked the Government to present legal grounds why the faculty of veterinary medicine was deprived of a block of studies, as the National Institute of Justice was placed in these headquarters.

Christian Democratic Deputy Stefan Secareanu has asked the Government to report on implementation of amendments to the law on rehabilitation of victims of political repressions. According to information invoked by Secareanu, central and local authorities continue to delay the process of restitution of property and compensation of its value.

Statements

Moldova’s speaker has outlined the tasks of parliamentarians in a speech delivered at the beginning of the spring-summer session:

• socio-economic tasks: urgent implementation of the law on salary system in budgetary sector; adoption of legislation on redirection of social indemnities to the neediest groups of society; reformation of the child protection system; new law on privatisation; tax policy for 2008; creation and functioning of the so-called “mega-regulator” of extra-bank financial sector; package of presidential initiatives aimed at liberalisation of economy (enforcement of the law on basic principles of regulation of entrepreneurial activity (Law “Guillotine-2”); creation of a special commission for optimisation of the legal framework on regulation of entrepreneurial activity);
• Fulfilment of recommendations of the Council of Europe: package of laws on judicial reform (law on status and mode of organisation of activity of clerks of law courts, law on Prosecutor’s Office, package of amendments to the Code of Administrative Contraventions); law on political parties; next package of amendments on reformation of local public finances on basis of principle of decentralisation and consolidation of local autonomy; examination of the draft Education Code;
• Continuation of implementation of the Moldova — European Union Action Plan: respect for commitments established in the 2005–09 legislative programme; continuation of cooperation with the People’s Assembly of ATU Gagauzia (adjustment and conformation of local legislation to national framework);
• Consolidation of public-private partnership: inventory of the national legal framework in cooperation with partners from associative sector, identification of donors to launch the project;
• Procedures resulted from an initiative by chief of state and launch of plenary functioning of the anti-corruption survey of legislation;
• Parliamentary control.

The OMA faction has delivered several statements at plenary sittings, notably concerning:

• “Undermining of welfare of people by ruling coalition” (suspension of salary rises for budgetary workers);
• Bad social-economic situation in Moldova;
• “Use of the Supreme Security Council to usurp the Power” (some direct indications by state authorities under SSC decisions);
• Disagreement with higher gas tariffs and prices for citizens.

Social Liberal Deputy Igor Klipii has read some statements on corruption in Moldova and demanded parliamentary hearings and creation of a parliamentary investigative commission to verify embezzlement of public money and stealing of money from population invoked by Igor Semenovker, director of the Building and Territorial Development Agency.

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