Regulatory reform goes on
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The ongoing third phase of the entrepreneurial regulatory reform is dedicated to improving authorizations and permits issued by governmental agencies to businesses, said Alexandru Gozun, department head at the Ministry of Economy and also member of the State Commission for the Regulatory Reform, in an interview with Radio Moldova.
According to Alexandru Gozun, this process is part of the so-called Guillotine-3 reform which involves a thorough analysis of the public services provided for a fee, (while the first and the second guillotines reviewed the legal documents issued by the Government to regulate entrepreneurial activity – IPN). At present, the public institutions and agencies provide roughly 4,000 types of services, which in 2009 yielded 1.4 billion lei.
“The intention is to maximally reduce the number of permit-issuing services so as to make the rest of them free of charge. At the same time, we are considering the opportunity to transfer the responsibility for issuing authorizations to the Licensing Chamber”, said Alexandru Gozun.
In the context of the regulatory reform, the Government recently adopted a bill proposing the use of the one-stop-desk principle to register companies at the State Registration Chamber. Under the bill, the Chamber would be interconnected with the databases of the National Statistics Bureau, the State Tax Inspectorate, the Social Insurance Corporation, and the Mandatory Health Insurance Corporation to have access to all the necessary information, which will save the founders a lot of time.
Another bill proposes reducing by one-third the types of entrepreneurial activities that require authorizations from the Licensing Chamber and also relaxing the licensing procedures. Another legal initiative, which was already submitted to Parliament for consideration, proposes easier procedures for obtaining construction authorizations.
Alexandru Gozun added that Moldova improved its standing in the World Bank's Doing Business rankings – recently the Bank listed Moldova among the top 10 reformers, alongside countries like Macedonia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates.
