The Cabinet didn’t approve of the legislative proposal to institute a moratorium on state inspections at micro, small and medium-sized enterprises formulated by a group of MPs, invoking the irrelevance of the provided arguments, IPN reports.

Minister of Economy and Infrastructure Anatol Usatyi said that by adopting the law on state inspections at SMEs in 2012, the consolidation of the legal and institutional framework concerning state inspections at enterprises was ensured and the principles and procedures for performing inspections were set down.

“I want to note that under Article 4 of the law of 2012, the state inspections carried out during the first three years of activity since the registration of the person who performs entrepreneurial activities are consultative in character and do not result in penalties, except for cases when very serious violations are identified. Thus, the law already contains all the efficient instruments needed to protect the inspected person and to avoid abuses on the part of inspection bodies,” stated the minister.

Attending the Cabinet meeting, Chamber of Commerce and Industry chairman Sergiu Harea said a three-month moratorium on state inspections at SMEs in 2016 was instituted for two times. The number of inspection bodies and of permissive documents needed for entrepreneurial activity was then reduced. The presented documents do not specify what the goal of a new moratorium is. On the other hand, the number of liquidated enterprises is higher than of newly founded ones.

In this connection, Prime Minister Ion Chicu called on the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure and other governmental bodies, such as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to ensure discussions are held on a permanent basis so as to find out what problems are signaled by businesspeople and to deal with them by creating more favorable conditions for doing business.