Moldova is simplifying internal trade rules.
The government at a meeting on April 12 endorsed a draft decree approving the secondary regulatory framework in the field of internal trade. In particular, the Cabinet approved the regulation on the internal trade, which stipulates the requirements for wholesale and small retail trade, as well as the specific rules on market trade - the way of establishing and organizing of activities, types of markets, sanitary requirements, restrictions for market trade, rights and obligations of market administrators and traders, the framework regulation of the market, etc. Another document, the Regulation on the Procedure for Indication of Prices of Goods Offered to Consumers, establishes the procedure for indicating the selling price and unit price of the goods displayed at market places and offered to consumers, in order to ensure complete and correct information and to allow easy price comparison. In addition, the draft contains 2 sanitary regulations - for catering facilities and for trade establishments with a food profile. It is worth mentioning that initially this draft decree envisaged the approval of 9 new regulations and rules, but after the consultations it was decided to revise and consolidate some of them, leaving only 5. Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization Dumitru Alaiba explained that absurd and outdated rules are abolished from the regulatory framework. For example, the menu and the catalog of alcoholic beverages will no longer have to be approved by the accountant and head of department, there will be no mandatory requirement to have at least 80% of the assortment at the time of ordering products; waiters will not be required to know the information on calling a cab, the emergency services, etc. The updated internal commerce rules will come into force 6 months after publication in Monitorul Oficial (the Official Journal of Moldova). By that time, the central and local authorities and regulatory bodies must harmonize the regulatory framework with the new requirements. At the same time, eight governmental decisions that contain 14 normative acts (rules, regulations, nomenclatures, requirements) regulating the activity in the sphere of internal trade will lose force. // 12.04.2023 - InfoMarket.
