Moldovan Transports Ministry demands switch of Civil Aviation Authority to its subordination

Chisinau, 12 February /MOLDPRES/ - The Transport and Roads Infrastructure Ministry has presented for public consultation a draft on amendment and completion of the law on civil aviation, which provides for the return of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to the subordination of this ministry.  

The concentration of the present institutional capacities in the field would give an impetus to the enforcement of the Association Agreement with EU, Agreement on Common Aviation Area (ASAC), as well as to the carrying out of the legislative reform in terms of transposition and implementation of more than 70 normative acts from the civil aviation sector, the draft’s authors said.   

Under a legislative act approved in 2013, the Civil Aviation Authority was switched to the government’s subordination. “The experience of the last two years has proved impossibility to set and carry out constructive relations between the Transport and Roads Infrastructure Ministry and the Civil Aviation Authority as separate entities, for a conscientious implementation of ASAC and use of the entire capacity of the technical assistance project financed by the European Commission,” says an informative note to the draft law.  

The draft’s authors also said that “in the situation when CAA is presently subordinated to the government, more substantial difficulties and blockages were found out, which ceased the elaboration and promotion of legislative acts in the field, and dragged the normal development of the civil aviation branch.” Such difficulties were not recorded before 2013, when CAA was subordinated to the Transports Agency, subsequently reorganized into the Transport and Roads Infrastructure Ministry.   

The draft’s authors believe that the “existence of the Civil Aviation Authority independently from the Ministry clearly runs counter the provisions of the law on central public administration on the matter, as well as the commitments taken before the European Union.” The Ministry demands return to the situation before the 2013 year, when CAA was directly subordinated to the Transport and Roads Infrastructure Ministry.   

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor L. Alcaza)