The main innovations concern total accounting. Reporting becomes mandatory for all entities, regardless of whether they received the right to use subsoil under old transfer acts or under new permits. This will exclude “gray zones” in statistics.
For the first time in Moldova, a special form of reporting – Monitoring of Critical Raw Materials – will be introduced. This will allow the state to track the presence of strategic components that may be contained in basic rocks, overburden dumps or mining waste.
All information will be consolidated in the State Subsoil Information Fund and the State Geological Register.
The need for changes is dictated by the entry into force of the new Subsoil Code from May 29, 2026. The government decree in force since 2016 will be canceled as it no longer complies with modern legal norms and institutional structure.
“This project ensures the transition from simple statistical data collection to a modern monitoring system that will allow the state to plan the use of resources for decades to come and guarantee their rational exploitation,” the Environment Ministry said in an explanatory note.
