Legislative changes are being drafted to reduce the requirements and bureaucracy  that today’s economic operators are unduly burdened with.

Thus, it is proposed to amend the Labour Code, making it optional to keep daily records of working hours, to schedule annual leave, to have internal regulations, to have pre-contracts, to give notice and make requests about the start of leave, to communicate with employees through information boards. All of these things are now compulsory for businesses, which makes their work unduly complicated and imposes additional costs.

At the same time, experts propose replacing the medical record – the so-called blue medical passport – in the catering sector. It provides for a large number of medical examinations to be carried out only in certain medical establishments. The card will be replaced by a certificate issued by the family doctor only to people who may create risks for consumers by working with food and other activities. And examinations will be available in any medical establishment.

It is also intended to facilitate the development of small businesses in residential premises by obtaining the agreement of the majority of the residents of the building and not absolutely all of them.

In the case of registered businesses operating for less than three years, the inspection bodies will not be able to impose fines, but will only carry out advisory inspections, except in serious and repeated cases. The inspection body will be obliged to send the economic operator “checklists” informing them of what will be inspected. At the same time, the right is given to video and/or audio record the actions of the inspectors.

It is proposed that the types of activities requiring veterinary authorisation/registration be unified in a single piece of legislation, as there are situations of uncertainty and conflict.

Amendments are also being drafted to digitise the relationship between bailiffs and commercial banks in order to reduce significant administrative costs.

Exclude restrictions on the movement of capital and the risk of unjustified penalisation of commercial relations by repealing Law No 1466 on the repatriation of funds.

And to reduce the large number of requests and petitions for interpretation from entrepreneurs to public authorities, the obligation to publish information notes to regulations in the Official Gazette in electronic format will be introduced. This would help the business community to better understand the changes in legislation and the consequences thereof.

The amendments are being drafted by the Ministry of Economy, with the support of UNDP experts and the Secretariat of the Economic Council under the Prime Minister of the Republic of 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.