Moldovan Official Journal publishes government's decision on taking responsibility for measures to back state of emergency

Chisinau, 2 April /MOLDPRES/ - The Moldovan government has taken responsibility on a draft law concerning the establishment of measures to back the citizens and the entrepreneurial activity on the state of emergency period. The decision was published in the today’s issue of the Official Journal (Monitorul Oficial).    

The draft provides for measures to support more categories of citizens, as well as the entrepreneurial activity for attenuating the negative effects on the economy, triggered by the epidemiological situation (COVID-19), and establishes the subsidization mechanism.   

Under the decision, the subjects of the subsidy are the non-commercial enterprises and organizations residents of Moldova, which established technical unemployment and/or standing. ‘’For the subjects of the subsidy which fully or partially ceased working, according to the decisions by the National Extraordinary Public Health Commission  and/or the Instructions of Moldova’s Commission for Emergency Situation, the government provides a subsidy worth the sum paid of the income tax, of the mandatory social state insurances contributions owed by the employer, of the mandatory individual state social insurances and the mandatory health insurances premiums in form of percentage contribution owed by the employer and employee related to the allowance/salary provided to the wage earners in technical unemployment and/or standing,’’ the document reads.   

Also, for the subjects of the subsidy which fully or partially ceased working, other than the aforementioned ones, the cabinet provides a subsidy worth 60  per cent of the sum paid of the income tax, of the mandatory social state insurances contributions owed by the employer, of the mandatory individual state social insurances and the mandatory health insurances premiums in form of percentage contribution owed by the employer and employee related to the allowance/salary provided to the wage earners in technical unemployment and/or standing.

The document stipulates the way of subsidization also other for wage earners, providing of unemployment benefit, supporting disadvantaged families, holders of licences, etc., in the context of the state of emergency, declared by Moldova given the COVID-19 pandemic.

An additional sum worth 816 million lei will be necessary for implementing the concerned measures, which is to be envisaged in the exercise of budgetary rectification, due to be carried out in the near future.  

According to the decision, ‘’the taking of responsibility by the government on the aforementioned draft law is declared, which is submitted to parliament, in order to be subjected to the procedure provided for in the Article 106 of the Constitution.’’ 

The parliament on 17 March declared state of emergency in Moldova till 15 May. On this period, the instructions by the National Commission for Emergency Situations are obligatory and executory. The Commission ruled to take more restrictive measures which hit including the business environment and more employees.     

Source: www.monitorul.md.