The Constitutional Court of Moldova declared unconstitutional the amendment to include the Chisinau airport in the list of objects not subject to privatization.
The Constitutional Court made this decision on June 20 after considering a request from a group of deputies from the Bloc of Communists and Socialists who challenged the relevant amendments to the Law on the Management of Public Property and its Denationalization in the Constitutional Court. The changes stipulated that, in derogation from the provisions of the current legislation, a decision to include an object or state-owned enterprise in the list of objects not subject to privatization can be made by parliament even in the absence of a government proposal, if the relevant object is important for the security of the state in accordance with Article 5 of the Law on the Review Mechanism investments significant for state security or the state-owned enterprise operates in one of the areas significant for state security provided for in Article 4 of this law. Another amendment stipulated that the exclusion from the list of objects not subject to privatization, objects and state-owned enterprises provided for by the above-mentioned amendment, is carried out by parliament solely on the basis of a government proposal, accompanied by economic, budgetary, social and legal justification, as well as justification related to the absence of risks for state security. The Party of Socialists said that it welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Court, which declared illegal the amendments to the legislation providing for the inclusion of the Chisinau airport in the list of state-owned objects not subject to privatization. According to the authors of the request to the Constitutional Court, the amendment was adopted in violation of the deadlines for registration in parliament, without submitting an examination and a government conclusion, and without holding public consultations. In particular, the change was registered the day before the law was adopted in the second, final reading. The amendment completely changed the concept of the original draft and had to be considered and adopted in two readings. // 20.06.2024 — InfoMarket.
