Moldovan PM says state must create attractive business environment

17:51 | 15.04.2016 Category: Official

Chisinau, 15 April /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip visited the stock company CAAN during a working visit to the central Straseni town. The company is the manager of the Industrial Park, in the neighbourhood of which there is the subzone No 4 of the Balti-based Free Economic Zone (FEZ),the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

The prime minister visited the restored areas, the construction site of the engineering college and took knowledge of a project on extension of the CAAN Industrial Park. The enterprise’s management informed the prime minister about the investment projects from the industrial field, processing of agricultural products and on the cooperation with one of the most important producers from the automotive industry.

The park’s leadership noted that, should they manage to implement the set projects, the residents working there might increase five-fold the number of jobs available at present.

Pavel Filip stressed that the state must create an attractive business environment. “I know exactly what we have to do and which the next steps are. We have to settle two big problems: corruption and bureaucracy. For this, we need stability and to carry through the reforms underway,” Filip said.

The prime minister also said that a string of measures had been already undertaken to improve the business environment: a moratorium on state controls has been established, 169 order were removed in the Customs Service, which allowed interpretations or were leaving room for corruption, access to sources from the Polish preferential loan was de-blocked; there are also other actions of backing entrepreneurs.

Pavel Filip gave assurances that the government would support the attraction of investment projects, especially those creating jobs. The PM invited representatives of the industrial park to be proactive and come up with initiatives on improving the framework of regulation of the entrepreneurial activity.

Presently, 38 enterprises work on the area of CAAN Industrial Park, within which over 600 persons are employed.

(Editor L. Alcaza)

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