Number of permissive acts, licences might be diminished by 25 per cent in Moldova

Chisinau, 12 March /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip, at the today’s cabinet meeting, informed about the signing, on the last days, of two government instructions providing for the removal of the present constraints on the business environment, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

“First of all, it is about the reduction of the number of permissive acts for the entrepreneurial activity,” the prime minister said. Filip noted that, according to a survey by the Economics Ministry and World Bank, presently there are 416 permissive acts in all, and 90 per cent of them do not meet at least one of the principles of good regulation, stipulated in the law on regulation of the entrepreneurial activity through authorisation.    

The goal of these steps is to decrease the number of permissive acts by 25 per cent. At the same time, the remaining acts will be brought in line with the law, so that both the authorities and entrepreneurs perfectly understand the need of the permissive act, the conditions, procedures and costs for its issuance, thus avoiding abuses.    

In parallel with this optimization, the cabinet will initiate the implementation of a single office for permissive acts, for which an information system, based on the platform provided by the Electronic Governance Centre, will be necessary.   

The second instruction deals with the revision of the orders by the Customs Service with impact on the work of enterprises, which relate to the procedures, conditions and restrictions imposed to enterprises within customs controls. For instance, there are orders by the Customs Service, issued without consulting the business environment, without analysis of impact on the business environment, and some of them even without being published and recorded in the Register of departmental acts. The Economics Ministry, Finance Ministry, Justice Ministry are to analyze these orders in a month time and bring them in line with the legislation, so that there are clear cut and transparent rules, for the benefit of enterprises.      

(Editor L. Alcaza)