Moldovan PM meets business environment representatives

Chisinau, 25 May /MOLDPRES/- Prime Minister Pavel Filip met representatives of the business environment, members of the American Chamber of Commerce from Moldova, European Business Association and Foreign Investors Association, on 24 May, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

The talks were focused on the  government's reforms agenda in terms of improving the investment climate and supporting the business environment. In the context, Filip referred to the reforms carried out by the government for short term in the financial and banking, justice and anti-corruption sectors,  as well as regulating the entrepreneurial activity.

“This government has much will; it is determined to make reforms; at the same time, the values we are guided by create the needed prerequisites for having transparency in activity and sincere talks with the  society. As for the visions, I want to say that our final goal or country project is that Moldovan citizens live well here at home, in a country built based on the European values. A friendly environment for everybody can be created only in this way”, he said.

The premier referred, in particular, to the measures taken by the government for facilitating the activity of the business environment: setting a moratorium on state control, reducing number of permissive documents, implementing the concept on single desk and reforming the control institutions.

“So far, more legislative amendments have been worked out, meant to create transparency and predictability of state controls. At the same time, starting from 2017, we will reduce the number of institutions with control duties, so that we should have only 10 entities empowered to carry out controls out of 69 ones at present, as well as four national regulators”, he concluded.

The participants in the meeting analyzed possibilities to create an interactive platform of permanent communication on problems and obstacles faced by entrepreneurs, including via the Economic Council under the Prime Minister, made up of representatives of the business environment too.

(Editor L. Alcază)