Patentees consider Government officially declared war on them

The Government has officially declared war on the entrepreneurship patentees, in order to promote an aggressive monopolist policy in the domestic trade, a statement of the Small Business Association (SBA) says, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. SBA announces that it will file a suit against the Law no 208-XVI of July 2006 at the Constitutional Court, because it considers that the reprisals against the small business companies show authoritarian tendencies that are contrary to the principles of the European democracy and that can not be justified. “The official discrimination policy against the small business is confirmed through the actions of the Government. By prohibiting the patent-based economic activity, the Government leaves 40 thousand persons without a job. The patentees will not be able to benefit from the necessary support offered by the state, because there are no sufficient financial means. Each pensioner in Moldova is provided by 0.9 workers, fact that confirms the opinion of the experts that the poverty reduction strategy (EGPRSP) will end in smoke because it is formally tackled and even ignored”, SBA statement says. Also, the Association sets forth the violation of the right to expression and the right to freedom of assembly. According to the source, in some raions, the entrepreneurs are intimidated by the local authorities. SBA recalls the example of the patentees from Soldanesti, who are persecuted for the fact that they ask for the authorisation of a protest meeting. The Small Business Association considers that the patentees are the “scapegoats” of the Government, in light of the budgetary resources’ reduction. The facilities offered when registering an individual enterprise is not a solution because the cost for the maintenance of an individual enterprise exceeds by 5-6-fold the incomes of a patentee. At the same time, SBA mentions that the argument of the Government that someone buys “dozens of patents” shows that the public institutions that issue the patents are corrupt and this is the deficiency of the Government, and not of the business environment.