A state authority of Moldova cannot demand from entrepreneurs and citizens the documents available in another institution - Dumitru Alaiba.
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development stated this, recalling that MConect - a platform designed to ensure data exchange between information systems belonging to public institutions and agencies - is in force in the country. Alaiba also recalled that the current Law on Data Exchange and Interoperability explicitly states that "public participants are obliged to ensure the provision of services without requesting documents, in case the data contained in these documents are available in information resources and can be consumed or supplied through the interoperability platform." "Unfortunately, we receive dozens of notifications from citizens and the business community who report that public institutions do not comply with these provisions of the law and refuse unreasonably, I repeat - unreasonably, to provide a public service, motivated by the applicant's failure to provide documents, while the relevant public service provider has access to the data contained in these documents through the interoperability platform. I have signed a circular to the agencies for which we have received complaints and given them a 10-day deadline to remove the obstacles. I am making a public appeal to citizens - if after these 10 days, you are asked again for data/documents already held by another government agency, you are not obliged to present them. I urge you to notify us of such requests at digital@mded.gov.md. Agencies need to log into MConnect and access them from there. Data sharing and interoperability is not a right of public authorities, but an obligation, non-compliance with which entails criminal liability or even dismissal from office for a period of 3 months to 1 year," Dumitru Alaiba wrote on his social media page. // 16.11.2023 - InfoMarket.
