The Parliament voted in final reading amendments that bring national legislation into line with current European practice in the field and remove a number of constraints that were hampering the development of e-commerce and enhancing the protection of consumer rights, a Parliament press release said.

With today’s vote, MEPs made a series of amendments harmonising the domestic legal framework on domestic trade, completing it with provisions on e-commerce, concepts, notification procedures, definitions of business units without commercial premises, etc. The amendments also aimed to adjust legislation on information society services, on entrepreneurship and business, on personal data protection and others. 

According to the amendments to the Code of Offences, consumers of electronic services will benefit from protection when trading online, and the obligations of the parties to the online sale of alcoholic products and precious metals have been clarified.

The law was promoted by the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitisation and was drafted with the support of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister and USAID Moldova (FTA), and will enter into force in July this year.

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.