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The government is significantly expanding the list of grounds for compensation for abuses by law enforcement agencies. Compensation for material and emotional damages will be available for violations in administrative cases, illegal wiretapping, searches, and even inaction by the authorities. The bill is being prepared for adoption in its second reading.
The Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices is changing its approach to inspections: oversight will be conducted on a risk-based basis. The new methodology is designed to improve the efficiency, transparency, and predictability of inspections for businesses.
Statistics show that courts have recently been facing an increasingly acute shortage of personnel. Today, only 388 of the 524 judicial positions are filled. The situation is most dire in the Supreme Judicial Chamber, where only half of the positions are filled.
Losses caused by telephone scammers in Moldova during the first five months of the year exceeded 157 million lei (approximately $9 million), and recent police reports document local incidents involving amounts ranging from 1.8 to 3 million lei per day.
An order from the Ministry of Finance took effect yesterday, approving the form for the business license and its duplicate. At the same time, previously issued forms remain valid until the date on which they were issued or renewed.
Individuals who have suffered harm as a result of violations of competition laws will have the right to seek and receive full compensation for their losses.
The Moldovan Parliament has brought the country’s anti-money laundering legislation into line with European Union standards.
Parliament ratified the Convention Establishing the International Commission on Claims Relating to Ukraine, signed in The Hague on December 16, 2025.
The authorities are proposing to introduce a mechanism for gradually tightening sanctions in the context of criminal prosecution—ranging from fines, disqualification from engaging in certain activities and receiving government support, to the closure of a division and the liquidation of a company.
Following an investigation that lasted more than two years, the tech giant faces another round of serious sanctions for violating EU rules governing large technology companies.
This new measure will allow citizens to avoid additional consular legalization procedures, reduce the time required to process documents, and lower the associated costs.
Officials from the National Anti-Corruption Center (CNA), in conjunction with prosecutors from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA), are conducting approximately 30 searches today in connection with a case involving abuse of official position and the fraudulent acquisition of funds from external sources. The actions are directed against a number of economic entities and government officials.
Individuals and companies will be able to claim compensation not only for property damage but also for lost profits.
The EU Council’s Working Group on Enlargement (COELA) will, on Wednesday, July 22, will resume negotiations with Hungary on the approval of the screening results for Clusters 2 and 3 for Moldova and Ukraine, in order to begin the formal process of opening the clusters.
Moldova will revise the rules governing liability for manufacturing defects. The group of individuals deemed liable for damages will be expanded, in part due to the digitalization of the economy.
The American tech giant Antropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors who accused the company of illegally using their books to train the Claude language model.
A delegation from Moldova took part in the 68th series of meetings of the Assembly of Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), held in Geneva. Participants at the forum adopted decisions on the development of the international intellectual property protection system and approved the organization’s new leadership.
The European Commission has fined the Chinese marketplace AliExpress €550 million ($629 million) for failing to stop the sale of illegal, unsafe, and counterfeit goods on its platform. This is the largest fine imposed under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
It will become more difficult to book an apartment in Cyprus through Airbnb or Booking.com. The island’s authorities are preparing a major reform of the short-term rental market following the tragedy in Limassol, where people died when a residential building collapsed. As the investigation revealed, several apartments in the building—which had been declared unsafe—were officially registered for tourist accommodation.
Last week, competition and state aid were the focus of discussions between antitrust authorities and the business community. Representatives of the antitrust authorities from Romania, Poland, and Lithuania shared their experience with Moldovan businesses regarding investigations into violations of competition law and the application of state aid legislation.
