Selling-patent holders plan to organise a protest march in Chisinau on March 13, Info-Prim Neo reports. Despite the talks of February 27 between officials from the Economy and Commerce Ministry (ECM) and a team of patent-holders, the latter don’t give up protesting. The Small Business Association president, Eugen Roşcovanu, has told Info-Prim Neo the march will start from the Cantemir Market on the Ismail street. The protesters will then go along the Ştefan cel Mare boulevard, stopping over in front of the Government and Presidency, to finally picket the Parliament. Eugen Roşcovanu says the vendors are not happy with the results of the talks with the ministry. According to him, the ECM keeps on trying to palter resolving the problem of entrepreneurship patents. The sellers came up with a list of types of goods which, they think, shall be allowed for sale. Apart from housewares and electrical appliances, which can be supported with warranties from wholesale stores, they asked to be permitted to sell goods for children and second-hand wares. The merchandisers demand to make a clear definition of the terms „kiosk,” „booth” and „counter”. „In many cases, a film-covered table is registered as a kiosk or even a boutique, the patent-holders being harassed by district law-enforcement officers,” says Eugen Roşcovanu. According to him, the merchandisers agree to pay for the patents on a quarterly basis and once a year – for their medical and social insurance. Yet they oppose the ECM’s proposal to raise the patent price threefold. On the other hand, the Economy Minister, Igor Dodon, highly appreciates the talks’ results. Dodon has characterised the meeting as “very constructive and efficient,” reads an ECM release. The ministry announces the talks ended in a series of solutions, as allowing the patent commerce at booths and counters in authorised bazaars. The ECM has rejected the proposal to permit the patent-commerce of electrical appliances and is to consider the merchandisers’ proposal to prolong the legal term for the patent-based trading till 2017. On Fbruary 18, the ECM forwarded the patent-holders its proposals concerning the patent commerce. Earlier, the members of the Small Business Association had handed over the ECM a set of alternative proposals. In their request to the ministry, the patent merchandisers asked for unconditionally abrogating Law no. 208 or, as an alternative, for establishing a moratorium till 2015. A compromise variant, according to the SBA president, would be to modify the law so that freely starting individual businesses should be allowed alongside the right to work on a patent basis. Up to now, the patent-holders have organised about 120 protests actions in more towns, demanding the abrogation of Law no. 208, which bans practicing the commerce on the patent basis.