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Activity of the President on April 26 – May 9, 2004
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e-journal #30 |
Press liberalisation
On the eve of International Day of the Freedom of Press, President Voronin addressed Parliament, Government and other state institutions with “a message encouraging press liberalisation from legal and economic point of view”. A press release issued by the Presidency reads “the message includes suggestions and propositions on ways of supporting domestic press”. One of the propositions refers to examining possibilities “of making amendments to the Fiscal Code so as to lower local taxes on advertising, as well as VAT on advertising for informative publications”. In addition, President recommended a project to be developed by the Academy of Public Administration that would bolster regional media and would urge local public administration to support media.
President also referred to the onerous state of mass media in his inauguration speech at the National Conference of the League of Professional Journalists held on May 3. While pointing to the numerous deficiencies of the domestic press President advised the journalists to hold “the mirror of the press always clean so that the shortcomings of the power be well reflected in it” thus insinuating that the reflection should not tarnish Republic of Moldova’s image. It is worth mentioning yet another memorable phrase of the President “a good press should be the watchdog of the society, it should be smart and loyal to its citizens, rather than a cur easy to deceive with a piece of «mamaliga» thrown by a political mogul from the country or abroad”.
International conference “BIT+”
As a follow-up to his decree of March 19 on building an information society in the Republic of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin attended International Conference “BIT+” and briefed the participants on his legal initiatives in the field, among others: law on electronic and digital signature; law on e-commerce; amendments to the legal acts exempting IT companies from income tax. Another promise was that a draft law on amending Article 49 of the Fiscal Code on favourable taxation to small business would be submitted for the examination of the Parliament.
President believed it was more important to establish “innovation climate in the country” that was to be fostered via: establishing favourable conditions for better interaction between education, science and entrepreneurship; establishing a preferential innovation climate; determining science intensive activities that bring an added value so as to exempt them from the income tax on a long term; introducing new type of management via uniting the four social ministries into a single human development ministry that would develop a well-coordinated single policy on social, educational and cultural standards.
What is striking is that during the recent restructuring of the Ministry of Environment and Territory Planning into two separate structures a totally different logical was cited, from that for uniting “social ministries”.
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