Moldovan Commission for Emergency Situations approves new measures to ensure country's energy security

Chisinau, 14 April /MOLDPRES/ - The Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE) today approved more decisions for ensuring Moldova’s energy security, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

Thus, the quantities of electric energy necessary for the end consumers and system operators will be purchased from the Energocom stock company on the period 1 May – 30 June 2022. Therefore, the Energocom stock company will buy the needed electric energy following the holding of a tender till 22 April 2022. The tender’s winner will be established based on the lowest price for electric energy proposed and if there is one bidder, the price will be set through direct negotiation.   

If the providers increase the prices for electric energy bought on the wholesale market, which will generate an impact higher than five per cent on the incomes established at the approval of the prices/tariffs in force, during two working days, the providers of the service will submit to the National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) the applications on the adjusting of the regulated prices for electric energy for supply to end consumers and the tariffs of electric energy distribution. During five working days, ANRE will adjust and publish the tariffs of electric energy distribution and the regulated prices for electric energy for supply to end consumers.    

Also at the today’s meeting, the CSE members ruled to increase by 3, 590,539 cubic metres the volume of gas transferred to Romania and preserved for emergency situations, thus exempting the concerned quantities from the payments of the rights to export and import. The overall volume of natural gas stocked in Romania will be of 18,539,681 cubic metres.   

CSE also ruled that the citizens refugees from Ukraine will benefit from services in the reproduction health sector, included in the single programme of mandatory health insurance (AOAM), with the expenses fully covered by the United Nations Population Fund. The Commission members also decided that the Ukrainian citizens would be able to submit to the Migration and Asylum Bureau the request for giving the right of temporary stay, without the presentation of the certificate of criminal record. When submitting the application, the citizen will sign only the declaration on his/her own responsibility on the lack of criminal antecedents.       

Another provision deals with the redistribution of the sum of 329,236 thousand lei from the budget of the Infrastructure and Regional Development Ministry from the programme on roads’ development to the budget of the Labour and Social Protection Ministry and the programme on social protection of some categories of citizens.

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