Moldovan Commission for Emergency Situations approves allocation of financial means for compensation of prices for energy, maintenance of placement centres for refugees

Chisinau, 1 December /MOLDPRES/ - The Labour and Social Protection Ministry (MMPS) will transfer in advance 200 million lei to the Termoelectrica stock company for the compensation of the prices for thermal energy provided to the vulnerable consumers on the period November-December 2023. A decision to this effect today was approved at a meeting of the Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE), summoned by Prime Minister Dorin Recean, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.     

Also, MMPS will transfer, in advance, another 100 million lei to the CET-Nord stock company, in order to provide compensations at the invoices for the thermal energy to the consumers from the Balti municipality for the period November-December 2023.    

Also today, the CSE members ruled to allocate 1.9 million lei from the government’s intervention fund for the maintenance of the temporary placement centres for refugees. Another 57.8 million lei will be distributed to provide financial stimuli to some categories of social sector employees and for financing measures of social assistance provided to children at risk, including from families of refugees. The financial means were provided from the United Nations Children’s Fund in Moldova, based on the Memorandum of Understanding, signed with the Labour and Social Protection Ministry.        

Another decision regards the extension, till 22 December this year, of the term in which the operator of the electric energy transport system will issue the discount notes to the balancing groups for the period June 2022-August 2023. The previous term of discount was established on 30 November. At the same time, the CSE decision brings clarifications as to the enforcement of the contribution of equity, if the end consumers of natural gas rule to switch from the universal provider to a provider from the unregulated market. Thus, the CSE decision clears up the situation in which a consumer can receive money from the universal provider of natural gas, if it registered positive tariff deviations.