Over 100 representatives of the civil society from different regions of the country participate in the fifth edition of the NGOs Forum from Moldova, taking place in Chisinau on December 15-16. The forum has been relaunched after a five-year break by the Consortium for the development of the civil society, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We'll discuss how we can participate in strengthening the civil society, what new things we could promote in the regulation frame, what we shall do to insure the fiscal and financial sustainability of the NGOs,” said Sergiu Ostaf, the executive manager of the Center of Resources for NGOs (CReDO). According to Ostaf, other important issues will be the ways of promoting the civic spirit and the action of public interest in society and how the civil society could realize a viable self-regulation mechanism. “We have already had a positive experience in this regard in setting up the NGO Council,” Ostaf said. They will also be discussing the importance of the Strategy for the Development of the Civil Society from 2009 to 2012, recently adopted by the Parliament. The NGOs will try and adopt their Code of Conduct. Parliament's speaker Marian Lupu has said the forum is a special one because its a vast action joining representatives of the associative sector from the whole country. “The importance of the associative sector is not speculative, or conventional. I am sure that in a country having expressed itself to go on the way of democratic institutions and values, organizing the associative sector, the performance of the NGOs is not less important than what is asked from the public institutions,” Marian Lupu said. The Forum will end by adopting a resolution by which, among others, the NGOs will ask the Legislature to modify the law on NGOs so that the tax-payers are allowed to 2% of their incomes due to the state to the associative sector. The consortium for the development of the civil society also includes the Resources Center Tineri si Liberi, CReDO, the Contact Center and the Eco-Tiras Association. Now, there some 7,000 NGOs registered in Moldova. Almost half of them work work in the social and educational spheres. One tenth of them deals with protecting the human rights.