The number of inspection bodies decreased from 68 to 45 over the last two years. However, the inspections carried out at companies remain as burdensome, said Simion Platon, the head of the Cahul branch of the Chamber of Trade and Industry, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. Simion Platon said the companies working in the southern districts of the country, mainly the small and medium-sized enterprises, are dissatisfied with the working methods of the inspection bodies as they use the same methodology as 20 years ago. The inspectors' attitude towards the companies that try to maintain the workplaces and pay salaries, even if they were hit by the crisis, leaves much to be desired, said Platon. The business associations started to submit proposals concerning the state regulations on entrepreneurial activities that are now under revision. The Ministry of Economy launched recently a questionnaire to collect suggestions and proposals for reforming the inspection work. The questionnaire was published on the Ministry's website. The State Tax Service aims to replace the selective inspections with branch inspections that will be carried out at all the companies, not only some of them, so as to identify the violations of the fiscal legislation. A number of 63,297 inspections were carried out at companies last year, by 14,274 more than in 2008. Out of them, 5,376 were selective inspections. During the first three months of this year, there were performed 121 selective inspections, 2.5 times fewer than in the corresponding period last year.