Moldovan landowners to be obliged to take measures to combat weeds

Chisinau, 23 November /MOLDPRES/ - Landowners will be obliged to undertake measures to combat and prevent the spread of weeds, according to amendments made to the Land Code and the Contravention Code, passed by the parliament in the final reading today.   

The legislative initiative sees sanctions for failure to fulfill the obligation to combat and prevent the spread of weeds. Fines worth up to 1,500 lei are envisaged for private people and of 6,000 lei at the most for legal entities. The fines will be imposed by the Inspectorate for Environmental Protection.The regulations also establish the competences for the government to work out measures of protecting lands, including combating and preventing the spread of weeds. Also, the district and municipal councils, as well as the village and town ones will exercise control over the use and protection of lands.   

The amendments proposed are aimed at diminishing the negative effects on residents’ health, triggered by more weeds, including ambrosia. The latter is a plant growing on the edge of roads, uncultivated lands, in gardens, in cereals and sunflower crops. The pollen of this plant, spread by the wind, triggers pollinosis and asthma and is one of the factors worsening the bronchial asthma in the end of summer and beginning of autumn. The presence of ambrosia in agricultural crops causes significant losses of harvest.