Public Property Agency to present possible public-private partnership projects

The Economy Ministry’s Public Property Agency compiles a list of ten facilities and nine public services that can be re-launched under public-private partnership projects. The Agency’s director Tudor Copaci said that the list includes plots and buildings managed by the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defense, the Academy of Sciences and other authorities, and medical, construction, cleanup and other services. There will be built rooms for services and scientific institutions and other facilities, Info-Prim Neo reports. ”The list is now not very long, but will be extended when this method of stimulating the private sector and attracting investments to the national economy is implemented,” Tudor Copaci said in an international conference themed “Public-Private Partnership” that involved representatives of the central and local public authorities, foreign and national economic experts, and representatives of civil society. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar said that the Ministry pays special attention to the informing of public authorities. “It is important that the resources, obligations and benefits be correctly and transparently distributed between the two partners – public and private,” he stated. Analyst Dumitru Budianschi, of the think tank Expert-Grup, stressed the necessity of thoroughly preparing public-private partnership projects. According to him, there is no use launching many projects. It is important that they are well-thought-out, even if they are fewer in number. According to the Ministry of Economy, about 100 public-private partnership projects have been launched during the last two years. The Public Property Agency endorsed feasibility studies for 70 projects. Contests to select the private partners were announced for many of these projects. Private partners were identified in ten of them and there were signed contracts for implementing the projects. They include national and local projects in healthcare, transport, constructions, etc. Moldova is helped to prepare and launch the projects by the International Finance Corporation that forms part of the World Bank Group, the German Agency for International Cooperation GIZ, and other international organizations.