Patentees postpone protests

The Small Business Association imposed a moratorium on patent holders’ protests for the period of the negotiations held with the institutions of the executive and legislative. The final decision will depend on the results of the negotiations over patentees’ demands, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communiqué from the Association. In a news conference earlier, the patent holders asked that the authorities take determined steps to stimulate the small businesses. Otherwise, they will have to take again to the streets. The patentees complain about the high price of the patents and that the tax inspectors demand that they change the legal form of organization and register as private entrepreneurs, without having a legal document. The patent holders demand annulling the summons to appear in court for not paying obligatory health insurance contributions and decreasing the price of the health insurance policy by 75%, as for the farmland owners. Since 2005 until 2008, the patentees staged a number of protests, expressing their disagreement with the amendments made to the Law on the Entrepreneur’s Patent.