Moldovan parliament to consider initiative providing for less administrative burden on business environment

Chisinau, 4 December /MOLDPRES/ - A legislative initiative aimed at reducing the administrative burden on the business environment and optimizing the system of control on behalf of the state’s institutions will be considered by the parliament. The members of the parliament’s commission for economy, budget and finances today approved the report on the draft on amendment of the Law on the state control and of the sectoral laws related to the state control.  

The draft was worked out by the State Chancellery, based on proposals submitted by the control bodies and the business environment, with the support of the Secretariat of the Economic Council under the Prime Minister and the Moldova Institutional and Structural Reforms Activity (MISRA) of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The document clarifies and excludes the doubling of positions between the control bodies, as well as the disagreements between the specialty laws and the general provisions of the law on state control. As a result, they aim at removing the uncertain provisions, which can lead to the  abusive interpretation in relation to the people subjected to control.     

The authors of the document propose amendments to the sector of control concerning the supervision of market and consumers’ protection; technical supervision and constructions; labour relations; environmental protection; supervision of the public health, medicines and medical devices; food safety, labour migration, etc.   

Among the most important provisions of the draft, there is the carrying out of joint controls and the removing of doublings or overlaps between the field of competence of the control bodies. More exactly, joint controls of the competent authorities will be carried out at the units which sell more categories of products, which are within the competence of different market supervision categories. Nevertheless, the carrying out of joint control will not be compulsory, if it is part of the verification of a supply chain and boils down to the products which are part of the same chain.  

Another stipulation of the document regards the promotion of the consultative control and of the voluntary compliance. It has the goal to prevent and reduce the number of situations of abuse in the enforcement of the restrictive measures.  

According to statistics data, over 63,000 enterprises with an overall turnover of 286 billion lei were working in Moldova in 2023. As much as 99.2 per cent of these enterprises represent micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises.