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Moldova-EU Association Agreement was 80% implemented in six months, minister


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The measures stipulated in the Moldova – EU Association Agreement in the first half of this year were 80% carried out. The measures created favorable conditions of commercial-economic activity for business entities, IPN has learned from the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure.

Parliament passed laws that regulate the entrepreneurial activity and adjust the legal acts to the state inspections system. The new changes will contribute to reducing costs and simplifying the activity of business entities owing to the elimination of 140 permissive documents, including 18 licenses.

There was adopted the legislative initiative that ensures the highly qualified IT professionals’ facilitated access to the labor market of the Republic of Moldova. The new changes are designed to support start-ups in the field in order to create an efficient permissive framework for ensuring the access of persons who invest in IT to Moldova. The public procurement area was improved by new regulations on the organization and functioning of the Public Procurement Agency.

In the transport sector, regulations were approved to ensure access to airport handling services in Moldova and loyal competition and to maintain the objectives transparent and non-discriminatory. Progress was made in promoting legal acts to constitute the Naval Agency of the Republic of Moldova and to remove the barriers to creating a common airspace.

In the energy sector, contracts were signed for having the Iasi-Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline that will connect the natural gas transportation systems of Moldova and Romania designed. There were elaborated the project documentation for ensuring the functioning of the operational, administration and maintenance complex and the legal framework planned for transposition.