11 August 2020 – The business community and representatives of state institutions analyze within the Economic Council platform the constraints and development of a set of measures to ensure the unconditional acceptance by public authorities, legal entities of public and private law, individuals, electronic documents and signatures.

Today, economic agents and individuals, although they have the right, according to the law on electronic signature and electronic document, no longer physically come to state institutions to pick up or present required documents on paper, this still happens.

Unconditional acceptance of electronic documents and signatures is extremely important in the context of the challenges posed by the pandemic, say representatives of the associative sector.

Another topic addressed at the meeting was the implementation of remote identification procedures even without a qualified advanced signature. This would help a lot people who do not have signatures, but need certain essential services, such as requesting documents from the state, opening bank accounts, gaining access to telephone services.

The platform examines the need to launch unilateral recognition of electronic signatures in the EU.

According to experts, this would capitalize on a huge potential to attract EU investment in Moldova and reduce the constraints of foreign investors operating in Moldova.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund, and the International Finance Corporation’s Investment Climate Reform Project funded by the Government of Sweden’s International Development Agency.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund.