Moldovan PM encourages investments in sugar industry

Chisinau, 25 May /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip has had a meeting with representatives of the Sudzucker company, Thomas Kirchberg and Alexander Koss, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.  

The prime minister appreciated the investors’ role in developing the sugar industry from Moldova. Filip referred to steps taken by the government to improve the business environment through direct levers, such as simplification of the regulation framework, control institutions’ reform, ensuring stability and predictability of the national legislation.   

“We not only listen to requests by entrepreneurs, but also implement them. We understand that the political stability and the one of the legal framework have a direct impact on the business environment. Therefore, we have set, starting from the next year, to work out the budgetary and fiscal policy for three years in advance. In this way, investors will have more predictability when planning the business,” Pavel Filip said.  

For his part, Thomas Kirchberg appreciated the government’s effort in terms of improving the framework for doing business. He noted that one of the conditions for ensuring the business development was political stability, existence of clear-cut and predictable long-term rules.

An important subject of the discussion regarded the opportunities for developing irrigation systems in agriculture. The prime minister declared for creating these systems, which are to protect the sugar beet harvest in conditions of drought, ensuring the entire process of sugar’s production, beginning with the harvesting, processing and ending with packaging. At the same time, Pavel Filip stressed that, in the government’s effort of implementing the reforms in the business environment sector, the principal partners were entrepreneurs and the best solutions would be identified together with them.

(Editor L. Alcaza)