Moldovan trade chamber, local government of Gagauzia discuss extending cooperation

Chisinau, 29 January /MOLDPRES/ - Participants in an yearly meeting of the enterprises members of the Gagauzian branch of the Moldovan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and representatives of the local government discussed the results of the work of CCI branch from Gagauzia, cooperation with the autonomy’s administration to develop the business environment in this region and opportunities of doing business at a meeting on 28 January, the CCI press service has reported.   

The head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Valeriu Lazar, unveiled CCI’s priorities for 2016, stressing that the Chamber was set to back, by using the most modern and innovative instruments, the economic operators in the process of internationalization and enhancing the competitiveness on the domestic market, in the context of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with EU, as well as of other changes in the geography of exports and tendencies in the regional and global economy.     

Among the CCI’s priorities for this year, there are increasing competitiveness, developing the public-private dialogue to improve the business regulations, so that economic operators fully benefit from financial means provided by development partners within diverse programmes, which amount to tens of millions of euros annually.

For his part, the first deputy governor of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia (UTA Gagauz-Yeri), Vadim Ceban, highlighted the good cooperation with the Chamber of Trade and Industry both in organising events dedicated to the business community and in consulting diverse initiatives by the autonomy’s administration. In this respect, Ceban presented a programme on support of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), worked out by the Gagauzian executive committee. He stressed that the document was targeting a qualitative change of the structure of production and export in the region – from farming products with low value added to industrial goods with innovation component and high value added.  

Also, Vadim Ceban voiced intention to launch, in partnership with CCI, a single office for elaborating permissive acts regionally and locally.

Participants in the meeting of the CCE members from UTA Gagauz-Yeri also unveiled opportunities of access to financing through the Polish loan, meant for agricultural enterprises, and the World Bank’s Competitiveness Enhancement Project II. The latter projects makes available to exporters a credit line worth 30 million dollars for circulate means and investment activities, as well as a line of grants of three million dollars annually, to contract consultancy services, in order to enhance export competitiveness.   

(Reporter A. Mardare, editor M. Jantovan)