Moldovan PM meets representatives of American Chamber of Commerce

Chisinau, 30 June /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today met representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce in Moldova (AmCham in Moldova). The sides discussed recent reforms promoted by the cabinet, to improve the business environment, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

“We are set to have a sincere and constructive dialogue, to learn the opinion of the business community on government’s initiatives, aimed at improving the business climate and developing a sound competition-oriented environment,” the PM said.    

The prime minister specified that the supreme goal of the government was to ensure the wellbeing of the residents, and this means increase in people’s incomes, which can take place only when there are enough and well-paid jobs. Therefore, the government is concerned about the creation of the best conditions for business development, attracting investments, ensuring their safety.  

“We want to transform Moldova into an attractive destination for investors. We intend to remove the causes of the problems and constraints faced by the business through a complex approach,” Pavel Filip noted.  

Among the steps made to this end, Filip mentioned the reform of state controls, cutting the number of permissive acts, removing customs orders, resuming the work of the Economic Council under the Prime Minister, made up of representatives of the business community as well.  

“The Economic Council is a proper instrument of prompt reception of alerts from the business community and of quick launch of actions needed to remove risks signaled or to minimize the negative consequences,” Pavel Filip said.     

For their part, the representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce thanked for opportunity to meet and openly discuss problems faced by the business and identify solutions to overcome them.

Representatives of the business environment said that, in the last period, the pace of reforms had been boosted and a positive trend was recorded. They congratulated the government for ambition and determination to change things for the better and gave assurances that they were determined to work honestly, to pay taxes to the state and invest in production. At the same time, business representatives signaled a string of problems which must be settled to improve the business environment, among which pressing ahead with the reform of the control bodies, developing the human capital on different dimensions, stability and predictability of the fiscal legislation, optimizing procedures of goods customs clearance, further development of a sound competition environment, capping local taxes, as well as the need of a more efficient cooperation with the public authorities technically and to implement policies.    

The PM gave assurances that the cabinet had the necessary will to carry through the reforms underway and spoke out for an open dialogue with the business environment. “Thank you for the activism and involvement you prove. Just as I have said, we want to increase the number of well-paid jobs, we want Moldova to become one of the key countries for investments in Eastern Europe, and AmCham Moldova to be our partner in this process,” Filip added.   

The American Chamber of Commerce in Moldova was set up in 2009 and includes 109 member companies, from big foreign investors to small companies producing goods and providing services. AmCham said its goal was to promote trade and foreign investments in Moldova, to cooperate with the government and the leaders of the business community, in order to develop an as friendly as possible business environment in Moldova.  

(Editor M. Jantovan)