Parliament of Moldova has adopted in final reading the amendments to the Law on Internal Trade.
The corresponding decision was adopted by MPs at a plenary session on Thursday at the initiative of the parliamentary commission on economy, budget and finance. It should be noted that the draft amendments to the Law on Internal Trade was adopted in the first reading on November 26, 2020, and in the second reading - on December 16, 2020, but, as it turned out, without the approval of the new edited text of the draft law. Subsequently, it was detected a duplication of the provisions of paragraph 30 with the same provision of the law, which had already entered into force on January 25, 2021. In this context, the profile commission proposed to make editorial changes, to exclude the mentioned paragraph 30 from the draft amendments to the Law on Internal Trade and to adopt the mentioned document in final reading. As InfoMarket previously reported, the bill as a whole is aimed at eliminating existing regulatory inconsistencies in the legislative framework related to the field of internal trade, including the provision of bringing the regulatory provisions of the Law on Internal Trade in line with the provisions of the Law on the Regulation of Entrepreneurship by Permit and the Law on Basic Principles of Business Regulation. The draft law also sets out more clearly the grounds for refusing to accept a trade notification, outlines in more detail the activities of the authorities in relation to the effect of notifications in trade, as well as the procedure for receiving, processing and issuing confirmations. The authors of the bill argue that the new law will exclude any possibility of evading local taxes, also by including in its content a typology of commercial units by systematizing (codifying) them and replacing them. At the same time, the bill includes provisions on changing the marketing of goods / services at a reduced price by introducing a separate chapter. The legal framework is also being supplemented by new provisions on domestic producers and the procedure for selling surplus agricultural products obtained from household plots or in fruit and vegetable associations. The fact that the automated information system for management and issuance of permits (SIA GEAP) started being used as a platform for information resource in the field of trade has led to the revision of the Law on Internal Trade. As noted by the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, the draft law prepared by the department does not contain conceptual changes to existing provisions and mainly proposes clarifications and corrections of existing provisions in order to eliminate ambiguity, the possibility of misinterpretation and declarative rules. The amendments to the Law on Internal Trade were made taking into account the recommendations of the analytical study of regulations in the field of internal trade, developed within the framework of a project implemented with the support of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). // 04.03.2021 - InfoMarket.
