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Government of Republic of Moldova - Action Programme of The Government of Republic of Moldova For 2016-2018
Government of Republic of Moldova - Action Programme of The Government of Republic of Moldova For 2016-2018
Chisinau, 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREAMBLE ................................................................................................................ 4
I. FIGHTING CORUPTION ..................................................................................... 7
A. ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICIES, INDEPENDENCE AND EFFICIENCY OF INSTITUTIONS ......................................................7
B. FIGHTING POLITICAL CORRUPTION..............................................................................................................................7
C. FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN LAW-ENFORCEMENT BODIES AND JUSTICE .........................................................................8
D. FIGHTING ILLICIT ENRICHMENT AND CONFISCATION OF PROCEEDS OF CORRUPTION AND RELATED OFFENCES ...........8
E. FIGHTING FRAUDS OF USING FOREIGN FUNDS..............................................................................................................9
F. CONTROL OF ASSETS, PERSONAL INTERESTS AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST .................................................................9
G. INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY AND PUBLIC SERVICES ON ELECTRONIC PLATFORMS ........................................................9
X. EDUCATION ........................................................................................................ 43
XI. RESEARCH AND SCIENCE ............................................................................ 44
XII. HEALTH ............................................................................................................ 45
XIII. CULTURE ........................................................................................................ 46
XIV. YOUTH AND SPORTS................................................................................... 47
XV. MASS-MEDIA ................................................................................................... 48
XVI. DIASPORA ....................................................................................................... 49
XVII. NATIONAL MINORITIES .......................................................................... 49
XVIII. CIVIL SOCIETY .......................................................................................... 50
PREAMBLE
I. FIGHTING CORUPTION
A. Anti-corruption policies, independence and efficiency of institutions
1. To reset the anti-corruption institutional system by excluding conflicts of
jurisdiction, improve cooperation and timing of efficient reforms in the public
authorities empowered with skills to prevent and combat corruption, criminally
investigate, supervise and enforce the regulatory framework in this respect.
2. To clearly delimitate powers as to fight high-level corruption cases and
capacities of public authorities as to prevent, fight, criminally investigate, supervise
and enforce the regulatory framework to this effect. To ensure the functional
independence of these institutions in line with the requirements of the Association
Agreement with the European Union.
3. To remove formal impediments for a successful investigation of corruption
acts by involving the expertise of the Council of Europe.
4. To diminish immunity regime for persons holding public dignity positions
and persons with special statute in the framework of criminal and contraventions
proceedings.
5. To assess the implementation of the National Anticorruption Strategy for
2011-2015, to expand its implementation schedule by one year and to adopt new anticorruption strategy for 2016-2019, under the provisions of this Programme.
B. Fighting political corruption
1. To implement the mechanism of financing political parties and electoral
campaigns, after additional consultations with European experts and civil society,
including a view of enhancing the mechanism for not allowing in any form funding
from abroad and the legal regulation of procedures for collecting and reporting party
membership fees.
2. To develop a mechanism for uniform implementation of the formula
determining the ceiling on funds that can be transferred to the electoral fund of
competitor, and to establish the legal liability for withholding or exceeding the
expenditure ceiling.
3. To adopt by competent bodies the methodological standards of specialised
institutions (tax authority, legal bodies etc.) on the manner and procedures to check
reports on revenues and expenditures of political parties, including during elections,
mirror and report costs.
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IV. ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT,
ENERGY
ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS AND JOB CREATION
SECURITY,
regional cluster programmes supported by the EU Strategy for the Danube Region
(2014-2020) and regional cooperation programmes (2014-2020).
26. To diversify financing instruments for small and medium enterprises from
external financing sources; to direct foreign credit lines to this sector, including
through leasing and microfinance companies.
27. To capitalize the Loan Guarantee fund for small and medium enterprises.
To extend the program on attracting remittances in the national economy "PARE 1 +
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28. Entrepreneurial development programs to support youth and women in
rural areas and to adapt companies to the "green economy.
29. To support the productive sectors of the economy by creating and
developing business infrastructure tools, namely: industrial parks, clusters, free
economic zones, scientific and technological parks, and business and innovation
incubators.
30. To increase the amount of public investments and make more efficient the
earmarking of public money to develop infrastructure necessary for businesses, by
taking into account the principle of balanced development of regions of the country.
31. To attract foreign investments in competitive sectors of the economy and
those with benefit and within major projects in infrastructure and industry, including
through co-financing investment projects.
32. To reorganise the Organization of Investment Attraction and Export
Promotion of Moldova (MIEPO) and the Organization for Development of Small and
Medium Enterprises (ODIMM).
33. To approve and implement the strategy on investment attraction and export
promotion for 2016-2020.
34. To diminish administrative barriers to export, focusing on small and
medium manufacturers.
35. To encourage entrepreneurs cooperation and their integration into regional
and global networks of production and trade, and introduce European management
practices in order to increase national export potential.
36. To develop a competitive system of facilities at the regional level in order
to attract foreign direct investment in industry.
37. To develop a national programme on industrialization of Moldova.
38. To simplify the procedures to issue and / or extend residence permits for
foreigners in Moldova.
39. To develop a lists of national development investment projects, including
in the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, based on objective performance
indicators, in order to create new jobs and for economic growth and eliminate
bureaucratic barriers to their implementation.
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28. To identify new support measures for young farmers through programmes
of agricultural and non-agricultural investment promotion.
29. To strengthen the dialogue with representatives of civil society (NGOs,
associations of producers / processors) affiliated to the agro-food sector in order to
enhance the legal framework in the field.
I. Balanced regional development
1. To promote integrated regional development policies by correlating sector
policies with those of regions development.
2. To diminish existing regional imbalances by developing the socio-economic
potential of development regions and ensure their competitiveness.
3. To create conditions for equitable attraction and distribution of capital
investment in regions.
4. To enhance the quality and impact of regions participation in cross border
cooperation and Euroregions. Establishing new partnerships with neighbouring
countries.
5. To increase the efficiency of using public funds by ensuring synergy
between available development funds.
6. To develop the National Landscaping Plan and regional landscaping plans.
7. Institutional capacity building of regional development agencies and other
stakeholders in order to implement the regional development policy.
8. To introduce multi-annual planning and financing of projects carried out
from regional development funds.
9. Moldova's territorial organisation according to Nomenclature of Territorial
Units for Statistics (NUTS) of the EU.
J. Energy security and efficiency
1. To integrate Moldova into the European energy market by transposing EU
acquis in energy sector and achieve interconnection projects.
2. To develop and adopt energy regulatory framework in line with the
provisions of the Association Agreement and EU acquis, in particular the
implementation of the energy packages for electricity market and the gas one.
3. To diversify ways and sources of gas and electricity supply by:
- enhancing energy security in natural gas sector through putting into
operation of Ungheni-Iasi gas pipeline and building the Ungheni-Chisinau line;
- exploration and development of own potential of gas and crude oil resources
in the south of the country and adoption of the Law on Oil;
- initiating the implementation of interconnection projects in the electricity
field with Romania.
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L. Constructions
1. To remove administrative and normative constraints as to get permissive
documents in the construction field to promote the Urbanism and Construction
Code.
2. To reform the system on issuing urbanism certificates and construction
licenses, by reducing the number of procedures and the term to get them.
3. To continue to reform the construction technical regulation system.
4. To ensure the quality in construction by:
- assessing specialists;
- checking and expertise planning documents for buildings;
- carrying out the control of quality of construction works and manufacturing
of construction products.
5. To facilitate the implementation of innovations and new technologies in
construction and manufacturing of construction products.
6. To reform the construction technical regulation system by adjusting it to the
European regulations.
7. To reform housing fund management and to adopt a new law on
condominium.
8. To promote minimum requirements on building energy efficiency
performance and work out a national programme on thermal rehabilitation of blocks
of flats.
9. To promote policies on providing young people and socially vulnerable
people with apartments, including by carrying out projects on construction of
apartments for the above-mentioned categories of population.
10. To optimise coordination and licensing of activities and works in the area
of construction.
M. Information society, information technology and communications
1. Multisectorial implementation of Moldova Digitala 2020 National
Information Society Development Strategy.
2. To develop the infrastructure of electronic communications, by expanding
the access and connection, creating conditions for continuing development of public
broadband electronic communication networks, implementing worldwide electronic
communication service, efficient regulation and management of radio frequencies.
3. Transition from the analogue terrestrial television to the digital one with
national coverage.
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13. To promote and respect human rights during the criminal investigation
according to provisions of art. 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
14. To strengthen the probation institution, including by using electronic
monitoring of persons subject to probation.
15. To develop a mechanism to compensate for injures if miscarriage of justice
in criminal cases and to review the law on injury compensation caused by
miscarriage of justice by the law-enforcement bodies.
16. To improve the process of execution in term of decisions of the European
Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and decisions by arbitration at national level.
17. To strengthen institutional capacities of the efficient activity of
Ombudsman Office.
18. To consolidate the normative framework that regulates the activity and
competences of the Council for preventing and eliminating discrimination and
ensuring equality.
19. To set up a mechanism on publishing early reports on interception of phone
calls of persons made via the communication means.
20. To develop a principle on free access to justice, by expanding subjects with
right to represent in the court.
21. To promote affirmative measures in order to increase the representation of
women in decision-making offices in public and political representation structures.
22. To improve mechanisms for conciliating family and career.
23. To develop efficient credit and support instruments for women in order to
develop their own businesses.
24. To facilitate and increase womens participation in political life and
decision-making, by changing the legal framework in order to introduce the
mandatory minimum representation quota.
D. Rule of law
1. To strengthen the role of the Constitutional Court, by promoting new
regulations on competence, procedure, criteria to select judges, expanding the circle
of notification subjects.
2. To review the procedures to access the profession of lawyer on merit-basis,
by proving transparency and the right to contest, to consolidate the self-management
bodies and mechanism of disciplinary liability of lawyers.
3. To develop a system on disciplinary liability of professions related to justice
system, as well as to review the principle to set costs for provided services.
4. To create, develop and ensure the interoperability of information systems (eProsecution, Integrated Dossier Management Programme and other relevant
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11. To expand the traffic and public order video monitoring system all over
Moldova; to adapt the legal framework so that this system works.
12. To decentralize police services and those of the emergency situations by
assigning some management duties to local authorities, including developing the
concept of community police.
13. To renovate police departments and endow police sub-divisions with
modern and European equipment.
14. To ensure the interconnection of information and communication systems
of law-enforcement and control institutions, to implement electronic file, e-arrest
etc.
15. To improve the expertise capacities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,
including by endowing it with a specialised laboratory for DNA examination.
16. To improve cooperation between the Interior Ministry, its structures and
sub-divisions and prosecution bodies.
17. To make more professional the carabineer troops.
18. To strengthen the border state integrated management and migration
management system.
19. To create joint border checkpoints.
20. To strengthen policemen, firemen and doctors integrated interventions if
any emergency. To continue to implement SMURD Service.
21. To expand the network of firemen and rescuers commissions all over
Moldova, to gradually renovate the special trucks parks.
22. To create a system warning people about risk of occurrence of emergencies
(based on CellBroadcast technology).
VII. GOOD GOVERNANCE
A. Central and local administration
1. To carry out central public administration reform, including by optimising
the number of ministries and public authorities, administrative costs, once a complex
analysis carried out.
2. To adopt and implement Good Governance Strategy.
3. To update each ministrys strategic development programme according to
the provisions of the Moldova-EU Association Agreement, as well as to undertake
concrete measures to implement them.
4. To conduct a comprehensive and multi-dimension study-analysis on
administrative and territorial reorganisation of Moldova.
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18. To assign to the local public administration competences to state and fine
illegal actions referring to life organisation at community level.
19. To develop public administration performance management.
20. To diversify mechanisms to maintain high achievers, increase workload
and reputation of public position by improving salary and non-salary motivation
system.
21. To consolidate the normative framework and develop professional
competences of public servants as to formulate and implement public policies,
including implementing the mechanism on ex-ante analysis of public policy impact.
22. To introduce minimum quality standards for public services and an
indicator system to monitor/assess their quality, as well as instruments to submit
complaints related to public services provided under standard.
B. Public finances
1. To fully implement engagements set as conditions in policy matrices related
to budgetary support programmes provided by EU.
2. To strategically evaluate the efficiency of public money at sector and
institutional level.
3. To promote a careful, predictable and responsible budgetary policy, which to
ensure budget medium- and long-term stability.
4. To ensure the good implementation of Financial Decentralisation Strategy
according to the Law on local public money.
5. To enhance control over the management of financial resources, including
the foreign ones. To fully implement and improve the budgetary system per
programmes based on performance.
6. To implement the system Real-time Treasury, which to offer access to
public to information on financial flows, incomes and public expenses, public debts,
public property management, contracts for purchasing public goods, works and
services, as well as subsidies and state aid.
7. To implement reform in the area of financing of feasible investments.
8. To work out and implement the concept on individual fiscal solution for
Moldovan entrepreneurs.
9. To take over and implement the best practices as to regulate transfer price.
10. To introduce new accounting records standards in the public sector. To set
up the Council for Standards on accounting records in the public sector.
11. To modernise and make more transparent the procurement process, as well
as to strengthen institutional capacities to make such procurement. To facilitate goods
and services procurement from the same administrative-territorial unit.
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and humanitarian one (including teaching the Romanian and Gagauz languages in
schools).
VIII. ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
1. To develop a global strategy on environment, which to regulate institutional
reforms aiming at implementing and observing environment legislation.
2. To implement institutional reform by reorganising the environment central
authority and subordinated authorities, in order to develop capacities to implement
policies in environment sector and manage environment components.
3. To integrate principles on environment preservation, protection and
recovery, green economic development and adaption to climate changes in all sectors
of national economy.
4. To create an integrated environment quality monitoring and control system,
by implementing efficient regulatory and control mechanisms: integrated
environment licenses, economic tools, green taxes, producer enlarged liability, etc.
5. To restore, protect and preserve biological diversity by expanding woods
areas up to 15% of Moldovas territory and state-protected natural areas up to 8%, as
well as ensuring the efficient and sustainable management of natural ecosystems.
6. To increase the level of environmental education and culture of citizens, by
including environmental education in the formal education system, as well as by
providing access to appropriate instruments and materials for non-formal and
informal environmental education.
7. To set up an integrated environment information system and provide access
to environment information.
8. To improve the quality of surface waters by implementing integrated water
management system based on drainage basin principle.
9. To increase citizens access to safe quality drinking water supply systems
and sanitation services.
10. To restore and improve the quality of soils, land sustainable development,
environmental reconstruction of degraded lands, of those affected by slides and of
areas of protection of farmlands.
11. To sustainably manage, protect and preserve useful mineral resources,
including petroleum and gas resources.
14. To implement measures to reduce air pollution, including by transport
means and economic activities.
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10. To prevent and efficiently control infectious diseases with social impact, to
control non-transmissible diseases, professional illnesses, to promote and early
educate the healthy life style, by adopting new national inter-sector programmes.
11. To implement legislation on tobacco control, approve the package of laws
on tobacco and alcoholic beverages control, to implement a sin tax and increase
excises for tobacco products and alcoholic beverages, as additional financing source
for the health system.
12. To implement new mechanisms to train, motivate and keep human
resources in health, by approving the strategy on development of human resources in
the health system for 2016-2025.
13. To reinstate mutual confidence and improve the doctor-patient relation by
approving and implementing the new deontological code of medical worker and
pharmacists.
14. To improve the quality of process to train human resources, by
consolidating the medical and scientific research bases, university and post-university
training and by setting-up the University Hospital.
XIII. CULTURE
1. To develop the legal framework in order to protect the national cultural
heritage, to promote artistic creativity and culture industries.
2. To set up and develop the national system on documentation, recording,
conservation and protection of national cultural heritage system.
3. To develop and integrate the cultural heritage and creative potential in
national and local community development projects.
4. To promote national cultural heritage and integrate it in the system of
European and universal values.
5. To improve and strengthen the national education and artistic system.
6. To modernise and diversify the offer of cultural services.
7. To develop culture industries and protect traditional handicrafts.
8. To revive and develop the national cultural infrastructure.
9. To promote the policy on creating community cultural centres.
10. Institutional capacity-building necessary to implement the Culture
Development Strategy Culture 2020 (Institute of Monuments, Moldovan Cultural
Institute, Culture Training Centre).
11. To promote, in partnership with development partners, the national
programme on public libraries digitalization.
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XV. MASS-MEDIA
1. To elaborate the national concept of media development based on enhancing
pluralism and freedom of speech.
2. To implement a viable mechanism to develop the local audio-visual
products, to secure the Moldovan information space and prevent/fight against internal
and foreign media influences with propaganda feature.
3. To develop a legal framework as regards the transparency of media property
(regarding the structure of shareholders and identity of final beneficiary), to set a
comprehensive control in order to prevent media property concentration, and
respectively to fine for non-observing legal provisions in the area.
4. To adopt a new Audiovisual Code in line with the Resolution of Council of
Europe, directives of European Union, EU good practices and recommendations of
development partners.
5. To adjust reforms of the national public audiovisual institution, namely
Teleradio-Moldova Company, meant to promote publics interests and to exclude the
infringement of political factor into the public audiovisual activity.
6. To ensure de jure and de facto the independence of the Audiovisual
Coordinating Council and enhance its quality as guarantor of public interest in the
audiovisual sector, by non-admitting political interference in its activity.
7. To provide the Audiovisual Coordinating Council with strong prerogatives
to ensure the pluralism of opinions in the audiovisual programme, to promote policies
on observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms. To review the procedure
to fine offenders in audiovisual area in line with the European standards.
8. To implement the Law on denationalisation of periodicals and liberalize
market of distribution of written media.
9. To create an appropriate framework to develop the publicity sector, not to
admit unfair competition in the area and to proportionally dose advertisement from
abroad into the local media space.
10. To harmonise the Law on access to information in accord with
imperative and electronic governance practices.
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XVI. DIASPORA
1. To approve and implement Diaspora 2025 Strategy.
2. To implement an integrated approach on migration and diaspora at central
and local level.
3. To foster the Bureau for Relations with Diaspora within the State
Chancellery as institution that ensures the coordination of public policies designed
for diaspora.
4. To make clear institutional delimitation between the Interethnic Relations
Bureau and Bureau for Relations with Diaspora, to assigning to the latter all
responsibilities and competences as to diaspora.
5. To improve the mechanism and facilitate the recognition of diplomas and
certificates and those got abroad.
6. To develop and promote electronic systems and products in order to
facilitate diasporas access to qualitative online services.
7. To facilitate transport and money transfer for diaspora and families left at
home.
8. To increase the number of programmes with and for diaspora, aiming at
keeping the national identity, promoting traditions and cultural heritage, and organize
topic-related projects for a better promotion of Moldovas image abroad.
9. To diversify complementary teaching services (online, distance teaching) for
children of diaspora.
10. To support Sunday schools and Romanian language teaching courses in
diaspora.
11. To develop a set of financial instruments in order to attract diasporas
investments: savings funds and investments for migrants, and mixed financing
platforms.
XVII. NATIONAL MINORITIES
1. To elaborate and implement the Strategy on national minorities integrations
in Moldova.
2. To create conditions necessary to keep, develop and express the ethnic,
cultural, linguistic and religious identity of persons among the national minorities
rows.
3. To facilitate the intercultural dialogue and enhance civic belonging of
national minorities towards Moldova.
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