Moldova has the legal framework needed for implementing public-private partnership projects (PPP) and a list of 20 state-owned facilities and public interest works and services proposed for PPP, director of the Economy Ministry’s Public Property Agency Tudor Copaci said in a program on Radio Moldova station, IPN reports.

“Only one PPP project has been officially launched in healthcare. But more such projects will be initiated soon. There will be also launched PPP projects at the level of territorial-administrative units,” said Tudor Copaci. According to him, for this type of projects to be successful, they should be preceded by profound feasibility studies where the objectives of both of the partners should be clearly specified. 

The Government approved the institution of an interministerial public-private partnership network that will coordinate the activities in the area of PPP between the central public authorities and the relevant division of the Public Property Agency. Currently, this network includes 22 central public authorities.

Dumitru Budianschi, of the Independent Analytical Center “Expert-Grup, underlined the necessity of making analysis of the surplus value of the projects implemented under the PPP mechanism. “In order to make progress in implementing the PPP projects, the Law on Concession should be updated and adjusted to the Law on the PPP,” said the expert.

Elena Aculai, scientific researcher at the Institute of Economy, Finance and Statistics, said the improvement of the business environment represents an important precondition for attracting solid, local and foreign investors to these projects. “The PPP projects require serious investments that are recouped during many years. I think the method of organizing contests to select the private partners should be reviewed and cleared of corruption elements,” she said.

The public-private partnership represents cooperation between the authorities and the private sector in the use of public property for implementing projects.