Moldovan Civil Aviation Authority to switch to Transport Ministry's subordination

16:54 | 01.07.2016 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 1 July /MOLDPRES/ - The Civil Aviation Authority (AAC) will switch from subordination of the government to the one of the Transports and Roads Infrastructure Ministry (MTID), under a draft on amendment and completion of the law on civil aviation, adopted by parliament in the second reading today.

According to a legislative act from 2013, the Civil Aviation Authority was switched to the cabinet’s subordination.

Transports and Roads Infrastructure Minister Anterior Iurie Chirinciuc has earlier said that “the experience of the last two tears has proved impossibility to establish and carry out constructive relations between the two institutions as separate entities, in order to implement the Agreement on Common Aviation Area and to use the entire capacity of the technical assistance project financed by the European Commission.”

An informative note attached to the draft reads that the “existence of the Civil Aviation Authority independently from the ministry obviously runs counter the provisions of the law on the specialty central public administration, as well as the commitments taken before the European Union.”

Moldova is to transpose and enforce over 70 normative acts in the civil aviation sector, according to the Agreement on Common Aviation Area with EU. In this respect, the draft’s authors said that “the most judicious option is concentration and division of the present institutional capacities in the concerned field.”

At the same time, the Civil Aviation Authority has earlier informed that ‘it managed to work out drafts on transposition of 57 European regulations/directives, of which about 30 ones were sent to MTID to be submitted to government for approval.”Yet, the lack of sufficiently educated specialists in the air transport sector at the competent ministry, found out also in a report by EU’s Technical Assistance Project, probably “hindered the promotion by MTID of all drafts submitted by AAC for the transposition of EU’s legislation.”

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor L. Alcaza)

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