Moldoivan cabinet arbogates 169 customs orders for debureaucratization, support of enterprises

Chisinau, 13 April /MOLDPRES/ - The cabinet of ministers today ruled to abrogate 169 orders with major impact on the work of enterprises, issued by the Customs Service in 2000-2016, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

The revision of normative acts regulating the entrepreneurial activity, issued by the Customs Service, was carried out urgently, at a request by Prime Minister Pavel Filip.   

Thus, a working group was set up, with the participation of representatives of the Economics Ministry, Justice Ministry, Finance Ministry, Customs Service, Secretariat of the Regulatory Impact Assessment, Programme USAID BRITE (Business Regulatory, Investment, and Trade Environment Program), International Finance Corporation, which analysed all normative acts issued by the Customs Service during 2000-2016. As a result, 439 orders with impact on entrepreneurs with foreign economic activity have been identified.   

After each order had been analysed through the light of the legal framework, 169 customs orders were put forward for abrogation. The list contains orders which lost their validity, normative acts which became null due to the recently approved new normative provisions, normative acts which clearly run counter the normative provisions of highest legal force. Another 52 acts are to be revised within the working group in the next three months.  

Prime Minister Pavel Filip welcomed this decision. “If there is will, we prove results as well. Once the reforms carried out, the Customs Service becomes a transparent and more efficient partner of the business environment,” the prime minister stressed.  

Thus, while earlier, under the Customs Service’s order No 458-O from 24 December 2010, the enterprise could carry out the customs clearance procedure only at the customs office of its territory, and needed an authorisation, beforehand issued by the Service, to switch to other customs offices, after the cancellation of this act, the customs clearance will be allowed at any customs body to which the enterprise is to appeal.

Another example is the Order No 177-O from 4 October 2004 on the formation of the register of enterprises in the foreign trade field. The order obliged any economic agent, set to carry out foreign commercial activity, to register with the Customs Service, submit an application, a copy of the registration certificate, authenticated copy of the certificate on assigning the statistic code. Once the order abrogated, this obligation is cancelled. The Customs Service is to get the needed information about the enterprise from the competent bodies, based on the information system of data exchange.  

The move is part of the government’s agenda of reforms on improving the investment climate and backing the business environment. 
 

(Editor L. Alcaza)