The Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices announced that businesses will not yet be required to pay a fee for the registration of medical devices brought to market in Moldova.
Installation of a centralized medical gas supply system has been completed in the operating suite at the Institute of Oncology. It will provide the operating rooms with the necessary gases and technical conditions for performing surgical procedures.
Moldova’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has begun preparing amendments to the rules governing the processing and protection of personal data.
Authorities plan to investigate cases where the import of goods could harm domestic businesses.
Starting September 1, pearls, furs, caviar, and a number of other goods imported into Moldova by economic agents registered in Transnistria will be subject to VAT and, where applicable, excise taxes. This measure is provided for in a draft government resolution prepared by the Ministry of Finance.
The Moldovan government plans to submit to parliament a bill to denounce the agreement on the establishment of an interlibrary exchange system among CIS member states, signed in Saratov in 1999, as well as the 2012 protocol amending it.
UPDATED. The Moldovan government intends to begin negotiations with Latvia on an agreement that will establish the procedures for the recognition and exchange of driver’s licenses between the two countries.
More than 18,000 people were admitted to higher education institutions in the Republic of Moldova following the main phase of the 2026 admissions cycle. This is nearly 2,500 (+16%) more than last year.
Moldova is developing a national action plan to implement the European Guarantee for Children. The document outlines measures aimed at improving children’s access to education, health care, healthy nutrition, social protection, and decent living conditions.
Mayors, representatives of local and regional governments, and experts are invited to Brussels for the 2026 Covenant of Mayors Ceremony. The theme of the event is “Local Leaders for Affordable Energy and Climate Resilience.”
In Moldova, family is becoming increasingly important to people, even despite the decline in the number of official marriages. Sociologist Yan Lisnevsky believes that the main risk for the country is not that people are registering their relationships less often, but that they are increasingly organizing their lives as if they did not need the state.
On August 21, Parliament will hold public consultations on the draft of a new law on state aid. The consultations are being organized jointly by the Committee on Economy, Budget, and Finance and the Committee on European Integration.
The Chisinau Regional Sectoral Trade Union Center for Education and Science announced a protest to be held outside the Government building on August 19. The protest was prompted by uncertainty surrounding pay raises for education sector workers.
The Ministry of Culture intends to improve the efficiency of spending in the cultural sector and will soon determine the funding priorities for 2027. This was announced by Minister of Culture Dan Suruceanu.
A new administrative-territorial map of the Republic of Moldova will be submitted to Parliament for approval this fall.
Students at the Technical University of Moldova (TUM) can see and test the operation of a “smart factory” firsthand in a laboratory where a scaled-down automated production line has been set up, simulating the processes of Industry 4.0—the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Following a wave of comments and criticism on social media and in the press regarding the possible introduction of an inheritance tax, Finance Minister Victoria Belous was forced to publicly clarify the situation. She stated that the tax policy for 2027 does not provide for the taxation of inheritances received by Moldovan citizens, including those living abroad.
The Minister of Education and Research, Dan Perciun, announced that he had submitted to Parliament a set of amendments to the “Restart in Education” reform, under which the transfer of schools from the jurisdiction of local councils to that of the Ministry of Education and Research will be postponed until 2028 for the municipalities of Chișinău and Bălți, as well as for the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia.
With financial support from the Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, a campaign will be launched in Moldova to raise the prestige of the social work profession. The project is being implemented in partnership with the Moldovan Ministry of Labor and Social Protection as part of the RESTART reform.
The authorities plan to develop a separate mortgage support program for citizens returning from the diaspora. The program, called Prima Casă Diaspora Revenită, will be part of the National Mechanism for Supporting the Return and Reintegration of Citizens from Abroad.
