Programul Guvernului 2011-2014

GUVERNUL REPUBLICII MOLDOVA
Activity Program
Government of the Republic of Moldova
European Integration:
Freedom, Democracy, Welfare
2011-2014
Chisinau, 2011
Contents
Introduction ............................................................ 4 Priorities of the Government of the Republic of Moldova ................................ 5 Building a State of Law ......................................... 8
a. b. c. d. e. f. g. New Constitution Development and Enactment ............................................... 8 Protection of Human Rights ................................................................................. 8 Reform of the Judiciary ........................................................................................ 9 Public Order, Security and Defence ................................................................... 15 Strengthened National Integrity and Anti-Corruption System ...................... 18 Media Liberalization and Freedom of Expression ............................................ 19 Strengthened Civil Society and Cooperation with the Public Sector ............. 20
Economic and Financial Policies......................22

a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. Business Environment ........................................................................................ 22 Competitiveness Policies and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises .................................................................................... 25 Public Property Administration and Privatization ........................................... 27 Budgetary - Fiscal Policy and Public Finance Management ............................ 28 Agro-Industrial Policies ...................................................................................... 31 Infrastructure and Transport ............................................................................. 33 Quality Infrastructure, Industrial Security and Consumer Protection ........... 36 Information and Communication Technology.................................................. 37
Responsible and Efficient Public Administration .......................................................39

a. b. c. d. e. Central Public Administration Reform .............................................................. 39 Decentralization and Local Autonomy ............................................................. 42 e-Governance at Citizens Service ..................................................................... 43 Local and Regional Development...................................................................... 44 Foreign Assistance Coordination....................................................................... 46
Foreign Policy .........................................................47 Country Reintegration .......................................52 Education and Research......................................54

a. Pre-university Education ........................................................................................ 54 b. Higher Education and Research ............................................................................. 55 c. Initial and Ongoing Training of Human Resources ............................................... 56
Health of Population ...........................................58 Social Policies .........................................................61

a. Social Assistance ..................................................................................................... 61 b. Social Insurances ..................................................................................................... 62 c. Labour, Employment and Labour Migration ........................................................ 63 d. Gender Policies ....................................................................................................... 65 e. Demographic Policies ............................................................................................. 67 f. Social Partnership .................................................................................................... 67
Integration of National Minorities ..............69 Culture ......................................................................70 Youth and sport policies .....................................72
a. Social Integration of Youth and Development of Their Potential ....................... 72 b. Physical Exercise and Sports .................................................................................. 74
Environment Protection.....................................76
a. Climate Change and Use of Natural Resources ..................................................... 76 b. Risk Reduction and Protection against Disaster .................................................. 77
Introduction
T
he Government Program European Integration: Freedom, Democracy, Welfare provides a framework for Moldovan governance policies for 2011-2014. Due to the policies, the Government of the Alliance for European Integration brought forward in its previous mandate, the Republic of Moldova proved to be highly eective in economic stabilization and recovery from the recession caused by the world nancial crisis, thus regaining the trust of international nancial institutions, and also in mending the image of the country, while recording remarkable progress towards European integration. This Program is the next piece of the chain of Government commitments made to our citizens and external partners. Therefore, the strategic vision of this program, which is improved welfare of the population, focuses on two major Government objectives: improvement of the living standards of citizens and European integration. To achieve these objectives, a number of actions will be taken in relation to social protection of citizens, economy development, strengthening the rule of law, creation of jobs, development of relations with the external partners, attracting investments, visa liberalization and other actions that will improve the lives of our citizens. One of the principles followed by the Government will be turning overall success lately achieved into tangible benets for every citizen. Therefore, the Government Program, as a whole, aims at improving the welfare of Moldovan citizens and making other crucial changes in the society, which all together will speed up the EU integration of the Republic of Moldova.
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Activity Program
of the Government of the Republic of Moldova
Priorities
uropean Integration. European Integration is a fundamental priority of the domestic and foreign policies of the Republic of Moldova. The achievement of this objective in full will enable the country to embark on a system of security, stability and prosperity, which is governed by democratic values and respect for fundamental human rights. At the same time, the most ecient way to achieve political, economic and social modernization of the country is to responsibly implement the commitments deriving from the European course, as European integration means, above all, positive internal transformation of the country. The Government of the Republic of Moldova pledges to make consistent eorts to implement the reforms needed by Moldovan society and requested by the international community, in areas such as press freedom, independence of the judiciary, liberalization of the economy which are vital for the European integration of the country. The coherent implementation of policies designed to socially, politically and economically Europeanize the country and an association agreement with the European Union will enable the Republic of Moldova to become, in a reasonable time, eligible for EU accession. As a result of the implementation of the Government Program, the Republic of Moldova is expected to become a reliable and welcome partner of the international community and to prove successful in the negotiations on the Association Agreement, including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU, and launch negotiations on EU membership. Country Reintegration. The reintegration of the country is one of the key government objectives. The Government of the Republic of Moldova pledges to scale up eorts to identify a viable and sustainable solution to the Transnistrian conict, holding on to the principles of sovereignty and territorial integration of the Republic of Moldova. Neutrality and the Europeanization of the Republic of Moldova will be conducive to country reintegration. The Government stands for 5+2 negotiations on conict settlement in line with the principles acceptable to Moldovas key political factors, and for the withdrawal of the armed forces of the Russian Federation from the territory of the Republic of Moldova and substitution of the current peace-keeping troops with an international civil mission. The Government commits to wide social and infrastructure projects in the Eastern rayons (districts) of the Republic of Moldova and to creating conditions conducive to the real economic, political, social and informational reintegration of the Transnistrian region within the Republic of Moldova.
Activity Program Government of the Republic of Moldova
2011-2014
Ecient and Balanced Foreign Policy. The Government is committed to a balanced foreign policy beneting the country and focused on mutually benecial relations with both Western and Eastern partners. Therefore, the Government of the Republic of Moldova will continue to strengthen the good neighbourhood and strategic partnership relations with the European Union, Romania, Ukraine, the USA and the Russian Federation. Besides focusing on European Integration, the Government intends to scale up the traditional cooperation with partners from the Community of Independent States. We will persist in promoting the countrys economic interests and protecting the interests of Moldovan citizens abroad. Rule of Law. The Government will ensure the application of the power separation principle and independence of the legislative, executive and judicial powers; uniform and accurate enforcement of the legislation and equality of all citizens before the law. An independent judiciary is the key element of a state of law and democratic governance, and the tool which should provide proper support to implement other reforms. Only a well-organized legal system is the key to attracting investments, ghting corruption, combating criminality and defending human rights. For these very reasons, the Government will pay special attention to building a state of law, implicitly by implementing structural and procedural reforms of the judiciary. Poverty Reduction. Quality Public Services. The objective of the Moldovan Government is a society without poverty. The major challenges our society is facing are poverty and lack of access to education, quality healthcare services and decent public services. In our view, modernization and social progress can be achieved through extensive and intelligent public investment in infrastructure, education, youth training, industrial policy conducive to increasing competitiveness of the economy and local companies and stable and well-paid jobs, coupled with a balanced scal policy and ecient and transparent management of public funds. We will create economic and social opportunities for both young and elderly people. The Government will be consistent in implementing a clear policy for increasing pay, pensions, scolarships and other social payments, in order to ensure a decent standard of living. In this sense a large-scale reform of the social insurance and healthcare systems is crucial. The public education system will be upgraded due to proper investments, guaranteed university autonomy and higher prestige and attractiveness of teaching, including through salary increases for teachers. Sustainable Economic Growth. The Government will proceed to changing the country development paradigm from a consumption-driven economy to an economy based on investments, innovations and competitiveness, so that the national economy becomes capable of creating viable and well-paid jobs, while society in general and each citizen in particular can benet from a sound, consistent and balanced
Activity Program Government of the Republic of Moldova
2011-2014
economic growth. The economic and nancial policies will stimulate, encourage and back the eorts of businesses to produce both for the local market and for export. This objective can be achieved only with a competitive economy, modern infrastructure; highly educated and qualied human resources; a friendly business environment in a stable economy; competent, responsible and honest governance. The Government will ensure an ecient and stable cooperation with the international nancial institutions and other development partners of the Republic of Moldova in strengthening the resources needed to implement the economic recovery and long-term inclusive development program. Continued macroeconomic stability is crucial for maintaining sustainable and balanced economic growth. It can be achieved by:
achieving and maintaining price stability; implementing a exible national currency exchange policy ; implementing a balanced budget-scal policy; careful management of the public debt, enabling medium and long term stability of public funds; reducing scal burden on the economy and extending access to nancing.
Power Decentralization. The Government will continue applying the European principles and norms in the eld of public administration. The Republic of Moldova will come closer to the European Union only if it substitutes the highly hierarchical entities with decentralized, transparent and dynamic entities governed by the rule of law, civil rights and freedoms. The Government will make sure the central administration reform is correlated with the local administration reform and competences are transferred to local public authorities, including competences related to public nances. Power decentralization and real empowerment of local public authorities will also have a major impact on the true development of the regions, moreover leading to the deconcentration of economic activity throughout the country.
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a State of Law
a. New Constitution Development and Enactment b. Protection of Human Rights
Governance Objectives:
1. 2. Develop the legal and institutional framework in the area of human rights. Redress human rights issues deemed problematic for the Republic of Moldova (eradicating torture and other punishments or inhuman or degrading treatment; individual freedom and security; eradicating human tracking and domestic violence; free access to justice and the right to a fair trial; freedom of speech and access to information; securing rights for disabled people etc.). Strengthen human rights protection mechanisms.
Building
3.
Priority Actions:
Reform the government law enforcement institutions to eradicate torture, ill-treatment, unjustied, arbitrary and disproportionate suppression measures; Align the national torture prevention mechanism with the international standards and commitments; Upgrade the torture and maltreatment investigation mechanism, as well as that for investigating human tracking; Transfer the preliminary detention institutions under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Aairs to the Ministry of Justice; Upgrade temporary detention facilities by building regional arrest houses under the Ministry of Justice and improving the detention conditions in police stations; Add and/or review the study of human rights and fundamental liberties in the pre-university and university curricula, and deliver ongoing training to civil servants, sta of national public order institutions etc. in this area; Develop universal human rights culture, wherein everybody is aware of their own rights and obligation to respect the rights of others, and the focus is on the individual as a responsible member of a free, peaceful, pluralistic and inclusive society; Upgrade the complaints management system;
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Identify and/or improve the mechanisms for ensuring ecient implementation of human rights and fundamental liberties in line with the national, regional and international frameworks; Design a national inter-ministerial supervision and coordination mechanism for supervising and coordinating, with active participation of civil society, the implementation of conclusions and advice on human rights provided by the specialized international bodies of the UN and CE; Recognize the competence of the UN Committee against Torture to receive and consider individual claims based on art.21 and 22 of the Convention against Torture and recognize the competence of the UN Committee on elimination of racial discrimination to receive and consider individual claims from Moldova based on art.14 of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination; Build the capacities and improve performance of the Centre for Human Rights; Provide all necessary conditions for the evaluation of the Republic of Moldova through the Periodic Universal Review of Human Rights Mechanism, and implement the nal recommendations; Improve the regulatory and institutional framework on religious cults, in order to prevent religious discrimination; Revise the mechanism put in place by Law no. 1225-XII of December 8, 1998 on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression.
c. Reform of the Judiciary

1. 2. 3. 4. Build ecient, professional and independent judiciary in line with the European practices. Reform the judiciary and prosecution systems, making them independent, impartial, operational and transparent. Improve integrity and professionalism of judges. Provide a stable and ecient nancing system for the judiciary.
Priority Actions: Reform the judicial organization system:

Disband the specialized courts, transferring their duties to the specialized boards/sections in common law courts; Reform the judicial map in order to build the managerial capacities of courts and ensure most ecient use of available resources; Revise the manner in which judicial panels are created; Enhance the system of random assignment of cases to judges. Assignment of cases must be based on objective and transparent criteria, prescribed in law or other special regulations.
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Any exception must be justied. The same rule shall apply to the cases when, for objective and legal reasons, substitution of a judge is required; Ensure publishing of all court rulings and extend public access to les; Ensure adequate training of judges, including by reforming and streamlining performance of the National Institute of Justice; Formulate clear and transparent selection, appointment and promotion criteria for judges; Reduce the age and seniority limit in judge positions required to become a judge within appeal courts and within the Supreme Court of Justice and provide access to such courts to professionals who come from outside of the judiciary but demonstrate integrity and professionalism; Revise, in line with the recommendations of the Venice Commission, the trial period, which reduces the independence of the judge; Put in place substantial pay raises for judges, coupled with the retirement system reform and cancel any bonuses or non-nancial incentives that are not based on objective criteria; Ensure transparency in selection and appointment of presidents of courts and their deputies; Revise the competences of presidents of courts and their deputies, releasing them of administrative functions; Revise the procedural and organization rules, so as to ensure internal independence of judges from the presidents of courts and their deputies; Introduce the position of secretary general of the court, that will be the authorizing ocer of the court in charge of resource management and who will not be directly involved in doing justice; Revise the status, duties and pay of the court clerk, so that the latter, assigned with wide procedural tasks and in charge of the greatest part of justice administration process, fulls not only technical functions, but provides real assistance to the judge; Improve organization of courts revise the establishment lists of auxiliary sta and judges, given the reassignment of responsibilities among the sta of courts; Introduce the position of secretary to judge in courts, including the courts of appeal; Develop the entities dealing with media and public communication; Reconsider the judge immunity, so as to ensure functional immunity only (replace the authorization system with the notication one, so as to exclude the need of approval of the Superior Council of Magistrates and President of the Republic of Moldova or, as the case may be, Parliament to initiate criminal actions against judges); revise the mechanism for recourse action of the state against the judge, by putting in place appropriate procedures taking into account the need to ensure internal and external independence of judges; Upgrade the status of certain legal professions related to the judiciary system, such as legal experts, administrators and judicial liquidators, authorized translators and interpreters.
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10 Government of the Republic of Moldova
Reform of the Superior Council of Magistrates:

Increase transparency in the work of the Superior Council of Magistrates, including in the decision making, and ensure public access to all materials underlying the decision; Revise the regulatory acts to make sure the decisions of the Superior Council of Magistrates are based on objective criteria and oblige the Superior Council of Magistrates to justily for such decisions; Introduce the obligation of the Superior Council of Magistrates to enforce a procedural norm for all cases, where the procedure of ruling decisions is not regulated in any law or regulatory act; Restrict the jurisdiction of the Superior Council of Magistrates over judicial inspection, in order to enhance the independence of the latter.
Reform of the Supreme Court of Justice:

Introduce unconditional appointment to the position of president and deputy of the Supreme Court of Justice through a presidents decree, based on the proposal of the Supreme Council of Magistrates; Change the criteria for selecting judges of the Supreme Court of Justice, in line with the requirements for the appointment of judges of the European Court of Human Rights. The Government will amend the legislation, thus reducing the age limit and seniority in the position as judge required to become a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice. The Government is also taking a stand in the possibility to appoint as judge (a certain number) persons that have no work experience as judge, but have legal higher education, are highly qualied and have experience in legal issues, legal education or research. Therefore, judges of the Supreme Court of Justice can be judges, professors of law or other professionals in law; Change the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Justice. The Government undertakes to amend legislation, thus reducing the competence of the Supreme Court of Justice as the only institution empowered to review the legal issues, and generalize national jurisprudence, in order to remove the legal provisions and practices that turned the Supreme Court of Justice into an appeal court; Put in place the exclusively written procedure before the Supreme Court of Justice; Reduce the number of judges of the Supreme Court of Justice.
Reform of the prosecution system:

Cause gradual granting of the magistrate status to prosecutors; Revise the duties of the prosecution and focus all eorts on criminal justice; Revise the procedure of appointment and dismissal of the prosecutor general, and thus leave no room for appointment on political grounds; Appoint the prosecutor general for long term without the possibility of being appointed for a new term;
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Introduce the obligation of the prosecutor general to report to Parliament on a yearly basis; Put in place a mechanism to prevent senior prosecutors from giving illegal instructions, in order to ensure internal independence of all prosecutors. Any instruction given to lower level prosecutors to change their opinions must be well-founded. In the case of illegal instructions, a procedure for appealing to the Superior Council of Prosecutors will be provided; Put in place the mechanism for appealing to the Superior Council of Prosecutors in order to prevent non-compliant prosecutors from being disposed of in sensitive cases; Review the liability rules for prosecutors and abolish their general immunity.
Reform of the system of administration of funds and resources of the judiciary:

Create a proper, consistent and sustainable mechanism for nancing the judiciary by increasing funding; improve the regulatory framework on the procedure of budget drafting and management in the judiciary; identify objective criteria to determine the operating and capital budgets of courts; put in place the judicial information system; develop performance indicators and use statistical reporting systems; put in place performance related incentives and sanctions; develop the capacities of courts and of the Ministry of Justice in nancial management, internal audit and public procurement; Prepare a budget for the judiciary according to objective and transparent criteria, based on organizational, administrative, technical, material and information needs assessment and performance; Develop the capacities of the Superior Council of Magistrates and Ministry of Justice for evaluating the budget of courts and monitoring their performance; Draft a medium-term plan of capital investments in repair works in order of their priority.
Review the criminal, civil and administrative procedures:

Change the competence of courts, so that the court becomes the rst instance where cases are heard, while the Court of Appeal, becomes the place for appeals or recourse, as the case may be; Revise the competence of the Supreme Court of Justice and that of the appeal courts; Put emphasis on the written procedure in civil, administrative and economic cases, similarly to the written procedure before the ECHR; Review the rules for the substantiation of decisions in the rst instance, appeal and recourse stages in order to facilitate work of courts by cancelling the obligation to substantiate decisions when this is not required for the protection of litigants or for the interests of justice;
* To ensure functionality of the prosecution, the intended reforms will not aect the stability of prosecutors holding the oce in line with the legislation in place.
Activity Program
2011-2014
Restrict the use of extraordinary ways to appeal and secure legal relationships; Restrict cases referred back by higher courts. Because of such returns, sometimes happening repeatedly and for formal reasons, examination of cases takes too long time exceeding any reasonable deadlines. In such cases there is a risk of ECHR nding that human rights have been violated; Revise the grounds for review in civil action in case there is a nal decision of ECHR keep only two grounds or discover new circumstances (similarly to the criminal procedure); Review the mechanisms that ensure application of preventive measures in accordance with the ECHR jurisprudence; Revise operation of the institute of investigating judges; Ensure equality of parties in criminal proceedings; Reconsider the participation of prosecutors in civil trials, including by preventing the prosecutor from intervening in civil disputes through appeals lodged after the expiry of the general limitation period; Put in place a simplied procedure for certain categories of minor disputes; Put in place norms and mechanisms to prevent courts from exceeding judicial power and arrogating legislative and executive powers; Review the procedural rules, including rules for submission of evidence, to make a clear distinction between the proceedings in rst instance and the appeal proceedings, so that only the claims and evidence submitted to the rst instance are examined in appeal proceedings; Review the procedural rules to ensure examination of cases in reasonable time, including by putting in place a mechanism to accelerate the process and keep the number of returned cases as low as possible; Restrict the possibility of an appeal court to rule repeatedly the reversal of a decision and send the case for retrial; Put in place an ecient mechanism to standardize judicial practice; Make the hearings consecutive, in order to ensure continuity and celerity of the trial.
Develop arbitration and mediation as alternative ways of dispute resolution:

Revise legislation, so as to exclude the conict between the provisions on arbitration, commercial trade arbitration and mediation and the provisions of the civil and criminal procedure codes; Build the functional capacities of the Mediation Council; Put in place the state guaranteed mediation mechanism; Introduce the obligation of judges to recommend arbitration in commercial litigations;
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Introduce the obligation of judges, prosecutors and lawyers to recommend mediation, guide the parties to turn to authorized mediators and insist, at all stages of the proceedings, on amicable conict resolution. When such a recommendation is made by the judge, the parties will gather in a free-of-charge meeting to be informed about the benets of such a procedure. At the end of the meeting the parties may decide to continue settling the dispute by mediation or to return to court.
Notary System Reform:

Restore the independence of the notary institute. The Government undertakes to enact new regulations on the notary system, that would ensure its proper functioning provide a clear and transparent mechanism for acceptance into the profession, ongoing training, control over performance and sanctioning of notaries; Revise professional organization of notaries; Put in place clear criteria for establishing the honorariums of notaries; Put in place objective and transparent criteria for determining the number of notaries, areas of activity, and conditions for changing the area of activity; Clear up the status of the notary and the status of trainees; Regulate notary procedures.
Enhance the bar institute and provide state-guaranteed legal assistance:

Proceed with enhancing the bar institute and the state-guaranteed legal assistance system. The Government will put in place a viable system of guaranteed legal assistance provided to vulnerable categories in all types of cases (criminal, contravention and civil); Ensure institutional development of the state-guaranteed legal assistance system and its interaction with the bar entities; Strengthen the system of lawyers specialized in juvenile justice; Revise the rules on lawyers liability for the damage caused to the client; Create a network of paralegal community services along with integrated social assistance services to provide primary legal assistance.
Guarantee execution of judgements by ensuring proper functioning of the execution system of judgements on criminal and civil matters:
Ensure the institutional development of the new private judgement execution system; Put in place mechanisms to avoid abusive and forced execution and excessive spending on execution; Ensure access of executors to databases to help them eectively perform their duties/ activities; Streamline the mechanisms of active involvement and sharing of responsibilities of creditors and debtors in the process of executing judgements;
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Enhance the mechanisms of disciplinary liability of executors; Revise the disciplinary mechanisms used to encourage debtors to voluntarily execute the writs of execution; Continue upgrading the prison system; Develop the probation institution.
Enhance the role of the Constitutional Court:

Revise the criteria for selecting the judges of the Constitutional Court. The Government undertakes to make amendments to the legislation, thus cancelling the age limit and seniority required for becoming judge at the Constitutional Court; Revise the procedures for examining constitutionality of acts.
d. Public Order, Security and Defence

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Improve the institutional, organizational and functional frameworks of law enforcement institutions. Make sure public order, security and defence institutions operate in line with the European requirements and standards. Develop mechanisms to secure and protect public and private property. Progressively implement the Ministry of Internal Aairs reformation concept. Amend legislation and make institutional changes in order to prevent the conict of interests, overlapping of competences and functions among public order, security and defence institutions. Reform relevant institutions dealing with the extension of the security and democracy environment in line with the European norms. Reform the security sector in line with the international standards. Identify solutions to the global and regional challenges that may undermine security of the country. Mitigate the risks and threats the Republic of Moldova is facing, including failure to settle the Transnistrian conict, deployed military and paramilitary troops beyond constitutional control in the Eastern rayons, which put the national security at risk.
6. 7. 8. 9.
10. Turn the Republic of Moldova into a state contributing to regional and international security, engaging pro-actively in the EU Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and in international peace keeping operations.
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Priority Actions: Ministry of Internal Aairs Reform:

Demilitarize Ministry of Internal Aairs; Improve the legal framework on police and carabineer troops (develop a modern regulatory framework on public order and ght against criminality); Assign clear competences to the entities subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Aairs (police, carabineers, criminal investigation) and implement proper principles to improve the institutional, organizational and functional frameworks; Partial decentralization of police services at the second level public authorities, bringing the police closer to citizens through quality services provided; strengthen the functions of the Patrol and Sentry Regiment Scut related to provision of public order services and ensure public order through decentralized and strengthened services provided by local public authorities of second level; Reform the training and promotion system for the sta of Ministry of Internal Aairs; Put in place the community policing principles, by delimitating between the competences of the national police and the local one and by putting in place the principle of institutional collaboration; Reform the carabineer troops by taking over all the functions related to public order maintenance and restoring from the police and through gradual shift to contract based service; Improve crisis management by designing and putting in place interaction mechanisms for all the authorities dealing with emergencies; Secure control of migration ows, goods trac; ght tracking in humans, drugs and weapons etc. on the Transnistrian segment; Upgrade the mechanisms for investigating violation of rights and interests of individuals and businesses; Design a new performance evaluation system for police and other units of the Ministry of Internal Aairs, in consultation with the civil society and communities, to increase police responsiveness to the problems faced by the community; Transfer the functions of the police court to the Ministry of Justice; Scale up partnership with the central and local public administration authorities, nongovernmental organizations and civil society; Develop disaggregated and accessible statistics related to performance of police agencies; make them public and accessible to the public.
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Reform of the Intelligence and Security Service:

Develop and put in place a modern reformation concept of the Intelligence and Security Service that would allow for sustainable development of capacities required for accomplishing its missions; Make legislative and institutional changes that would create conditions for ecient operation of the Intelligence and Security Service and successful accomplishment of its constitutional missions; Improve sta training and management systems in line with the modern standards, thus enabling sta to meet the informational and security needs of the country; Depoliticize the Intelligence and Security Service and implement an action plan meant to secure the national interests of the Republic of Moldova; provide better protection and safety of citizens; Reorganize the Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption that will keep its anti-corruption duties, while the rest of its functions will be transferred within three months to other specialized entities of the state, as part of their institutional reform.
National Security and Defence:

In the dialogue with the foreign partners address all challenges related to separatist and terrorist threats, proliferation of weapons and drugs, illegal migration, energy insecurity etc.; Build institutional capacities for analysis and planning in the area of national security; Conduct strategic analysis of the security and defence sectors of the country; Adopt the National Security Strategy and the National Military Strategy; Adopt national reformation strategies and policies for the national security system and the relevant political-legal framework and align them with the commitments undertaken and new challenges and tasks; Develop missing capacities and put in place the entire range of tools to exercise civil and democratic control over the national security sector, including by enabling mass-media and civil society to step in; Speed up implementation of the RM-NATO Individual Partnership Action (IPAP) seeking to ensure transparency and objective information; Ensure gradual professionalization of the National Army, so that it becomes able to cope with the new threats arising at global and regional levels that might aect national security; Ensure control over the national airspace, by developing national capacities and cooperation with foreign partners; Develop the capacities of the National Army for collecting and analysing information for national defence purposes.
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e. Strengthened National Integrity and Anti-Corruption System

1. 2. 3. Develop ecient legislative and institutional frameworks to prevent and ght corruption in the public system. Improve the public procurement system. Design the mechanism for cooperation between the public authorities, civil society and development partners to reduce corruption.
Priority Actions:
Annul the immunity of judges and members of parliament; Put in place electronic tools to curtail corruption in the public sector and increase transparency of the latter (public procurement, wealth and income statements, nes etc.); Tighten sanctions for bribery; design ecient corruption monitoring mechanisms; Make amendments to the legislative and regulatory and institutional frameworks in place, so as to reduce corruption; Reduce the red tape burden on businesses in order to leave less room for corruption; Improve the system of wealth and interest statements of ocials and the control over them; Improve the existing corruption prevention and ghting framework on declaration and control of income and assets of political appointees, judges, prosecutors, civil servants and certain ocials holding management positions; enact the Law on the protection of informers and put in place enforcement mechanisms; Increase personal responsibility of civil servants, by introducing performance-based contracts, and accountability for the serious cases of corruption that may even lead to dismissal; Build the capacities of the Court of Accounts as the supreme institution dealing with the audit of public funds; put in place a mechanism to make audit ndings useful; Create an informational tracking system of goods subject to excise tax; Prohibit classication of contracts signed by national institutions and companies where the state holds the biggest share; Create a corps of professional, upright and motivated civil servants to achieve good performance; Ensure transparency of public procurement, competition and prevent unfair competition in the area of public procurement;
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Ensure transparency in the process of privatization of public property and use of funds received from privatization, and mainly in the investigation of previous transactions in this area; Revise the petition system in civil service, by providing reliable information protection mechanisms and quick and trustworthy feedback;
Take long-term measures to curb underground economy:

create conditions to reduce the outow of cash from the economy, by encouraging the use of electronic money, remuneration and payments by credit cards, thus leaving less room for tax evasion; streamline the ght against economic crimes and corruption at institutional and legislative levels; build the capacities for preventing and combating counterfeit goods and piracy, in order to counteract unfair competition, protect health and safety of citizens, and fulll the commitments in the area of intellectual property.
f. Media Liberalization and Freedom of Expression

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Align the legal framework on mass media with the European norms and standards and enact a new Broadcasting Code. Reform and upgrade the Public Broadcasting Company Teleradio-Moldova. Ensure freedom of mass media and create favourable conditions for its operation. Encourage investments in the domestic media market. Provide real access to public information and encourage investigative journalism.
Priority Actions:
Align Moldovan legal framework on mass media with the European norms and standards; Continue the reformation of the National Broadcasting Public Company TeleradioMoldova, by improving its management and providing proper funding; Create adequate conditions for ecient performance of media-related entities (audit bureaus of circulations, audience measurement companies etc.); Provide autonomy to the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual and improve its performance as representative and guarantor of the public interest;
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Secure transparent issuing and withdrawal of broadcasting frequencies and evaluate their use according to the destination of terrestrial licences; Create equal conditions for Moldovan mass media institutions through rigorous regulation of retransmission of foreign channels; Put in place special provisions on transparency of media ownership and restrict concentration of media ownership; Immediate removal of the Fiscal Code provision obliging mass media to pay the 5% local advertising tax; Exempt newspapers, magazines and on-line media from the VAT on income gained from their work, regardless of the turnover; Encourage foreign direct investments in domestic media, as well as in other related areas; Put in place digital television and create opportunities for information from multiple national, regional and local TV and radio sources; Enact the new Advertising Law aligned with modern requirements and the need to develop a truly free media; Adopt new broadcasting development strategies to foster constant development of independent media in the Republic of Moldova; Annul the fees for obtaining public information.
g. Strengthened Civil Society and Cooperation with the Public Sector

1.
Develop the relevant legal framework to strengthen civil society as a mediator of citizens interests and partner of public authorities in the policy process. Develop the institutional framework required for ecient cooperation between the public authorities and the civil society. Create conditions to ensure nancial sustainability of non-government organizations.
2. 3.
Priority Actions:
Align the legal framework on non-commercial organizations with international norms; Reform the non-commercial organization registration and re-registration mechanism to ensure freedom of association; Develop legal framework regulating cooperation between the state and the civil society;
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Institutionalize participation of civil society organizations in policy making, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, including by creating clear and eective mechanisms for consultation and participation in the decision making; Scale up cooperation with trade unions and employers associations in policy making, by engaging them in existing Government - civil society dialogue platforms; Upgrade the legal framework on philanthropy, sponsorship and social entrepreneurship to ensure sustainability of non-governmental organizations and increase their independence; Develop the relevant legal framework to enable outsourcing of public services and community activities to NGOs; Develop an eective mechanism to implement the National Civil Society Development Strategy; Develop the concept of professional associations to advocate for the interests of dierent social groups, by engaging them in policy making and monitoring, through cooperation with the relevant public authorities.
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and Financial Policies

a. Business Environment
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Economic
Remove administrative constraints on businesses. Demonopolize the domestic market and eliminate anti-competitive practices in commercial transactions. Increase trust between the public and private sectors and guarantee the right to private property and investments. Provide conditions and access to credits to develop business environment; encourage development of capital market. Ensure increased income for Moldovan population and reduction of absolute and extreme poverty.
Priority Actions: Remove administrative constraints on businesses:

Speed up the regulatory reform, increase transparency of business authorization system, through clear denition of authorization procedures and requirements; reduce the number of areas subject to authorization; put in place the nomenclature of authorizations, permits and certicates issued by central administrative authorities and subordinated entities (implementation of the Guillotine 2 regulatory reform ); Revise the paid services delivered to businesses by public authorities; create a single Register of paid services and simplify their delivery (launch and implementation of the regulatory reform of paid services Guillotine 3); Restrict the extent and ways of abusive and groundless interference by the state in the work of businesses through legislative and institutional optimization of controls over businesses; ensure exhaustive delimitation of functions of the institutions dealing with control over the use of public funds, economic-nancial and scal activity, and the specialized ones and design a single inspection and control management system; Adopt the single-desk concept and implement it extensively at the existing single-desk at all levels. Implement the single-desk for statistical and nancial reporting, issuance of authorizations and delivery of services at the level of central and local governments, as well as for performing import-export operations and identify new areas where single-desks can be introduced;
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Continue simplifying procedures, reducing time and cutting costs for registration and authorization of businesses, by allowing for on-line submission of documents and issuance of certicates and permits at a single administrative body through a specialized electronic platform (integrated single-desk, government portal, trade register etc.); Revise, unify and optimize the licensing requirements and criteria; identify possibilities to optimize the number of types of activities subject to licensing; Enact relevant legislative amendments, and take administrative measures to simplify the winding-up process; Simplify the business registration procedures, by establishing a single fee for business registration; exclude the need for the founders of legal persons to submit the certicate proving that they have no debts to the budget, but maintain the requirement that the legal person must not have debts to the budget; Gradually introduce the statement on own responsibility in starting up and developing business; Put in place practices and international requirements in electronic trade, digital signature, etc. and revise the obligation of business to have and apply the stamp; Develop and extend the export institutional support network; strengthen the certication, quality and safety control institutions and encourage participation of national institutions in European organizations dealing with quality infrastructure; Draft a Code on constructions to cover and improve all construction procedures, and particularly the construction work authorization and delivery, by developing a single procedure for the construction completion documents; Reduce time and costs in constructions, by allowing for on-line issuance of encumbrance certicates and standardized property transfer documents, by eliminating notary authentication, by connecting the territorial scal, land and cadastral oces electronically, in order to simplify procedures and inter-institutional communication; Align Moldovan legislation on companies with the EU legislation, mainly on transparency of information, protection of shareholders, rights of employees and creditors, formation and maintenance of the social capital and dividend distribution, freedom of establishment and service delivery on the single community market; Develop public-private partnerships governed by the principles of market economy and free competition and ensure the support of governmental authorities in the initiatives to create public private partnerships in strategic areas for the country and society as a whole; Ensure eectiveness of state control over the natural monopolies in order to secure the interests of consumers and national economy.
Promote exports and bring in investments:

Reduce import-export restrictions and cut the red tape; Reform the Moldovan Export Promotion Organization (MEPO), by revising its tasks and
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operation, turning it into a dynamic entity, modelled according to similar organizations from the European Union countries; Encourage domestic investments by turning savings into investments; improve such tools like PARE 1+1, and provide new leverage; Scale up the political dialogue in order to facilitate access of Moldovan goods to various markets; Design instruments for funding investment projects in innovation and advanced technologies; Design the investment climate monitoring system to allow for immediate Government response to any distortion of the existing investment climate; Take full advantage of the economic potential of the free economic zones, Giurgiulesti International Free Port, Marculesti International Airport, and industrial parks; Put in place incentives for and support enterprises applying power saving technologies and companies producing and using alternative power sources; Facilitate visa and stay regimes for investors; Provide conditions for nancing business at reasonable cost; encourage development of the capital market; Encourage citizens to turn their savings into investments, by diversifying and developing the nancial tools, including mortgage; Develop the partnership between the state and international nancial bodies to attract credit lines and guarantee investments.
Demonopolize the domestic market and eliminate the anti-competitive practices in commercial transactions:
Improve the legal and institutional frameworks to ensure fair competition; Where necessary, take modern measures of trade protection, particularly countervailing and safeguard measures against imports distorting the domestic market; Develop and apply legal framework on competition, aligned with the European legislation and EU recommendations, to encourage collaboration of all market players with the decision makers in identifying and ghting unfair competition, by putting in place express sanctions for cases of violation of relevant legislation in parallel with the leniency program; Build institutional capacity of the National Agency for Competition Protection to improve its performance and increase its public responsibility; Ensure fair competition on the markets with monopolies or companies with dominant market positions and encourage entrance of new companies on these markets; Reduce state intervention in the highly competitive sectors, mainly through the privatization of the share of the state in companies in such sectors and by contracting the services delivered by the private sector.
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Increase credibility between the public and private sectors and guarantee the right to private property and investments: Conduct regulatory impact analysis of each draft of regulatory act on business and provide an operational platform for the public-private dialogue during the analysis process; Scale up the sectoral dialogue with the business associations in order to encourage joint drafting of sectoral strategies with clear objectives linked with the real development plans of the companies in the sector; Resume the activity of the State Commission for Entrepreneurship Regulation; Revive the National Commission for Collective Consultations and Negotiations and strengthen territorial and sector commissions.
b. Competitiveness Policies and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises

1. 2. 3.
Encourage the technological development of enterprises. Develop the support infrastructure for enterprises. Ensure conditions for the development of a knowledge-driven economy.
Priority Actions: Encourage technological development of enterprises:

Simplify the industrial certication procedures for the imported industrial equipment meeting the international and European industrial security standards; Encourage integration of enterprises into national/international technological clusters and put in place modern practices of industrial management; Support participation of enterprises in European quality-related programs and initiatives and their eorts to meet the ISO quality standards, and continue implementation of conancing programs in this area; Introduce personal administrative responsibility of ocials of government bodies for causing damage to economic agents.
Develop support infrastructure for enterprises:

Encourage innovation entrepreneurship: create conducive environment for the development of scientic-technological parks and innovation incubators, by improving the legal framework on their creation and operation; Revise the state policy of supporting technological research through decentralization, so that all innovation entities have free access to the budgetary resources provided for research, technological development and innovations;
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Provide grants for research and practical innovations to streamline the use of energy and natural resources; Support creation and development of small and medium enterprises by developing scientictechnological parks, innovation and business incubators, and other tools for encouraging innovation entrepreneurship, as well as creation of such units attached to higher education institutions to conduct applied research programs commissioned by the real sector; Improve the regulatory framework on industrial parks and create a network of industrial parks in the country regions, under favorable conditions provided by government; Create conditions to encourage high value industrial production; Facilitate coordination of horizontal and vertical cooperation and development strategies by each industrial branch, including cooperation between large and small and medium enterprises; Develop industrial cooperation, by identifying and taking specic measures to support industrial initiatives, including by creating clusters; Facilitate access of small and medium enterprises to public procurement contracts by facilitating access to the information about the procurement opportunities through electronic portals, encouraging the contracting public authorities to split contracts into pieces where possible and avoid disproportionate nancial requirements and qualications; Simplify the procedures of connecting industrial units to public utilities and networks; Capitalize the credit guarantee fund for small and medium enterprises; encourage citizens to turn savings into investments through diversied governmental programs, including by providing nancial support and implementing the PARE 1+1 Programme. Facilitate the access of small and medium enterprises to the public services delivered by the local government (for instance, street cleaning, maintenance of the housing stock, street lighting etc.); Encourage creation of new small and medium enterprises and support the existing ones through technical and nancial assistance programs of development partners, and netune those programs in order to align the nancing conditions with market demands.
Ensure conditions for the development of a knowledge-driven economy:

Amend the legislation on small and medium enterprises according to the European recommendations and implement regional and European support programs in this area; Change the state policy, so as to provide support to technological research to ensure free access of all innovation entities to the budget resources meant for research, technological development and innovations; Bring in resources and design tools to ensure funding of investment projects in the area of innovations and advanced technologies.
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c. Public Property Administration and Privatization

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Continue privatization of the state property in liberalized areas through open, publicly announced and transparent bidding. Put in place progressive privatization and public property administration methods. Develop and use the public-private partnership mechanism as a privatization tool.
Priority Actions:
Continue restructuring the public sector of the economy; Put in place principles of corporate governance at state owned enterprises; optimize size, structure, methods of public property administration; Reduce spending of state owned enterprises and joint-stock companies where the state holds the largest share; Seek transparency, simplicity and put in place an external system for supervising procurement of goods and services by state owned enterprises, mainly those of public interest; Achieve better use of public property by restructuring and changing the prole of unprotable enterprises, and seeking to establish public-private partnerships; Conduct regular reviews of the performance of state owned enterprises and companies where the state holds the largest share; monitor implementation of three-year business plans, restructuring plans and modernization plans of state-owned enterprises and companies where the state holds the largest share; Create nancial tools to support infrastructure and innovation projects, based, among others, on funds earned from privatization. Speed up privatization of state assets in a competitive and transparent process; continue privatization of economic agents on the List of state-owned property subject to privatization, and review the list; Encourage the public-private partnership in regional economic, social and infrastructure projects; Create a government public-private partnership network to enable coordination of all the activities in this area by the central public administration authorities and the PublicPrivate Partnership Unit of the Public Property Agency; Transfer the management of assets of enterprises where the state holds the largest share to foreign and domestic management companies; Provide access to information about the economic-nancial activity of enterprises where the state holds the largest share.
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d. Budgetary - Fiscal Policy and Public Finance Management

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Ensure stability of the national public budget, create a predictable budgetary-scal framework and keep the budget decit at a reasonable level. Promote a scal-budgetary policy focused on sustainable/inclusive economic growth by reducing public consumption and increasing productive public investments. Make sure principles like discipline, equity, transparency, simplicity and honesty are in place in public nance allocation. Reduce scal burden and simplify the taxation system.
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Priority Actions: Ensure stability of the national public budget; create a predictable budgetary-scal framework; keep the budget decit at a reasonable level, and strengthen scal and customs administration:
Correlate the budgetary-scal, monetary-credit, currency, investment and commercial policies to achieve sound development of the economic-nancial system; Improve the budget income and expenditures forecasting system in order to prevent countless amendments to the annual budget throughout the year, and improve development of budget-scal policies, by ensuring wide participation; Prevent the bloking of payments from the national public budget in order to increase the nancial sustainability of the budget and keep the taxpayers money in their economic ow; Put in place the tax statement system by using information technologies (e- declarations), so that at least 60% of the tax returns be lodged online; Apply program budgeting and increase exibility of budgetary spending in the context of the medium-term budget framework (3 years) at central and local levels; Increase the scal management and tax collection capacity , that will allow for the continuous grow of the share of tax revenues in the total revenue to the budget; Improve scal discipline and eliminate impunity, which hinders fair competition and causes prejudice to the honest economic agents and individuals that honour their scal commitments according to the legislation in force; Develop public-private partnerships to streamline scal management in the sectors facing increased risk of tax evasion; Put in place the 10-12% at income tax for businesses starting with 2012 and maintain the scal incentives in place before the introduction of the zero corporate tax.
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Activity Program
Simplify business registration procedures, by establishing a single registration fee; Improve scal legislation by clarifying and simplifying the primary legal norms, including by completing and applying Title X on social contributions and Title XI on customs tax of the Fiscal Code; nalize codication of scal legislation, by drafting and enacting Title XII on other taxes of the Fiscal Code; Simplify scal management by introducing information technologies, the single-desk, by using the banking system and relevant nancial payment tools and building institutional capacities of customs and scal entities; Achieve international commitments and implement bilateral treaties on double taxation, customs cooperation and information-sharing to prevent any forms of money laundering and tax evasion; Reduce the number of fees and taxes by means of consolidation; Simplify the scal and statistical reporting for small and medium enterprises and other organizational-juridical forms; Simplify and standardize the goods clearance procedures taking into account the experience of EU countries in this area; Align the amount of customs taxes and customs clerance duties with the practice and commitments to the international organizations to which the Republic of Moldova is a party (World Trade Organization and World Customs Organization) and implement the EU recommendations in this eld; Put in place norms and international standards in the customs area in order to reduce duration and costs incurred by economic agents for customs clearance of goods; Align the national regulatory framework with the EU standards and practices by adopting an overall and non-discriminatory approach to rules of origin and apply them to all the companies countrywide without exception, including to free economic zones; Scale up interaction in scal and customs management in order to reduce administrative and control burden on businesses; Continue ecient dialogue with the international nancial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund and donor countries; Put in place ecient tracking system of controlled documents and classied documents issued by the state and consider creation of a State Printing House. Promote a scal-budgetary policy focused on sustainable/inclusive economic growth by reducing public consumption and increasing productive public investments: Put in place the practice of paying the income tax to the budget of the locality where the taxpayer (individual) resides; Ensure the stability, predictability and transparency of the scal policy and procedures applied on taxpayers, by adopting and enforcing the Fiscal Procedure Code and the Customs Procedure Code;
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Optimize and reduce customs taxes on imported raw material, auxiliary material and technological equipment and increase such taxes on imported end-products, directly competitive with the domestic ones; Evaluate and reduce on a regular basis the quasi-scal incomes to the budget, generated by the paid services delivered by public institutions; implement the third phase of the regulatory reform (Guillotine 3). Improve VAT and excise administration mechanisms; speed up VAT and excise refund from the national budget; Simplify the procedure for compensating debts to the budget by overpaying for other taxes, mainly in relation to import/export operations, covering the VAT to be paid with the VAT to be refunded; Enforce primary legal norms on the refund of the VAT related to capital investments in Chisinau and Balti municipalities, by establishing a minimum ceiling of VAT beyond which VAT refund would be possible; Amend the Fiscal Code, so as to allow for the use of VAT amount to be refunded to extinguish future liabilities to the national public budget; Consider the possibilities to encourage technical updating of enterprises by improving the VAT mechanisms; Eliminate the fees paid by enterprises for specialized funds and use transparent subvention mechanisms; Streamline provision of subventions in agriculture, by targeting the areas with high potential of value added production, in order to increase agricultural productivity and competitiveness of agricultural products; Revise the system of taxation and payment of social and healthcare contributions by patent holders.
Make sure principles like discipline, equity, transparency, simplicity and honesty are in place in public nance allocation and simplify the taxation system:
Put in place clear-cut principles of redistribution of national budget income to the budgets of administrative-territorial units, thus leaving no room for political bias. Consolidate the existing policies on uniform distribution of funds and subsidies; Achieve eciency, transparency and accountability of the use of public funds, including in public procurement; Conduct institutional reform of the Public Procurement Agency, develop new procurement techniques, increase eciency and ensure application of EU recommendations, through the devolution of powers and creation of an independent national entity to deal with appeals. Invest the funds gained from privatization of public assets in social and economic infrastructure.
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e. Agro-Industrial Policies
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Upgrade agriculture and reduce its dependence on adverse climatic factors. Align relevant regulations with the EU food safety regulations. Improve the subvention system in agriculture and implement multi-annual programs. Put the agricultural assets back into use and facilitate the access of investors to these assets. Improve the quality of the human capital in agriculture by stimulating the institutions specialized in agriculture. Stop the degradation of land resources by upgrading and extending the land improvement system.
Priority Actions: Upgrade agriculture and reduce its dependence on adverse climatic factors:
Introduce and promote the national symbol of quality for the products meeting the highest quality standards on the domestic market and the external ones; Create favorable environment for business development and encourage investments throughout the whole food chain; Ensure food safety of the country; develop the food safety strategy of the Republic of Moldova in line with the main EU recommendations; Ensure transparency in the procurement of agricultural products for the national reserve; Align the regulations in food area with the EU practice, by drafting and approving sanitary and phyto-sanitary norms, in line with the European norms; Encourage insurance against losses as a result of natural disasters in agriculture; Create conditions for putting in practice the European experience with legislation and provide nancial support in the implementation of green technologies: biomass, biodiesel, bioelectricity, solar and wind energy; Support and encourage soil conservation, including by implementing conservative farming (no-till and others), in order to reduce erosion of farmland; encourage growth of high value products and ecological crops, in order to use the productive potential of lands; Encourage application of modern irrigation technologies, in order to use water resources most eciently; Conduct the census of agriculture and create the Digital Agricultural Register.
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Streamline measures to support food sector:

Improve the subvention system in agriculture, by encouraging high value production, in order to increase productivity and competitiveness of agricultural products; Ensure transparency of allocation of nancial resources from the agriculture support fund and provide free access to the information about the recipients of subsidies provided by government; Provide subsidies for the creation of units for processing, handling and storing agricultural products, farming machinery and equipment, creation of the infrastructure for collecting agricultural products, provision of agricultural raw material, establishment of perennial plantations, units for producing seeds, seedlings and reproductive material; Eliminate all government subsidies for tobacco cultivation provided in national legislation; Remove unnecessary barriers to the export of agricultural products and simplify the export procedures of agricultural and food products; Develop and apply a program to encourage and support long-term and mortgage crediting in agriculture; Make it easier to change the use of low quality farmland; Make institutional reorganization in sanitary and veterinary area, by complying with the overall concept of food safety systems development and EU norms; Provide government subsidies for the production of seeds and establish an advanced system of phyto-sanitary and quality control of imported and exported seeds and planting material.
Develop the agriculture infrastructure and improve human capital quality:

Encourage the development of market infrastructure, by creating countrywide centres (terminals) of food products and local food markets; Encourage development and upgrading post-harvest technologies; Reform the institutions dealing with agricultural research, by optimizing and reorganizing them and scale up training of specialists in this area.
Align national food legislation with that of the EU, in order to develop the food sector and ensure food safety:
Take full advantage of the opportunities provided by the EU Autonomous Trade Preferences and conduct negotiations on the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU, follow the EU advice on products of animal origin and allow export of such products; Conduct negotiations and implement the RM-EU Agreement on the protection of geographical indications. Encourage national industries and thus develop the national system of private and state intellectual property to be protected abroad;
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Align food safety legislation with that of the EU, by developing and approving relevant sanitary and phyto-sanitary norms; Harmonize legislation in order to obtain the status of registered third country eligible for facilitated access of most agricultural products on the EU market; Put in place an alert system for food and access the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed; Design a system for informing about the epizootic situation in the country and ensure adequate supervision and control of animal diseases.
f. Infrastructure and Transport

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Liberalize and develop transport markets. Rehabilitate and upgrade the transport infrastructure in general and road infrastructure in particular and connect to the pan-European networks. Manage in a responsible and ecient manner the transport system; develop and improve passenger and goods transport; Introduce compulsory road safety audit; improve road safety and reduce road accidents. Promote the Republic of Moldova as a transit country and align domestic transport with the European transport requirements. Ensure energy security and promote energy eciency in all sectors of the economy. Develop the constructions sector and encourage the use of modern technologies in this area.
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Priority Actions: Transport and Infrastructure Policies:

Develop a countrywide transport and communications space, connected at regional and European levels; Develop strategies of transport and communications market development, in line with the relevant EU policies and advice; Consult the transporters in formulation of transport policies and determine the road construction and rehabilitation priorities; Ensure sustainability of medium-term capital investments and contribute to building nancial capacities of local authorities, mainly in order to maintain the local road networks;
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Build the Road Fund capacities and ensure constant rise of its share in GDP; Encourage and channel investments in the construction of modern international transport corridors, particularly the IX pan-European corridor; Encourage public-private partnerships in the rehabilitation, modernization, construction and maintenance of the transport infrastructure, including by enabling international companies, which can provide the necessary funds for quality infrastructure projects, to carry out public works, provided that the Government has the possibility to collect subsequent payments for the use of that infrastructure; Improve road safety by applying modern road maintenance and reconstruction technologies and ensure compliance with trac rules, by putting in place, among other things, modern road trac management systems; Apply modern road infrastructure maintenance and reconstruction technologies to improve road condition; Encourage transparency on the transport infrastructure construction market; Liberalize and develop competition on the market of railway transport services; consider conceding railways to the private sector. Develop shipping, extend the commercial shipping eet and ensure constant development of Moldovan ports; Create a free market of ight services; demonopolize maintenance services and attract lowcost airline companies (low-priced airline tickets); join the European Common Aviation Area; Encourage and support airline companies, so as to take advantage of the opportunities of turning international airports into regional hubs, by increasing the passengers and goods trac and applying more ecient methods of bringing in private investments; Create an ecient and independent ight safety institutional framework.
Ensure energy security and eciency: Diversify the primary energy supply sources:
in terms of natural gas: ensure creation of reserve stocks and alternative interconnections with the neighbouring countries based on feasibility studies; in terms of electricity: encourage investments in the rehabilitation and upgrading of interconnection lines with Ukraine; extend the interconnection with Romania; build own capacities for generating electricity by encouraging investments in the upgrading of the existing ones and in green-eld projects; provide support in the identication of alternative energy production methods by implementing investment projects related to renewable energy;
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Take advantage of all the opportunities provided by the Energy Community Treaty, including by complying with the EU directives and bringing in investments; Interconnect Moldovan power system to the ENSTO-E1; Support modernization of the power system so as to achieve ecient energy use and reduce energy intensity of the economy, particularly in agriculture; Encourage energy conservation, mainly by developing and providing funds for programs for heat rehabilitation of buildings; Integrate the Republic of Moldova into the European energy market, by linking policies, harmonizing the energy regulations, joining the European specialized organizations and bringing in European investments; Build the institutional capacities of regulatory authority for energy; ensure transparency and good governance in the energy sector; Ensure viability and ability of the heating system to develop, through its economic, institutional and technica l restructuring; Bring in investments in the energy infrastructure of the country by building public-private partnerships; Ensure operation of the Agency for Energy Eciency and create the Energy Eciency Fund; Reduce energy intensity and energy consumption in all the areas of the national economy, by approving and implementing the 2010-2020 National Energy Eciency Program.
Develop constructions sector:

Draft the constructions sector development strategy; Develop the legal and institutional frameworks on constructions and align them with the European requirements; Enforce legislative and regulatory framework helping to prevent and overcome the impact of the world economic and nancial downturn on the constructions sector; Support production of construction materials in line with European standards, mainly environment and health protection norms; encourage implementation of quality management systems in construction materials industry; Encourage the use of modern technologies in the production of construction materials and at construction sites; Develop quality infrastructure in constructions, by bringing in foreign assistance to create and equip testing laboratories to assess conformity of construction products; Facilitate the use of innovations and new technologies in constructions and implement building performance standards; Create conducive environment for the development of enterprises in the development regions, by facilitating the access to nancing and business infrastructures.
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g. Quality Infrastructure, Industrial Security and Consumer Protection

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Align all regulations in the national economy areas with the European ones and enforce them in line with the requirements in these areas; Scale up eorts to develop the National Standardisation System consistent with the European Standardisation System and the International Standardisation System and build the institutional capacities of the national standardisation entity; Enhance the National Accreditation System and institutionally develop the National Accreditation Organism in order to align it with the European standards, so as to sign the Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA) with the European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA). Adopt and promote European metrology standards in order to enforce the European institutional, legal and regulatory provisions, as well as the traceability of measures, the measuring tools and standards; Provide proper legal framework to secure population and environment against possible accidents at dangerous industrial units and create conditions to improve performance in industrial security area; Ensure high level protection of consumers. Build market supervision capacities.
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Priority Actions:
Build the capacities of the regulatory institutions and of the National Standardization Organism in aligning national legislation with the European one and adopt the European harmonized standards, so as to ensure 50% transposition of European harmonized standards on the national ones; Develop plans to enforce the national technical regulations harmonized with the European ones and monitor their enforcement; Scale up international and European cooperation on standardisation by means of the National Standardisation Organism and involved institutions; Align the national legal and regulatory frameworks on metrology with the European practice, by transposing the European New Approach directives; Provide proper regulatory-technical framework aligned with the European practices to establish the security requirements for industrial security related activities; Develop and enforce the legal framework, resulting from the enforcement of EU legislation on registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals in the EU;
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Develop the legal framework on consumer protection in line with the acquis on consumer protection; Build the institutional capacities in consumer protection, including by creating the National Agency for Consumer Protection until January 1, 2012, that will take over all the control functions and duties related to defending rights and consumer safety; develop and apply the relevant regulatory framework. This institution will deal with the protection of ordinary consumers; Build the market supervision capacities and put in place the country-wide market supervision coordination mechanism; Revise and develop the national system of laboratories for testing quality and safety of marketed products in general and food products in particular.
h. Information and Communication Technology

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Develop the ICT sector, so as to serve as a starting point for turning the Republic of Moldova into a knowledge-driven society. Speed up the e-transformation process thus supporting the European integration agenda of the Republic of Moldova. Promote the ICT toolkit and put it in place to achieve better governance, education and research, public health, diversication of the electronic content and digitalization of cultural heritage, electronic trading development. Liberalize and develop the communications markets. Develop integrated and eective communications infrastructure (electronic and postal), in order to improve competitiveness of the national economy and ensure access of all categories of users to the services of the information society.
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Priority Actions:
Provide a legal, scal and regulatory framework able to speed up the information society development plans, priority being given to the infrastructure and electronic services plans; Streamline management of electromagnetic spectrum, .md domain and numbering resources so as to create opportunities for investments and information and communication service development;
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Align domestic legislation with the EU acquis and adopt the European standards in the following priority areas:
electronic and postal communications; electronic trading and signature; information society services;
Adopt the e-transformation roadmap as a development platform driven by innovation, knowledge and technology; Improve electronic communications security, protection of personal data and privacy; Put in place operation mechanisms for the Universal Service that ensures access to communication and information means; Extend the access of rural communities to broadband electronic communication infrastructure; Achieve increased penetration of PCs in households and education institutions; Establish public-private partnerships for e-transformation and bring in domestic and foreign investments in the ICT sector; Develop and implement sector e-transformation programs; Ensure free competition on the market of electronic communications; Restructure the joint stock company Moldtelecom, thus making sure that all the players on the market have fair and transparent access to infrastructure; Optimize the taris and diversify the ICT services; Encourage the use of modern electronic communications technologies; Upgrade the ICT education system by improving educational standards, building partnerships with private companies, excellence centres and innovation laboratories; Create IT and innovation parks to bring in investments and technologies; encourage the start-up and development of new companies; Encourage partnerships between the education institutions and ICT companies; Make the transition from analog television to the digital one; Encourage production of domestic digital content; Provide a legal and institutional framework conducive to the development and use of ebusiness platforms, electronic trade, goods delivery services; integrate into similar European and global systems; Encourage and implement ICT research and innovation programs and initiatives, achieve integration of the Republic of Moldova in the ICT global market and apply the international standards and regulations in this area; Develop the export capacity of the ICT sector.
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and Efficient Public Administration

a. Central Public Administration Reform
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Accomplish in-depth restructuring of central public administration in order to create an ecient, functional and sustainable institutional framework, governed by law and committed to delivering quality services to population. Ensure a transparent, fair, eective and ecient decision making. Achieve governance transformation and better performance of public administration, including by using ICT; cut the red-tape and de-concentrate the public services. Implement the electronic governance and electronic services for citizens. Develop a meritocratic civil service, made of civil servants recruited, assessed and promoted based on professional skills and performances.
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Priority Actions: Institutional Restructuring:

Restructure ministries, agencies and other institutions under the Government and disband the less ecient public authorities, optimize the functional operation and cut administrative costs; Continue the internal reorganization of central administrative authorities based on clear objectives and assessment of the available resources of the authority, in line with the Strategic Development Program; Update the strategic development programs of each ministry in line with the new challenges of the European Neighbourhood Policy, Eastern Partnership and commitments to be laid out in the future Association Agreement, and take denite measures to implement them; Introduce the position of State Secretary in ministries. The State Secretary will be a professional and will enjoy stability, regardless of the changes in Government membership;
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Create the Control Team of the Prime Minister in the State Chancellery to ensure timely and eective fullment of tasks assigned to central public administration authorities; Reform the Academy of Public Administration and align it to higher education institutions; Improve the management of state-owned companies, by reviewing the procedure of appointment of members to their boards and release companies from the obligation to delegate representatives of specic ministries to boards. To achieve most ecient management, adopt a case by case approach to membership of administration boards; Complete and enforce the new law on central public administration and the Administrative Procedure Code; Regulate organization and administrative procedures, in line with the European good decentralization and deconcentration practices, by enacting new legislative and regulatory documents on the central public administration and administrative procedures; Legislative regulation of relations, rights and obligations of local public administration authorities and deconcentrated services.
Decision Making Reform:

Ensure transparency of the decision making, including by posting all the drafts of decisions on the websites of central administrative authorities; Enlarge the dialogue and consultation platforms with the civil society in policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as one of the many tools (conferences, round tables, seminars, meetings, advertisements on the websites of central administrative authorities, joint surveys and inquiries); Ensure the access of citizens to public information, cut the red tape and administrative costs by applying e-governance tools, including by developing and improving the websites of central and local public administrative authorities and by computerizing public services; Develop and implement the ow systems of documents and normaty acts, including by putting in place systems for electronic registration, distribution and monitoring of documents, as well as by improving petition management; Build civil servants policy formulation and implementation skills, including by implementing ex-ante policy impact analysis; Improve the tools for collecting and sharing data about the main monitoring and evaluation indicators of national policies, including by making the statistics and databases public; Improve decision making consistency and the link between the public policies and budget funds by putting in place program budgeting; Build policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation skills within line ministries and improve civil societys understanding of the strategic planning process; Improve intra- and inter-ministerial communication and consultation.
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Upgrade Public Services:

Conduct in-depth analysis of the public services delivered by central administrative authorities; identify the public services with the strongest impact on the vulnerable groups and businesses; Develop and implement an overarching public services reformation program; Put in place minimum quality standards for the public services and a quality monitoring/ evaluation system, as well as tools for ling complaints about the poor quality of public services delivered; Develop the methodology for transparent and fair pricing of public services, and create independent specialized regulatory institutions dealing with tari calculation; Design the State Register of Public Services drawing on the experience of advanced democracies.
Civil Service Reform:

Improve quality of civil service by applying competition-based employment in civil service, by institutionalizing a merit- and skill-based recruitment, appraisal and advancement system and by putting in place punishments for poor performers and dishonourable behaviour; Promote mobility in public administration to encourage competition and innovation, including through secondment; Put in place performance management systems for the human resources in public administration, by implementing occupational standards; Put in place the new job classication and grading grid in civil service, and reshape the civil servants pay system in line with the new grid, so as to motivate civil servants and make the link between pay and skills, responsibility and performance; Provide on a regular basis eective training to civil servants, public administration managers, and technical and support employees. Focus the Academy of Public Administration on delivery of training to civil servants and other employees of central and local public administration; Provide short-, mid- and long-term education and internship opportunities in prestigious education institutions abroad, designed to meet the training needs of civil servants in one area or another; Liberalize training services and allow business and non-governmental sectors to deliver such services to civil servants; Move ahead with the depoliticization of public administration and ensure stability of civil servants by preventing political interference.
2011-2014
Activity Program
b. Decentralization and Local Autonomy

1.
Develop proper legal, regulatory and institutional frameworks in line with the principles of decentralization, democracy and local self-government. Channel rights, responsibilities and nancial resources to the local public authorities, in line with the European Charter of Local Self-Government and build their administrative capacities. Enhance nancial and patrimonial independence of local public authorities. Encourage cooperation and territorial consolidation of territorial-administrative units.
2.
3. 4.
Priority Actions:
Approve the National Decentralization Strategy, draft and approve sector decentralization strategies; Align the legal framework with the constitutional principles of decentralization of public services and local self-government, as well as with the provisions of the European Charter of Local-Government; Develop and enact a legislative package on the status of Chisinau municipality, clearly dening the duties of the municipal council and those of the general mayor; Review the competences of local public authorities of rst and second levels in line with the decentralization principles; Ensure decision-making autonomy (no interference from other public authorities), organizational autonomy (approval, under the law, of the status, internal administrative units, sta lists, organisational chart etc.), nancial and budgetary autonomy (free use, under the law, of own resources, by adopting own local budgets) for local public authorities; Ensure stability in civil service and make use of the individual experience; guarantee the exercise of the rights and obligations of employees in local government, applying the principles of professionalism and performance; Design the integrated informational system of the central and local governments; Design the mechanism of enforcement of legal provisions on the administration of the patrimony of territorial-administrative units; Draft methodological norms on local patrimony tracking, by putting in place a single and generalized register of the properties of territorial-administrative units; Revise the system of local public nance, in line with the constitutional principles and European standards on local self-government;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Reconsider the income and spending system in place in local public authorities, as well as the whole process of drafting, adopting, administrating and executing local budget; Improve the local budget planning mechanism; Clearly dene the responsibilities of executive authorities of the local government of rst and second levels and deconcentrated public services related to local public nances; Establish norms on state revenue breakdown by local budgets; Develop formulas for direct transfers from the national budget to local budgets; Improve the legal framework on local government borrowing and build the capacities of local government in loan management; Create mechanisms to encourage inter-municipal cooperation and territorial consolidation; Establish objective criteria (size of the administered region, population, local funds, average income per capita) that would determine the number of residents in a territorialadministrative unit; Put in place an institutional and legal system to provide ecient tools to enable population to hold local government to account; Put in place mechanisms to facilitate participation of population in decision making, to ght corruption, to guarantee equity and ght discrimination; Identify legal ways to hold local councillors to account in order to strengthen relations with the citizens and improve performance of local councils; Design an ecient mechanism of devolving competences to local governments depending on the administrative capacities of the communities. Finalize delimitation between the functions of the central government and those of the rayonal (district) governments, by applying mechanisms of decentralization and deconcentration of public services; Exclude the political factor in the allocation of funds to local authorities.
c. e-Governance at Citizens Service

1. 2.
Use information and communication technology and thus turn the Republic of Moldova into a modern, advanced, interactive state. Develop the national e-Governance platform and the national electronic system by creating electronic services and extend access of population to the digitized public services. Improve the information infrastructure of the public sector and ensure e-Governance information security, better communication and coordination among central, rayonal (district) and local government agencies.
3.
2011-2014
Activity Program
Priority Actions:
Adopt and implement the Strategy for governance transformation through information and communication technologies and the Public Sector Technological Modernization Action Plan, as platforms and conditions enabling emergence of competitive digital economy; Implement e-services in education, health, social protection, agriculture, along with all eservices compulsory in the European Union; Develop and implement the legal framework on e-transformation and e-governance in line with the best international and EU practices; Put in place 3 e-Government delivery models: Government-to-Citizen, Government-toBusiness and Government-to-Government; Apply principles and standards of public services interoperability in line with the international best practices; Achieve technological upgrading and professionalization of public administration, by implementing e-governance and on-line services for citizens and businesses (e-procurement, etaxes, e-customs, e-health, single electronic services portals for citizens and businesses etc.); Create a platform enabling electronic voting and support participatory democracy through electronic systems, regardless of where the citizen is at the moment of elections; Deliver certain public services online to all citizens, including the elderly and the disabled; Make public procurements online in order to improve the public procurement process, reduce corruption and eciently use public money; Connect education institutions, museums, libraries, archives and healthcare institutions to Internet through broadband Internet channels and create specialized information networks; Enforce the Law on Access to Information and Transparency in the Decision Making by posting open government data online so as to allow for the use of such data by other electronic systems; adopt the Access to Open Government Data Initiative, that will apply to all Moldovan public authorities; Adopt Digital Agenda - EUROPE 2020 and the 2011-2015 EU e-Governance Action Plan in the Republic of Moldova; Introduce the practice of not requiring data from citizens/businesses that the state already holds, by applying the Directive 2003/98/CE of the European Parliament and Council of Ministers on the re-use of public sector information in the Republic of Moldova.
d. Local and Regional Development

1. Encourage initiative at local/regional levels and promote the culture of cooperation between central and local public authorities.
2011-2014
Activity Program
2.
Minimize regional discrepancies in development by implementing investment projects and stimulating economic growth in the deprived regions. Achieve balanced regional development by ensuring consistency between the national sector policies and the local economic development policies.
3.
Priority Actions:
Enact legislative-regulatory framework: role of regional development institutions and relations between them; regional development management; funding system for regional development projects; introducing the notions of Deprived Area and Risk Area in regulatory acts, criteria for dening such areas; Align the National Regional Development Strategy with the regional development strategies of the North, Centre and South regions, in order to improve territorial planning and identify most appropriate places for investments; Create by 2012 the regional development agencies Chisinau, TAU Gagauzia and Transnistria; Improve the mechanism for funding regional development from the national budget through the National Fund for Regional Development; Ensure ecient and economical use of funds channelled to regional projects in line with the decisions made by relevant authorities and with accountability standards; Diversify the tools and mechanisms for funding regional development projects; Facilitate and provide support to local public authorities in applying for funding under European trans-border cooperation programs and other external funds; Encourage various types of partnership for the implementation of regional projects: central public authorities local public authorities foreign donors; local public authorities national agencies foreign donors; public-private partnership; Facilitate cooperation between the local, rayonal and central authorities, as well as between the National Council for Regional Development, regional councils and regional development agencies in order to integrate the local and regional development plans and projects with the sector and national ones; Provide support to local public authorities in developing realistic community/rayon development policies and build the capacities of dierent local players for implementing such policies, including through experience-sharing with other localities and national methodological tools; Bring in external funding to develop human and institutional capacities in the area of regional development; Reduce regional disparities, including by creating conditions for the development of nonagricultural business in rural areas (agro-tourism, services, handicrafts, small industries etc.);
2011-2014
Activity Program
Encourage investments in the development of public utilities infrastructure (water and sewage systems, sanitation, natural gas supply, environment protection, tourism development etc.); Establish the National Rural Development Programme that will provide mechanisms and tools to develop towns economic growth poles; develop the metropolitan area concept.
e. Foreign Assistance Coordination

1. 2. 3.
Put in place a functional institutional and regulatory system to build the foreign aid absorption capacity. Achieve better targeting of foreign assistance, in line with the national priorities, national institutions and systems. Achieve better coordination and synergy in foreign assistance programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Priority Actions:
Make sure the Inter-ministerial Committee for Strategic Planning is operational; revive sector councils coordinating foreign assistance, and create the Joint Partnership Council to serve as a high level dialogue platform in this area and make sure it is functional; Formulate foreign assistance priorities in line with the key national development documents and taking into account the proposals formulated in a wide consultative process and dialogue between the public authorities, development partners, private sector and civil society; Put in place the national foreign assistance monitoring system and make sure it is operational; Ensure diversication and extension of technical and nancial cooperation with external development partners; Encourage transparency and meet the requirements related to the process of informing about, making public and monitoring the use of external assistance received; Empower the Court of Accounts to audit projects with external funding; Accounts ensure proactive attitude throughout the implementation of Development Partnership Principles agreed by the Government and the key development partners; Put in place accountability mechanisms for the authorities directly involved in the implementation of projects funded by international donors (assume responsibility for the implemented projects and for their results); Conduct information campaigns on foreign assistance and its role in the multidimensional development of the Republic of Moldova; Build the State Chancellery institutional capacities in the area of foreign assistance.
2011-2014
Activity Program
Foreign
Policy
1.
Implement a consistent and dynamic foreign policy to promote the national interests of the Republic of Moldovan and create a positive image of the country. Scale up the dialogue and cooperation with the EU member states in order to speed up political, economic, social and legal reforms seeking to align these areas with the European standards and thus to become eligible for EU membership. Improve bilateral relationships and multilateral cooperation, promote good neighbor relations and develop strategic partnerships with the EU, Romania, Ukraine, Russian Federation and the USA. Take full advantage of the cooperation potential with China, Japan, India, Turkey, South Korea and other rising global and regional players. Carry out internal reforms in relevant areas and take political-diplomatic actions to make the Council of Europe cease the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova and shift to the post-monitoring phase. Promote an active economic diplomacy in order to create conditions for sustainable economic growth of the country. Protect the rights and interests of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova abroad. Enhance the institutional framework critical to the success of the foreign policy.
2.
3.
4. 5.
6. 7. 8.
Priority Actions: European Integration:

Actively involve the whole society, all the political forces and relevant foreign actors in the eorts to turn the Republic of Moldova into a European state with real prospects of joining the EU; Acquire and promote European values and standards in all areas, including by accomplishing the commitments made within the Council of Europe; Create adequate conditions for political and economic integration in the EU by signing the Association Agreement, in line with the provisions of the Eastern Partnership;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Hold negotiations on and implement the provisions of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU; Implement the Visa Liberalization Action Plan that will allow for the free movement of Moldovan citizens in the EU; Implement the actions laid out in the EU-RM Mobility Partnership; Align the national legislation with the EU acquis in the context of the negotiations on the Association Agreement, and other agreements under negotiation between the Republic of Moldova and the EU and, in the context of the visa liberalization process; Improve the legal and institutional framework supporting European integration; Take full advantage of the opportunities provided by the Eastern Partnership, on bilateral and multilateral dimensions alike; Ensure energy security of the country using EU tools and join the European energy market; Develop and implement strategies of communication (internal and external) on European integration issues with the civil society, EU actors and international ones.
Develop bilateral and multilateral relations:

Develop mutually benecial relations and build strategic partnerships with the EU, Romania, Ukraine, the USA and Russian Federation; Unlock the existing potential in the bilateral relations with Romania. Stimulate the political dialogue and improve the multidimensional cooperation mechanisms; Continue developing the bilateral legal framework bearing in mind the interests of both states; Put in place interaction mechanisms in issues related to European Integration, meant to help acquire the expertise of Romania in this area, including in terms of legislation harmonization and implementation of the EU aquis, in line with the European Strategic Partnership Declaration; Revive trilateral cooperation projects and revitalize cross-border cooperation; Scale up the bilateral political dialogue with Ukraine and revive the mechanisms of cooperation and consultation in areas of shared interest: economic cooperation, Transnistrian conict, European integration, energy security, regional and international cooperation; Develop closer cooperation with Ukraine under the 5+2 format of negotiations and other Moldova-Ukraine bilateral and Moldova-Ukraine-EU trilateral mechanisms to secure the border and nd a sustainable political solution to the Transnistrian conict; Regulate property relations based on mutual interest; Identify solutions, in line with the European practice, to the problems related to border demarcation;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Develop bilateral relations with the USA governed by the following principles:
support to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova; support for the development of the Republic of Moldova as an independent, sovereign and democratic state able to contribute to regional and European security and stability;
Compact Program implementation:

development of economic cooperation between the Republic of Moldova and the USA through the Deep Bilateral Investment Agreement; exclusion of the Republic of Moldova from Jackson-Vanik Amendment;
Develop the relations with the Russian Federation governed by the principles laid out in the Basic Political Treaty, signed in 2001 between the Republic of Moldova and Russia; Build bilateral relations governed by principles like sovereign equality, mutual respect and mutually benecial cooperation; Enhance the bilateral political dialogue and economic relations governed by pragmatism, predictability and mutual interests; Scale up cooperation with the Russian Federation under traditional negotiation mechanisms, in order to identify a comprehensive and viable solution to the Transnistrian conict, securing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova; Develop the political, economic and cultural relations with the EU member-countries; Intensify political and diplomatic actions to achieve recognition by the EU member-states of the European prospect of the Republic of Moldova; Intensify cooperation with each of the EU countries, mainly by sectoral areas of interest to both parties and under EU programmes, to help the Republic of Moldova take over the community aquis; Develop bilateral relations with the European partners, mainly with Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Belgium and Holland; Enhance the relations with the new EU member-states (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Slovenia) and make full use of the assistance provided for country European integration, including the experience shared by these countries; Enhance the relations with Azerbaijan and Georgia, that share the same interests of democratic and economic development within GUAM and Black Sea areas; An important trend of the Moldovan foreign policy will be the cooperation with China, Japan, India, Turkey and South Korea and other rising global and regional players with emerging economies. In this sense, the Government will seek to enhance and extend the trade relations, to create conditions to bring in investments and technical assistance. In
2011-2014
Activity Program
parallel, eorts will be made to cover the geographical areas with potential for cooperation, such as Israel, Central Asia countries, Arab countries etc.; Align global, regional and sub-regional cooperation with the national political and economic interests of the Republic of Moldova and objectives of the Government Program, aiming, above all, at supporting the European integration agenda; Encourage the political dialogue and cooperation within the Commonwealth of Independent States in order to take advantage of the opportunities it provides in relation to the free movement of people, development of trade, social area and cultural-humanitarian exchanges. Sign a multilateral agreement on the creation of a free trade zone; Scale up political, security and trade cooperation with/within the organizations from the Central, South-East Europe, Danube and Black Sea areas, to which the Republic of Moldova is a party; Enhance partnership relations with NATO;
Global and regional organizations, such as UN, OSCE and Council of Europe will continue to serve as an important platform for promoting countrys national strategic objectives such as: European integration, democratization and modernization of the country, regaining territorial integrity, consolidation of sovereignty and independence of the Republic of Moldova. From this perspective, the Government will act, mainly by:
using the UN relevant structures to support and rearm the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova and bring in technical assistance able to support the internal reforms; promoting the national interests in collaboration with OSCE, given the efforts to revive the conventional arms control regime in Europe.
Economic Diplomacy: The economic, trade, investment and energy security dimensions will serve as key criteria for dening our foreign policy priorities. In this regard, the Government will seek to:
Facilitate and encourage development of economic relations with other countries and promote national economic interests, focusing mainly on promotion of exports and competitiveness of Moldovan companies and products, bringing in investments, foreign capital and know-how, strengthening, extending and regaining foreign markets; Ensure unrestricted access to priority markets and obtain incentives to encourage Moldovan exports, coupled with the promotion and protection of the commercial interests of Moldovan businesses; Support achievement of national energy objectives, by facilitating and identifying new opportunities from outside;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Facilitate participation of the Republic of Moldova in regional energy cooperation, as well as in energetic projects critical to the Central and South-East Europe and in the Black Sea area, including, among others, interconnection of the national energy and natural gas pipeline system to the European one.
Enhance the institutional framework critical to the success of the foreign policy and protection of the rights and interests of citizens abroad:
Improve the legal framework on diplomatic service; Build the institutional capacities of the Ministry of Foreign Aairs and European Integration and government entities engaged in the European integration process, with the support of the European Commission and EU member states; Continue improving performance of the Ministry of Foreign Aairs and European Integration through consistent application of professionalism, transparency and meritocracy principles; Engage civil society in formulation of strategies and programs related to foreign policy, European integration, national security, communication etc.; Defend the interests of Moldovan citizens abroad and deliver quality consular services; Simplify the consular activities and procedures in general and documentation of citizens abroad in particular. Facilitate the access of the citizens to such services, new ways of providing consular assistance will be considered and put in place (expand the number of distance-delivered services etc.); Improve and extend the honorary consulate institute; Enhance the bilateral dialogue with the countries with large communities of Moldovan citizens and sign proper agreements to secure their social protection; Develop a wide policy to support Moldovan citizens living abroad; create a proper institutional framework and develop an action plan to support them.
2011-2014
Activity Program
Reintegration
1. Identify a viable and sustainable solution to the Transnistrian conict,
Country
under the 5+2 format negotiations, governed by the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova.
2. Create conditions propitious for the real integration of the Transnistrian
region in the economic, information, political, social and cultural areas of the Republic of Moldova.
3. Mobilize our external partners eorts in the process
of Transnistrian conict settlement.
Priority Actions:
Develop a country reintegration strategy and implement the policies coordinated by the national institutions dealing with this area; Re-launch the 5+2 negotiations on Transnistrian conict settlement; Bring forward and keep the Transnistrian conict issue on the agenda of external partners and relevant international organizations; identify ways of increasing the role of the EU and the USA in nding a solution to the Transnistrian conict; Undertake condence building measures; enhance inter-human relations, engage the residents of the region in the transformation and Europeanization of the Republic of Moldova; Take internal and external actions to ensure respect for human rights in the Transnistrian region; Create proper conditions for the removal of all existing obstacles to free movement of persons, goods, and services between the two banks of the Nistru River; Develop a dialogue with the administration, businesses and civil society in the Transnistrian region in order to create conducive environment for country reintegration; Develop and implement joint projects, including with the support of external partners, which would lead to better life of population on both banks of the Nistru river and would create propitious environment for the 5+2 negotiations; Make eorts towards the withdrawal of foreign military troops from the territory of the Republic of Moldova in compliance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, international commitments and principles of the national and international law;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Scale up eorts to turn the current peacekeeping operation into an international multinational mission of civil observers; Continue eorts to secure the Transnistrian segment of the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, including with the EUBAM Mission support; Build the institutional capacities of the Reintegration Bureau.
2011-2014
Activity Program
and Research
a. Pre-university Education
1. 2. 3. 4.
Education
Improve the relevant legislative framework in line with the European norms and latest global trends. Improve quality of education through a balanced approach to academic interaction and preparation of students for life. Ensure the access of all Moldovan citizens to education in general and preschool education in particular. Achieve more ecient use of allowances, better material and technical basis, high teaching eciency and provide adequate pay to the employees in the education sector. Promote inclusive education so that no disabled child or/and with special needs is left out of the education process. Diversify and encourage extra-curricular education. Ensure congruence of formal, non-formal and informal education.
5. 6. 7.
Priority Actions:
Develop, enact and apply new the Code of Education; Regulate the status of teaching sta; Reformulate the school concept and upgrade school infrastructure; Encourage lifelong learning; Resize the kindergartens and schools depending on the number of children and students in each locality, taking into account the available demographic forecasts; Reform vocational education; Optimize and streamline public spending on education; Upgrade the educational management system; Revise the school curriculum in line with the international standards; Encourage education of national minorities in their native language;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Promote the Inclusive Education Concept to ensure access of disabled children and children from socially vulnerable families to quality education; Reorganize the system of residential institutions by implementing children deinstitutionalization policies and programs; Develop and implement a National Program for ghting the rate of school dropout; Encourage English learning at all education system levels; Improve the initial and ongoing training of teachers in the light of the requirements of child centred education; extend the training components related to communication with parents and community, implement new evaluation and teaching methods.
b. Higher Education and Research

1.
Revise the regulatory framework on higher education drawing on the experience of advanced countries and in line with the demands of the real sector of the national economy. Ensure quality teaching and research in higher education institutions through adequate nancing, wide structural and content reforms, encouraged university autonomy. Ensure structural and nancial balance between the higher education and research institutions in order to ensure competition and, consequently, improve the quality of research and innovation. Focus the academic science and innovation policies on building the competitiveness capacity of the research and innovation system in line with the principle of the knowledge-driven economy.
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3.
4.
Priority Actions:
Transition of higher education institutions to self-sustainability; Align the teaching workload in higher education institutions with the advanced practice of the European countries; Revise the higher education system, so as to achieve improved performance of education facilities, ecient use of budget funds and integration into the European academic network; Encourage participation of the Republic of Moldova in mobility programs; Concentrate research in higher education institutions and focus it mainly on nding solutions to the existing problems in the real sector of the economy; Improve the legal and institutional framework on research and innovation, so as to make it more ecient and align it with the European requirements;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Develop research in higher education institutions, by scaling up cooperation and partnerships on basic and applied research with the European and international funds and institutions; Implement programs stimulating young researchers and encourage repatriation of scientic diaspora; Encourage public-private partnerships to implement research projects and activities aimed at developing the national capacity of producing and taking up advanced technologies; raise the awareness of businesses of the importance of science and innovation; Encourage scientic and technological cooperation with external partners, including with large transnational companies (in the country and abroad), that would provide access to advanced research and high technologies; Strengthen the university centres, by promoting excellence in teaching and investigation in line with the socio-economic needs of the country.
c. Initial and Ongoing Training of Human Resources

1. 2.
Ensure equitable access of population to initial and ongoing professional training. Develop a professional training system able to provide competitive human resources required on the labour force market.
Priority Actions:
Revise the regulatory framework on initial and ongoing training of human resources; Develop the Concept and mechanism of HR orientation, initial and ongoing training; Develop indicative budget-nanced enrolment plans for Bachelor Degree (cycle I) and Master Degree (cycle II) and secondary vocational studies, bearing in mind the demand on the labour force market and the demographic situation; Ensure wider access and equal opportunities for skill development, quality training and education; Ensure the access of the disabled to quality vocational studies; Apply gender principles to admission to initial and ongoing training; Recognize prior learning and qualications obtained abroad by migrants; decide on the authorities in charge of this issue; Design a single initial and ongoing training system wherein the public education institutions deal with initial training, while the private education institutions deal with ongoing professional training, including non-formal education; Make training exible, by creating multidisciplinary training institutions and engage the private sector in production internships;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Engage the social partners in training evaluation; Design mechanisms to engage the direct beneciaries in the ongoing upgrade of training curricula; Develop consistent dialogue between the Government, education institutions and businesses to tailor the curriculum to the arising needs and standards on the labour market and the demands of the knowledge-driven economy; Encourage youth to be innovative and enterprising, by upgrading the education system in general, and school curriculum in particular and by focusing on entrepreneurship and delivery of practical knowledge and skills that entrepreneurs need; Encourage Moldovan students and teachers join the international academic network and facilitate participation of managers in European and international training and experience exchange programs; Encourage post-graduate training nanced by employers to prepare employees for a modern economy.
2011-2014
Activity Program
of Population
1.
Health
Make sure all Moldovan citizens have access to quality public health, healthcare and pharmaceutical services, including for the purpose of achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Monitor performance of all providers of healthcare services and health insurance companies; formulate and apply minimum quality standards; curtail administrative corruption in the health sector. Revise the legislative and regulatory framework on nancing, resource allocation and delivery of healthcare services in line with the provisions and advice of the World Health Organization and EU standards. Develop and put in place mechanisms to ensure and control quality of healthcare services delivered to population, by developing the human, technical and material potential and providing public healthcare institutions with proper medical and laboratory devices, medicines, advanced technologies. Increasing citizens responsibility for their own health, preventing the risk factors, protecting health are the key priorities in protecting the population exposed to real or potential risks for health.
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5.
Priority Actions: Carry out multi-sector activities to inuence the determinants of health:
Reduce discrepancies between rural and urban areas, by channelling investments to rural areas; Intensify community eorts in promoting a healthy lifestyle; Reduce the impact of harmful factors and risks of the occupational, habitual and social environment, including by engaging mass-media in encouraging population to lead a healthy lifestyle; Ensure access of the population to quality, ecient, harmless and aordable medicines (costecient); Encourage transparency of and accountability for healthcare-related decisions at all health system management levels; monitor and assess performance of the healthcare system, consult local public authorities, civil society, private sector etc. in any healthcare related decision; Encourage the policies aimed at halting the exodus of sta from the health system;
2011-2014
Activity Program
Revise the health sector regulatory framework, so as to remove the provisions that leave room for corruption and cause systemic ineciency and inconsistency between investments and the value obtained in the health sector.
Upgrade primary healthcare for family and community:

Achieve institutional autonomy of primary healthcare, including through direct contracting of physicians oces by the National Health Insurance Company; Upgrade the health insurance concept; Establish on a yearly basis the healthcare services packages covered by the National Health Insurance Company and constantly raise allocations for the compensated medicines; Make a clear distinction between the healthcare services nanced from the national budget and the paid services, by informing the population about the delivery of such services; Increase the role of local governments in the nal stage of decentralization by implementing nancial contribution mechanisms at local level to upgrade the territorial healthcare institutions; Create a system of quality control of healthcare services; Revise the medical sta training, motivation and employment policies, including in public health and pharmaceutical assistance areas.
Reorganize and tailor the hospital healthcare to the needs of the population:
Revise the legislative and regulatory framework on hospital healthcare, and develop alternative services, community and home care;
Reorganize the network of public hospitals in order to achieve eciency, effectiveness and deliver secure and quality healthcare services, in line with the National General Hospital Plan:
initiate and implement in stages the regionalization of hospital healthcare, by creating inter-rayonal (zonal) and regional hospitals; create a performance centre based on the Republican Clinical Hospital, and reduce, in parallel, overlapping of services and rationalize the network of public hospitals in Chisinau municipality; reorganize the oncology service;
Develop and enact the appropriate regulatory framework to develop the rehabilitation service in the Republic of Moldova; Upgrade the technical-material basis of the hospital sector at rayonal, municipal and republican levels; Increase the role of the private healthcare sector in the nancing and delivery of services through developed public-private partnership.
2011-2014
Activity Program
Implement programs to reduce impact on health:

Promote universal iodization of salt and our fortication with iron and folic acid; implement public health programs recommended by the World Health Organization to prevent deciency of micronutrients in women and children; Reduce risks, prevent and combat smoking, alcohol abuse and illicit consumption of drugs by taking complex measures, including cross-sector ones; Conduct wide campaigns and programs to encourage healthy lifestyle; Carry out prevention and development activities in the area of mental healthcare services based on community principles; Improve the supervision and control of infectious diseases by implementing the immunization program and other preventive measures, including preventive treatment, as well as early detection of infectious diseases, particularly the ones caused by new pathogens; Continue supporting the national public health programs, including by reducing the burden of chronic diseases and cardiovascular and oncology pathologies on population health, by implementing prevention, assistance and treatment programs; Apply licensing of activities, certication of specialists and accreditation of healthcare institutions through universal methods that ensure diversication and quality of healthcare services delivered to population.
Develop pharmaceutical assistance area:

Encourage the Moldovan pharmaceutical industry, by broadening the range of medicines and phyto-therapeutic products produced, by creating joint export-oriented enterprises; Regulate the pharmaceutical market and promote transparent pricing and purchasing of medicines with public funds; Enhance the medicine quality control system; create modern analysis and control laboratories approved by the EU; Increase access to pharmaceutical services in rural areas.
Wide participation of all health sector partners:

Encourage private investments in the health system and create conditions for engaging the private sector in the areas ineciently covered by the public sector; Engage the non-governmental sector, as a valuable partner, in order to make sure that the vulnerable groups in the Republic of Moldova have access to support, care and treatment services; Engage professional organizations and the beneciaries of the health services (including patients) in health policy development, implementation and monitoring; Develop community health and social services and home care services.
2011-2014
Activity Program
Social
a. Social Assistance
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Policies
Improve quality of life; reduce poverty, inequality and inequity in the society. Target socially vulnerable categories and people with low income through social assistance programs. Reduce and eliminate ineciencies of the social protection system. Ensure access of population to quality social services. Ensure social inclusion of the disabled people.
Priority Actions:
Develop a social assistance system based on the assessment of individual needs of individuals/families in need; Draft relevant regulatory framework and develop the institutional one to implement the family support service countrywide; Increase the amounts of one-time birth allowance and monthly child care allowance; Put in place the mechanism for providing housing with the right of temporary use to residential education graduates and families with children in need; Develop the institutional and functional capacities of local governments as tutelary authorities in order to ensure respect for childrens rights; Provide protection and monitoring of children left without parental care; Prevent institutionalization and streamline deinstitutionalization, by developing family-type social services; Develop the relevant regulatory framework to provide quality social services; Design and put in place a mechanism for the accreditation of social service providers and procurement of social services; Put in place social inspection; Design the automated social protection information system; Gradually substitute the targeted compensation system with the social assistance system
2011-2014
Activity Program
based on means testing and needs evaluation, with an increase of the guaranteed minimum monthly income of vulnerable families; Provide support to vulnerable families for the cold season of the year; Put in place community work and/or public works mechanisms to reduce dependence on social assistance; Develop a network of social assistants, by putting in place an ecient recruitment, training, promotion and appraisal mechanism; Create conducive conditions for fair and ecient channelling of social protection resources to the disabled; Develop the individualized home care service network; Ensure smooth and consistent transition from the medical model to the social inclusion of the disabled; Link the disability grading system with the evaluation of vitality and work capacity; Recover the work capacity of the disabled and help them become independent from other people, by integrating them in the society; Align the national legislative-regulatory framework with the European and international standards on the protection of the rights of the disabled; Reorganize the entities and institutions dealing with coordination of the social inclusion of the disabled; Develop sustainable partnership with the civil society, by engaging civil society organizations in the delivery of social services.
b. Social Insurances
Governance objectives:
1. 2. 3. 4.
Enhance social protection of insured individuals. Ensure nancial sustainability of the public social insurance system. Remove inequities in the public social insurance system and unjustied privileges for certain categories of pensioners. Establish proper regulatory framework to develop the supplementary pension system.
Priority Actions:
Revise legislation on retirement, and create common conditions for provision of pensions for all categories of citizens based on the social insurance contributions; Revise the pension and state allowance indexation system;
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Activity Program
Clearly dene the risks against which the individual can be insured and the insurance rate for each risk; Exclude any spending for other purposes then social insurance benets; Provide the necessary conditions for designing a supplementary pension system (private, professional, for individuals exposed to harmful working conditions to receive pensions in advance, nanced from this system or to benet from pension rises); Build the institutional capacities in supervision and regulation of private pension funds, so as to increase their sustainability and credibility; Reconsider the compulsory social insurance contributions of employers and employees; Develop a strategy of gradual shift to the cumulative pension system; Extend the obligation of paying mandatory social insurance contributions to all persons working in the the Republic of Moldova; Revise the mechanism of providing social insurance benets in case of temporary disability; Design a social insurance mechanism for the people who take care of people with severe disabilities.
c. Labour, Employment and Labour Migration

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Revise the labour regulatory framework, so as to provide a balance between rights and interests of employers and employees. Improve the pay system of the national economy. Provide full and productive employment and work conditions for all citizens. Prevent any form of discrimination on the labour market; reduce gender disparities and discrepancies between regions in terms of employment. Enhance the national migration management system, provide conditions for legal migration and improve the social status of migrant workers. Facilitate reintegration of migrant workers returned home.
6.
Priority Actions:
Make current labour legislation more exible and align it with the demands of the market economy; Revise the employee dismissal procedures;
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Apply the EU Directives on labour relations, labour security and health to national legislation; Enhance social protection of poorly paid employees of the public sector through gradual pay rises and revision of the Standard Pay Scheme; Finalize the implementation of the public sector pay system provided in the Law no. 355XVI of December 23, 2005; Design and put in place a new pay system in civil service, that will make the link between pay and competences, responsibility and performance; Put in place a standard pay system for military personnel, enlisted and commanding corps employed in national defence, security and public order bodies, based on monthly wages; Raise the state minimum wage guarantees; Scale up eorts to increase the registered wage share and mitigate the negative phenomenon of payment of wages in an envelope, double accounting and under-the-table work; Identify policy solutions to diminish the phenomenon of informal employment; Make forecasts about the labour force market and, on a regular basis, collect and process the information related to the labour force market;
Provide support to the individuals looking for a job by:

implementing active, ecient and well targeted policies on the labour market; building the skills and increasing the resources of the National Employment Agency, Labour Inspection and their territorial entities in order to provide adequate support to people looking for a job and ensure the rights of employees; conducting professional training and entrepreneurial skill development programs for dierent categories of population;
Revise the legislative framework, so as to facilitate implementation of the employment policy; Ensure social protection of the unemployed and take relevant measures to provide adequate work incentives; Carry out skill development activities for the unemployed, so as they dont lose contact with the labour market; Provide conditions for putting in place an ecient employment mechanism for the disabled; Follow the gender equity principle in the implementation of the employment policy; Facilitate employment of young professionals; Deliver professional and technical training, as well as training of entrepreneurial skills, mainly for unemployed young people;
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Apply public employment schemes for temporary employment, carry out emergency public works and use other job schemes; Support creation of new jobs and encourage investments in the sectors with intensive employment; Ensure portability of social security rights of migrant workers, by negotiating and signing bilateral agreements on social security with the host countries; Extend legal opportunities of employment for Moldovan citizens abroad, by signing bilateral agreements on labour migration with the destination countries; Implement joint initiatives with the destination countries aimed at facilitating the return of migrant workers and their reintegration on the Moldovan labour force market, including under the Moldova-EU Mobility Partnership; Inform the migrants and potential migrants on the ways and opportunities of legal migration and employment, as well as on their return and reintegration on the Moldovan labour market; Encourage reintegration of migrant workers returned home by providing counselling and support in terms of recognition of skills acquired and starting up their own business; Create conducive environment to bring in remittances in investment projects for sustainable development.
d. Gender Policies
1. 2. 3.
Increase the rate of participation of women in the decision making and in political and public entities. Ensure equal opportunities in the social-economic area. Implement the 2010-2015 National Program on Gender Equality.
Priority Actions:
Align the national legal-normative framework with the Law on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men; Improve performance of the Government Commission for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, by extending its mandate; Enhance the gender units in all ministries, central and local governments; Encourage active participation of women in the decision making and in public entities; Take actions aimed at removing all cultural and social stereotypes related to the roles of men and women in the society;
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Activity Program
Promote the positive models of the roles of women and men in society, in line with the democratic and gender equality values; Eliminate the discrimination of women on the labour market, in the social-economic, cultural and political life; Align national legislation with the equal opportunities standards and mechanisms; Revise the legislative framework on prevention and combating of domestic violence, in line with the relevant European standards; Enhance the institutional mechanism for encouraging gender equality at central and local levels; Ensure protection of the victims of domestic violence through ecient execution of protection ordinances by law enforcement bodies; Ensure access of victims of domestic violence to assistance and rehabilitation, by providing support in the development of specialized services for the victims of domestic violence and assistance centres/services for aggressors in domestic violence; Develop the system of free-of-charge legal counselling and assistance provided to victims of domestic violence; Build the capacities of the specialists dealing with domestic violence cases; Encourage non-violent education and build the capacities of the school system for timely detection and prevention of cases of domestic violence, as well as nding solutions to them; Improve the mechanisms for sanctioning the employers for disregarding the equality of chances principle; Engage men in prevention and combating of violence against women, including domestic violence; Extend and enhance the National Referral System for Assistance and Protection of Victims and Potential Victims of Tracking in Human Beings; Sanction the persons in charge of domestic violence prevention and combating for failing to full their duties established by law; Develop the curriculum and training materials for the initial and ongoing training of social assistants, public order sta, family physicians, prosecutors, judges, lawyers.
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e. Demographic Policies
Consistently address the demographic challenges in order to reduce population decline and create conducive conditions for population growth, in terms of quantity and quality, making the link between the demographic security and the economic and social security for development purposes.
Priority Actions:
Approve and implement the National Demographic Security Strategy, giving priority to policies aimed at boosting the birth rate, reducing morbidity and mortality rates; Ensure ecient management of population ageing issues; include the objectives of adapting to changes in population structure and improving the quality indicators of the human capital for better productivity in the development strategies; Encourage family and intergenerational solidarity policies; Implement policies aimed at fostering gender equality in order to ensure sustainable population growth; Reduce inequalities in the distribution and territorial structure of population in order to ensure balanced regional development; Create the Demographic Centre in the Academy of Sciences to deal with research and scientic evidence for demographic policies, identication of monitoring and impact assessment mechanisms; Put in place a single mechanism for demographic projections to be used in development and planning programs; Enhance the institutional framework for demographic policy making, implementation and monitoring.
f. Social Partnership
1. Develop social partnership at national, branch and territorial levels. 2. Actively engage the social partners in labour and social-economic policy development and implementation.
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Activity Program
Priority Actions:
Hold tripartite consultations among the social partners on labour-related and socialeconomic matters at national, branch and territorial levels; Encourage the social partnership at all levels; Maintain cohesion, peace and social stability; Encourage participation of civil society in the implementation of national policies; Mitigate conicts between social partners at national, branch and territorial levels; Consult with the social partners countrywide all drafts of regulatory acts on labour and social-economic matters.
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Activity Program
of National Minorities
1. 2. 3. Preserve and develop the cultural and linguistic heritage of national minorities living in the Republic of Moldova. Implement a coherent and multidimensional state policy in relation to national minorities. Revise the legal framework, so as to facilitate integration of national minorities in the social, administrative, cultural, political and economic life of the Republic Moldova.
Integration
Priority Actions:
Develop the legal framework focused on the protection and development of cultures and languages of national minorities living in the Republic of Moldova, including promotion of teaching in the languages spoken by the national minorities in pre-university education institutions; Develop and implement a State Program to create the necessary conditions for the study and use of the ocial language of the Republic of Moldova by national minorities, including civil servants and local government ocials; Revise the existing legal framework on the relations between registered ethno-cultural communities and the state; extend cooperation and joint activities; align existing practices with the international and European norms; Encourage the social cohesion programs with the support of ethno-cultural institutions registered in the Republic of Moldova; Provide opportunities for receiving education in native language and preserving the cultures of national minorities; Develop and encourage the relations with Moldovan diaspora abroad.
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Activity Program
Culture
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Develop contemporary art as a means of promoting and asserting national culture, both at domestic and international levels. Revive cultural activities and restore cultural infrastructure, mainly in the rural areas. Provide funding for cultural activities, in line with the set priorities, including through projects. Encourage culture as a key to preserving and developing national identity. Promote the national cultural values as part of the European cultural heritage.
Priority Actions:
Protect and integrate the national cultural heritage into the system of European cultural values, by providing a strategic vision on the medium term development of culture, ensuring rehabilitation and maintenance of historical-cultural objects through publicprivate partnerships and by digitizing the cultural heritage of the Republic of Moldova; Develop the legal framework on the protection, conservation and promotion of the value of cultural, historical and archaeological monuments and encourage the active involvement of individuals and businesses in activities focused on the preservation and development of national cultural heritage; Drafting a single strategy for developing culture and protecting national cultural heritage, which will contain a Program for reconstructing and promoting the value of cultural and historical monuments, providing support to cultural establishments and rehabilitating infrastructure, linked with the economic, social, educational and urban development programs; Improve the national cultural heritage management capacity through adequate management; Preserve and use the cultural resources, including by providing a framework for ecient cooperation between public institutions, religious organizations, NGOs and local government for the purpose of promoting, conserving, presenting and studying the cultural heritage;
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Activity Program
Create a Consultative Council attached to the relevant Parliament commission in order to ensure wide participation of all stakeholders in the decision making on cultural policies; Develop contemporary art, by creating conducive conditions, supporting art education and infrastructure, facilitating access and encouraging wide participation of citizens in the cultural-artistic processes, drafting and enforcing Law on Art Unions and the Statute of artists, thereby providing eective support to artists and art; Upgrade and diversify the services delivered by art institutions, develop local cultural uniqueness, by upgrading performance of houses of cultures, providing equipment and connecting libraries to Internet; Reform the culture nancing system, an namely ensure transparency in the development, management and use of the budget provided for culture, revise the pay system in culture sector and establish a minimum amount of allocations for culture in the budgets at all levels; Provide proper funding to culture and arts, including by identifying mechanisms for encouraging investments in this area; Deliver training to human resources to prepare them for the new economic conditions; Connect the cultural phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova to the regional and international cultural circuits.
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Activity Program
and sport policies

a. Social Integration of Youth and Development of Their Potential
1. 2. 3. 4.
Youth
Create conditions for the full use of youth potential in the political, social, economic and cultural life. Ensure access of youth to education and information services. Create conditions for starting up and developing businesses and creating jobs for youth. Build the human and institutional capacities of youth associative sector.
Priority Actions
Full use of youth potential in political, social, economic and cultural life: Encourage employment of well-trained youth in central and local government; Encourage participation of youth and youth organizations in the decision making; Encourage youth volunteer activities; Develop self-government structures of schoolchildren and students; Enhance the network of local youth councils; Design mechanisms for facilitating procurement of housing by youth.
Ensure access of youth to education and information services:

Develop in youth those skills that are required on the labour market; Develop an integrated curriculum for vocational orientation of teenagers and professional counselling of youth; Improve the educational process, by computerizing education institutions and promoting electronic education services (online education, online libraries, educational software etc.); Build and upgrade student dormitories through public-private partnership programs; Put in place a mechanism for providing grants and credits to young people to cover education costs based on social criteria and performance;
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Activity Program
Encourage development of partnerships between Moldovan education institutions and the foreign ones, to foster mobility of students in the international educational space; Provide free-of-charge access of young people from socially vulnerable families and the institutionalized ones to education and professional training; Build and rehabilitate school/university camps in all rayons (districts) through publicprivate partnerships; Develop the system of social scolarships and professional orientation of socially vulnerable young people.
Create conditions for starting up and developing businesses, thereby creating jobs for youth:
Develop and implement the National Young Entrepreneurs Start-up and Development Program; Provide support for the development of online businesses started by young people (ex.: free-of-charge .md domains, hosting etc.); Revise the regulatory framework on business start-up and development by youth; Provide information, consulting and training to young entrepreneurs; Develop assistance services to facilitate the professional orientation and employment of young people; Encourage businesses to hire young people; Encourage cooperation between employers, central public authorities, education institutions and youth organizations.
Build human and institutional capacities of the youth associative sector:

Revise the legislative framework on youth and align it with the European standards; Encourage cooperation between the public authorities and youth associative sector, in line with the co-management principle of the Council of Europe; Build the capacities for bringing in foreign technical and nancial assistance by developing the potential of the youth associative sector and that of the professionals dealing with youth policies at local and central levels; Develop youth infrastructure at local and national levels (youth centres, youth local councils, youth newspapers and radio channels etc.); Increase the budget for youth activities and revise the legal framework on provision of grants for young people; Enhance the partnerships with the youth structures of international organizations (Council of Europe and European Union) and increase the role of the Republic of Moldova in youth policy development in South-Eastern Europe;
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Activity Program
Encourage youth mobility and exchanges; Reduce the exodus of youth and create conditions for the return of youth; Prevent illegal migration of young people by conducting national information campaigns; Develop services intended for young people related to healthy lifestyle, leisure and prevention of violence and abuse .
b. Physical Exercise and Sports

1. 2. 3.
Encourage healthy lifestyle. Rehabilitate sports infrastructure. Support professional sports.
Priority Actions:
Revise the legal framework on sports; Encourage regular and ongoing physical exercise of children and adults; Develop and implement a National Healthy Lifestyle Program with the involvement of sport and education institutions, NGOs, public authorities and institutions, mass-media and donors; Bring in investments in the sports area, by improving and developing the legal framework encouraging public-private partnership and sponsorship; Develop the culture of physical exercise and sport practicing at national and local levels, by fostering funding by businesses, international bodies, regional structures, donations and grants by individuals and businesses; Conduct various local and zonal competitions in dierent types of sports for dierent social and age categories, including for the disabled and sports veterans; Provide support to dierent sport types contingent on their value, tradition and development degree at national and international levels; Encourage national sports; Improve the mechanisms for supporting professional sports, as well as the mechanisms for interacting with specialized organizations; Monitor training of national teams for the Olympic Games to take place in London in 2012 and Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014; Create and enhance the local government units in charge of physical education and sports;
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Activity Program
Encourage private initiatives related to the rehabilitation and extension of the club network, creation of sports sections and centres, rehabilitation of sports grounds, leisure facilities; Encourage construction and/or upgrade of training complexes of national teams, including through public-private partnership; Build, within a public-private partnership, a Republican Stadium, Sports Palace and Aqua Centre in Chisinau municipality; Build, within public-private partnerships, at a national level, multipurpose halls in line with the geographic principle; Provide support for psychological and physical rehabilitation of injured professional sportsmen; Identify increased social protection mechanisms for the veterans of sports; Provide support for sports medicine and research in physical education and sports areas; Extend and diversify the bilateral and multilateral relations of cooperation related to sports, including by delegating representatives of the country to the boards of federations, associations and other international sports organizations, to commissions of international bodies, as well as by promoting referees to ociate Olympic, world and European competitions.
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Activity Program
Environment
Protection
a. Climate Change and Use of Natural Resources
1. 2. 3.
Provide an adequate framework for environment protection and sustainable use of natural resources. Reduce the negative impact of businesses on environment, natural resources and population health. Improve citizens information, education and ecological culture.
Priority Actions:
Revise the existing environment legislation, in line with the EU requirements, directives and standards; Encourage corporate responsibility of businesses in terms of environment quality and protection; Enhance institutional potential in environment protection and sustainable use of natural resources; align the waste management policy with the European standards; Improve the measures meant to prevent environment pollution by raising the awareness of population and incorporating environment protection requirements in the sector policies of the national economy and the territorial ones; Take water resource protection and drainage measures; Encourage conservation, perpetuation and protection of biodiversity; Extend and protect the state-protected natural areas, and to do so draw on the European experience in ecient management of natural resources; Achieve transparency and eciency in the management of the National Ecological Fund; Implement a national program with technical measures related to the evaluation and nancing of the cost of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, in line with the Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) and Kyoto protocol (1997); Upgrade and streamline the national system for monitoring the status and evolution of hydro-meteorological conditions and environment quality;
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Activity Program
Extend the protected areas by creating national parks, in line with the European model; Reorganize Moldsilva Agency and Apele Moldovei Agency, so as to improve their organizational charts and performance; Create proper waste recycling infrastructure; Put in place the green certicates system to reduce environment pollution; Encourage and create biomass renewable energy units; encourage the use of solar and wind energy, closed-cycle water devices etc., expected to have a positive impact on countrys ecology and to reduce dependence on certain traditional energy sources; Encourage the use of environment friendly technologies; Extend international cooperation on environment, in order to facilitate the transfer of technologies and acquire innovative products; Encourage applied research of clean technologies and conduct national awareness-raising campaigns about ecology and sustainable development.
b. Risk Reduction and Protection against Disasters

1. 2. 3.
Put in place an institutional-functional framework to coordinate the responses to disasters. Take measures aimed at reducing risks caused by disasters. Conduct information and awareness raising campaigns about protection against disasters.
Priority Actions:
Conduct relevant research and studies to collect evidence in terms of disaster prevention and risk reduction; Develop and approve a National Strategy for Reducing Disaster Risks; Design and put in place a mechanism for coordination of quick responses, provision of humanitarian aid, recovery and reconstruction, including establishment of a single command centre; Strengthen the specialized institutions or those dealing with prevention and removal of consequences of natural disasters: Service for Civil Protection and Exceptional Situations; National Centre for Disaster Medicine; State Hydro-meteorological Service; Apele Moldovei Agency etc; Improve the framework for making weather forecasts, data exchange and timely information about disaster risk;
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Activity Program
Revise the mechanism for providing and monitoring distribution of aid in cases of natural disasters, by developing clear and transparent procedures for providing compensations to people who have suered from natural disasters; Encourage exible property insurance programs against disasters, including insurance of houses, that take into account both, exposure and the proactive protection measures taken by the owner; Encourage the use of agro-meteorological information in agriculture in order to increase resistance to adverse weather eects; Rehabilitate the protection dikes in order to prevent and reduce the impact of oods; Seek to reduce disaster-related risks under all development programs, mainly in areas mostly exposed to disasters; Take comprehensive awareness raising measures to prepare citizens for natural disasters: community mobilization activities, training in schools etc.; Raise the awareness of farmers, familiarize them with the achievements of modern science and provide quality and timely forecasts to increase productivity, and reduce losses and consequences of various natural disasters; Encourage participation of the Republic of Moldova in regional and international activities focused on risk reduction and crisis management.
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GUVERNUL REPUBLICII MOLDOVA

Freedom, Democracy, Welfare

Economic and Financial Policies......................22

Responsible and Efficient Public Administration .......................................................39

Foreign Policy .........................................................47 Country Reintegration .......................................52 Education and Research......................................54

Health of Population ...........................................58 Social Policies .........................................................61

Government of the Republic of Moldova

of the Government of the Republic of Moldova

Government of the Republic of Moldova

Government of the Republic of Moldova

c. Reform of the Judiciary

Priority Actions: Reform the judicial organization system:

Government of the Republic of Moldova

10 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Reform of the Superior Council of Magistrates:

Reform of the Supreme Court of Justice:

Reform of the prosecution system:

11 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Reform of the system of administration of funds and resources of the judiciary:

Review the criminal, civil and administrative procedures:

12 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Develop arbitration and mediation as alternative ways of dispute resolution:

13 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Notary System Reform:

Enhance the bar institute and provide state-guaranteed legal assistance:

14 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Enhance the role of the Constitutional Court:

d. Public Order, Security and Defence

15 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Priority Actions: Ministry of Internal Aairs Reform:

16 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Reform of the Intelligence and Security Service:

National Security and Defence:

17 Government of the Republic of Moldova

e. Strengthened National Integrity and Anti-Corruption System

18 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Take long-term measures to curb underground economy:

f. Media Liberalization and Freedom of Expression

19 Government of the Republic of Moldova

g. Strengthened Civil Society and Cooperation with the Public Sector

20 Government of the Republic of Moldova

21 Government of the Republic of Moldova

and Financial Policies

Priority Actions: Remove administrative constraints on businesses:

22 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Promote exports and bring in investments:

23 Government of the Republic of Moldova

24 Government of the Republic of Moldova

b. Competitiveness Policies and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises

Priority Actions: Encourage technological development of enterprises:

Develop support infrastructure for enterprises:

25 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Ensure conditions for the development of a knowledge-driven economy:

26 Government of the Republic of Moldova

c. Public Property Administration and Privatization

27 Government of the Republic of Moldova

d. Budgetary - Fiscal Policy and Public Finance Management

28 Government of the Republic of Moldova

29 Government of the Republic of Moldova

30 Government of the Republic of Moldova

31 Government of the Republic of Moldova

Streamline measures to support food sector:

Develop the agriculture infrastructure and improve human capital quality:

32 Government of the Republic of Moldova