The law on electronic commerce

JSC „Moldtelecom” has a network of 56 of PAIP spread in all the districts regions and other localities in the country.

The Ministry of Informational Development, on the basis of its regional offices created 6 PAIP and the Ministry of Justice – 5.

The Soros Moldova Foundation contributed with the opening of 103 PAIP, deployed usually in public libraries.

Local Public Administration (LPA) bodies are in the process of involving themselves in this important action with the purpose to increase the level of application of informational technologies and function on the entire territory of the country.
Other possibilities of diversification of this network are under research. An essential contribution for the spread of the public access internet points on the territory of the country has the private investments. A large spectrum of such private places have been open and are functioning on the entire territory of the country.

It is expected that the level of Internet application will considerably increase with the diversification of the electronic services and especially the E-Governance services. An important step in this direction is the implementation along with UNDP Moldova of the project on the development of a automated informational system – E-Declaration. This is oriented towards an on-line interaction between taxpayers and the Central Fiscal State Inspectorate.

Specialised institutions under the subordination of the MID have studied the possibility to apply for an European financial support offered through the Framework Programme VI, but researches that would have met the participation conditions were not identified in the specified period.

Taking into account the launch on the 1^st of January 2007 of the Framework Programme VII, MID actively participates to disseminate the information on the possibilities offered by this instruments and works on an internal study on the possibility of subordinated units to participate with applications.

Presently, the new draft Law on the protection of the environment is under development, where the implementation of the respective measure will be taken into account.

At the second high level conference of the signing parties of the Aarhus Convention (Almata,2005) delegation of Republic of Moldova proposed to amend art.6 of the Convention in order to facilitate public access to the information related to the genetically modified organisms (introduction into production – environment, placing on the market, contained use) . With the majority of votes proposal was accepted (art.6 was amended and completed with the new article 6 bis). The Ministry have initiated the proceedings on acceptance of amendment to the Aarhus Convention text and upon the conclusions of the national relevant institutions on the 30 of July the Government Decisions for the adoption of draft Law on adhesion of the Republic of Moldova to the Convention amendment on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters (has been ratified on April 7, 1999) was adopted. In this regard, the NGOs on environmental issues participated actively.

Presently, as a result of the launch by the Ministry of Foreign Affaris of Latvia of the call for proposals for projects that have as aim to increase cooperation with the Republic of Moldova, and taking into account the cooperation domains from the Cooperation Agreement in the field of environment between MENR and the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Latvia, signed on the 17th of March 2006, SIA Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian Environment filed in the project “Support of MENR in the implementation of EU requirements on the evaluation of the impact on environment in a cross border context” and was approved.

Thus, the respective project has as general aim the development of:

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  Proposals to amend the national legislation to ensure conformity with the EU Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment and Directive on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment
  
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  Proposals to amend the institutional structure to ensure the qualitative and efficient implementation of the above-mentioned Directives in the Republic of Moldova.
  

environmental education, support civil society actors and local authorities

Within MENR, with the support of the Danish Agency for the Protection of Environment and the National Ecologic Fund, the Environment Informational Centre (EIC) was created, which has as aim the development of information management capacities within the ministry and its dissemination.

The materials for the segment “Meeting of the minsters of environment and education” were prepared for the ministerial conference “An environment for Europe” Belgrade, 2007.

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  Law no. 325-XVI from 15.12.05 regarding the Red Book of the Republic of Moldova
  
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  Law no. 149-XVI from 08.06.06 on piscicultural fund, fishing and fish breeding
  
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  Law no. 265 – XVI from 28.07.06 regarding the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and other Scientific Purposes / Directive no.86/609/CEE
  
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  Law no. 136–XVI from 14.06.2007 on the zoological gardens / Directiva 99/22/CE
  

The draft proposal for approximation of standards of protection of aquatic resources was developed. With the support of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development donors have been identified and presently the project is under implementation.

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  from October 2006 till June 2007 there have been dismantled, packed, transported to France for destruction and incineration facilities condensers from the transformers’ stations of SA enterprise “Moldelectrica” that contain PCBs. On 25.06.2007 according to the feasibility study, were excavated and evacuated power transformers from “Vulcanesti -400” transformer station. The total amounts that have been transported to France for destruction and incineration constitutes at 01/10/2007 934, 05 tons of condensers form the following transformer stations: Vulcăneşti, Donduşeni, Edineţ, Briceni, Lipcani, Drochia, Soroca, Ungheni, Hînceşti, Orhei, Străşeni, Comrat şi Ceadîr-Lunga.
  
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  Were evacuated and transported to France for destruction the stockpiles of obsolete pesticides form central districts’ storages. According to the data on 01/10/2007 460,6 tons of obsolete pesticides have been transported in France to be destroyed. The works will be finalized in February 2008.
  
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  In order to remediate the contaminated sites, MENR with the support of the WB developed and presented to the Canadian POPs Fund the project proposal “Remediation the contaminated sites with POPs and clean-up of PCBs contaminated oils in power equipment”. As result of this project on 29/06/2007 the Government of the Republic of Moldova and World Bank signed Granting Agreement of 444.450 US dollars. The contribution of the RM Government will be about 57.700 US dollars.
  

According to the Decision of the Supreme Security Council no. 05/1-03-14 of 14/03/2006, MENR developed the National Program in Environmental Security for 2007-2015, that has been approved by GD 304 of 17/03/2007.

Climate Change

Presently, Republic of Moldova implements 3 projects within the Development of Non-polluting Mechanisms (DNP) and has developed another 3 projects within the DNP context.

Between 8th and 9th of June in Chisinau took place the meeting of the Chiefs of Delegations to ICPDR of the Danube countries within the Working Group Meeting. At the meeting Chiefs of delegations of the countries party to the Convention participated, such as: the European Commission, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, as well as the observers of the international organisations: Black Sea Commission, Danube Environmental Forum, etc.

During 22-26th of June 2006, activities related to the celebration of the Days of Danube have been organised in Moldova. The activities initiated in the Republic of Moldova in the context of the Days of Danube continued in Romania between 27th and 29th of June 2006. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment and Water Management along with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, during 27-28th of June in Galati the Conference with the theme “Past and Present in the institutionalisation of Danube cooperation” took place, where the Moldovan delegation participated as well. This event was followed by the celebration of the Danube Days on the 29th of June.

Starting with June 2006, for a period of one year Republic of Moldova holds the vice-presidency within the Working Group Danube – Black Sea (DABLAS).

In order to implement in Republic of Moldova of the EU Water Initiative, in 2006 begun the promotion of the National Politic Dialog, as an Eastern European, Caucasus and Central Asia component of the EU Water Initiative.

In this process Republic of Moldova express its willingness to participate, using Dialogue mechanism aimig at reglementation of stringente issues in the field of water resources, especially in the integrated water resources management. Also, in the framework of this Dialogue will be scheduled such activities as: alignment of national legislation to the EC water Directive and Strategy on water resources, as well as esteblishment of objectives concerning Protocol on Water and Health. In this context, in september 2007 the first seminar using Dialogue mechanism on this issues was orgnised. At the same time, within this dialog are implied all state authorities interested in promotion of the integrated water resources management.

- The Law on the technical-scientific parks and innovation incubators; - was adopted by the GD no.407 of 13.04.07 and by the Parliament on 21.06.07 (no. 138-XVI of 21.06.2007, OM no. 107-111/476 of 27.07.2007);

- The Law on complementing certain legal acts, by providing fiscal and customs privileges to the residents of the parks and incubators – adopted by the GD no.406 of 13.04.07 and on 22.06.07 by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (no. 144-XVI of 22.06.2007, OM no. 94-97/424 of 06.07.2007);

- The Law on renewable energy sources – adopted by the Parliament by the no.160-XIV of 12.07.2007;

- Strategy for evaluation of the renewable energy sources until 2010 and future perspective – was reviewed positively by the ministries and was presented to the Government for adoption;

- National programme for evaluation of the renewable energy sources for the years 2007-2010 – is adjusted to the Law on renewable energy sources and the indicators of the Energy strategy of the Republic of Moldova until 2020;

- Energy strategy of the Republic of Moldova until 2020.

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The adjustment of the existing legal framework by introducing the amendments and supplements to the Code on science and innovation, Law of the Republic of Moldova (no.259-XV of 15 of July 2004) and Government Decision (no.361 of 27.03.03) on tax, fees and other customs duties exception had created the necessary conditions for the development of international grants and supported the creation in the Republic of Moldova of the Academic University and Academic Lyceum.

The Partnership Agreement of the Government and SAM signed for the years 2005-2008 (GD no.80 of 28.01.05) provides the amount of finances and includes the strategic priorities for development in the area of science and innovation and establishes the responsibility of the relations between the parties.

1) The Conference of the Sciences Academies from the Est and South-Est Europe. “Global Science and National Policies: the Role of Academies”, 4-5 of May 2007.

2) The seminar on the Framework Programme 7 of the EU in the field of Research and Technical Development, organised by the SAM of Moldova with the support of the European Commission and the National Centre for Documentation from Athens, Greece in the framework of the NIS _NEST Project on 30^th of March 2007 “Opportunities offered for the FP 7 of the EU in the field of research and development for the scientific community form the Est European States”, with the support of the Europeam Commission. At this event participated over 200 researchers from Moldova.

3) The 4^th Conference “Ecologic Chemistry 2007”, organised by the Braunshwein University from Germany, in collaboration with the SAM department for the State Chemic and ecologic industry from Moldova, that will take place on 12-15 of November 2007.

4) During the week of the Centre on Scientific and Technological Development from Ukraine (SCTU) in Moldova, under the topic “Integration of the scientific community of the Republic of Moldova in the European Research and Innovation Area”, that took place on 28^th – 2^nd of May 2007, three new projects were obtained, which will be financed by the SCTU. At the present moment 5 projects supported by SCTU are running in the field of mathematics, informatics and nanotechnologies in medicine, with a total value of 603326 Euro.

1) The Conference of the Science Academies from the Est and South-Est Europe “Global Science and National Policies: the Role of Academies”, 4-5 of May 2007.

2) The seminar on the Framework Programme 7 of the EU in the field of Research and Technical Development, organised by the SAM of Moldova with the support of the European Commission and the national Centre for Documentation from Athens, Greece in the framework of the NIS _NEST Project on 30^th of March 2007 “Opportunities offered for the FP 7 of the EU in the field of research and development for the scientific community form the Est European States”, with the support of the EC Commission. At this event participated over 200 researchers from the Republic of Moldova.

3) The 4^th Conference “Ecologic Chemistry 2007”, organised by the Braunshwein University from Germany, in collaboration with the SAM department for the State Chemic and ecologic industry from Moldova, that will take place on 12-15 of November 2007.

4) During the week of the Centre on Scientific and Technological Development from Ukraine (SCTU) in Moldova, under the topic “Integration of the scientific community of the Republic of Moldova in the European Research and Innovation Area”, that took place on 28^th – 2^nd of May 2007, three new projects were obtained, thaw will be financed by the SCTU. At the present moment 5 projects supported by SCTU are running in the field of mathematics, informatics and nanotechnologies in medicine, with a total value of 603326 Euro.

SAM is annually participating to the sessions of NATO’ Committee for Science. The Scientific and Technology Centre from Kiev, is financing two research projects in the field of nanotechnologies and informatics. The Ambassador Cesare de Montis, Head of the EC delegation in Chisinau, participated at the seminar “Cooperation with the EU countries” that took place on 22.11.06, at the SMA premises, at which the report on “New possibilities of integration in the European Community”. On 8^th of December 2006, Daniel Descountures, representative of the Council of the EU within the FP 7 of the EU in the field of research and technologies development”.