The Commission for Exceptional Situations approved a series of measures to prevent the unjustified rise in prices and to efficiently ensure the protection of Ukrainian refugees, IPN reports, quoting the Government’s press service.
The Commission decided to extend the list of the most necessary products on which the profit margin is limited so as to stop the unjustified rise in prices. The pork on bone, poultry, frozen fish, sugar beet sugar, eggs, pasta, potatoes, onion, white cabbage, fresh carrot and beet were added to the list.
For the limitation of the profit margin not to influence the suppliers of these goods, there was also limited the application of retro bonuses, marketing costs and other instruments that are usually used in shop chains.
The socially important products will be sold with a profit margin of at most 20%, while bread and knot-shaped bread of at most 10%.
Starting with March 1, 2022 and throughout the period of the state of emergency, the export of wheat and sugar and of a series for medical products such as syringes, perfusions and systemic use medicines (antibiotics, analgesics, anticoagulants) from the Republic of Moldova is banned.
To ensure the stability of electric power prices, the Commission suspended for a month the procedure for reviewing the electricity rates and also suspended the tendering procedures for purchasing electricity announced earlier. It decided to prolong the contract with the supplier of electrical energy at the current price and to maintain the current financial and contractual conditions until March 31, 2023.
Also, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection will design a program to cover a part of the costs for electrical energy incurred by socially deprived categories of people.
To increase the security of critical infrastructure, including in the field of cybersecurity, a new administrator was named at SRL Avia-Invest for the period of the state of emergency.
The entry of aid into the country is to be facilitated. The Customs Service will simplify the procedure for importing humanitarian assistance.
The local public authorities will be engaged in the process of managing the flow of foreigners coming from Ukraine, including with logistical and administrative support.
The foreigners in Moldova whose stay period expired or whose identity papers issued by the Moldovan authorities expired will not be held accountable.
The decisions were taken in a move to support the Moldovans in difficult situations and also the foreigners affected by the situation in the region.
