The founders of peasant farmsteads should check their status with the local public authorities to see if the farm was included or not in the deregistration list according to the law that was adopted by Parliament in March 2022.  If the mayor’s office didn’t put the farms on the list of those that are to be deregistered, these are considered active farms and the founders will be obliged to annually pay the mandatory health insurance premium in fixed amount, director general of the National Health Insurance Company Ion Dodon stated in a news conference.

He explained that under the law on peasant farmsteads of January 3, 1992, a number of farmland owners became founders of peasant farmsteads with the status of individual enterprise and were obliged to pay the insurance premium in fixed amount. As many peasant farmsteads de facto didn’t work, Parliament on March 10, 2022 adopted the law by which it instituted the mechanism for deregistering the inactive peasant farmsteads.

All the citizens who received notifications from the National Health Insurance Company for paying insurance premiums or other notifications from other state institutions in connection with the fact that they are founders of peasant farmsteads should take measures to make sure that the farm is struck off the relevant registers.

Ion Dodon noted that on the initiative of the Government, Parliament was recently issued with a bill to exempt the given persons from contravention liability for the non-payment of the mandatory health insurance premium in fixed amount on time so as to spare them from financial pressure.