Trade operations at border are optimizing, residents to enjoy safe products, Moldovan PM says

Chisinau, 12 May /MOLDPRES/- Prime Minister Pavel Filip today participated in the inauguration of a veterinary and phyto-sanitary control post at the Tudora border checkpoint, south-eastern Stefan Voda district, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

At the event, the prime minister underlined the government’s effort to improve the business environment by diminishing the administrative pressure, simplifying customs procedures, reducing the number of permissive acts by 25 per cent, decreasing the number of control bodies - actions that will save time and costs of operations made by entrepreneurs.

“I want to assure you that improvement of business conditions is the among the government's first priorities. Therefore, modernization of this customs checkpoint by optimizing the veterinary and phyto-sanitary control procedures according to the European requirements will allow both facilitation of trade operations at the country’s border and providing Moldovan people with healthy and safe agri-food products”, he said.

Also, the prime minister visited the laboratories, deposits and fridges endowed with modern equipment guaranteeing the safety and harmlessness of agri-food goods.

“The government will take every effort to maintain an efficient dialogue between the business environment, state, customs and National Food Safety Agency, in order to guarantee Moldova’s food security,” Filip said.

The World Bank provided a 12.8-million-lei-worth loan to build and restore the veterinary and phyto-sanitary control post at the Tudora border checkpoint. According to the national action plan on implementing the EU-Moldova Association Agreement, another three posts are to be inaugurated at Criva, Leuseni and Giurgiulesti by late 2016.

Pavel Filip also visited a compound for producing and packing fruits for export from Olanesti settlement. The PM took knowledge of the latest technologies applied by producers in fruit growing.

The company has about 130 hectares of apple, cherries, plums, peaches and nectarines hyper-intensive orchards, equipped with hail netting and drip irrigation. The fruit storage warehouse has a capacity of 1,300 tons, and the sorting and pre-packing line can process six tons of fruits per hour. The enterprise also has its own orchards.

(Editor A. Raileanu)