News about Legislation

The Moldovan authorities are intensifying their policy to promote cashless payments among the population and businesses. The National Strategy for Financial Inclusion is currently being developed: the document envisages the creation of a sustainable and trustworthy financial ecosystem in the next five years, Logos Press reports.

The documents regarding the voluntary merger of mayoralties are vague, lacking a clear vision and the government has no definitive position on the issue, according to Logos Press.

More than a million Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube accounts belonging to Australians under the age of 16 have been deactivated since the national ban came into effect. The figure was markedly higher than the authorities had expected. The social networks face fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars ($32 million) for violating the law.

Moldova is canceling the 1990 Soviet norm that regulated the translation of clocks on the territory of the former Moldavian SSR and officially introduces UTC+2 time on a permanent basis, Logos Press reports.

India AI Impact Summit 2026 concluded in New Delhi, with 86 nations and two international organizations signing a joint declaration on the development and regulation of artificial intelligence, according to Logos Press.

This year, 1.82 billion lei will be allocated from the state budget to the Road Fund for the maintenance and repair of 5,993 km of national roads and their engineering structures. The program for the allocation of funds will be approved at a cabinet meeting on February 25, Logos Press reported.

UPDATED. Amid a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found Trump’s already imposed duties illegal, the president of the United States has imposed new additional 10% import duties on all countries, Logos Press reported.

Tallinn is considering the possibility of confiscating Russian assets in favor of Ukraine if Moscow refuses to make compensation payments to Kiev, Logos Press reported.

The rules of origin of goods applied within the preferential trade between the Republic of Moldova and the Republic of Turkey, in order to align them with the modernized pan-European Mediterranean system and to facilitate international trade, have been updated, Logos Press reported.

F6 reported a new technique for attacking devices connected to the home network. According to experts, the entry point is often smart vacuum cleaners – their compromise remains invisible to the owner and has no effect on the device’s operation. As a rule, everything starts with hacking into a Wi-Fi router – either by choosing a password or exploiting vulnerabilities, Logos Press reports.

Almost two months of the new tax regime with a 15% flat tax rate for independent entrepreneurs continues to reveal the bottlenecks of the Freelancers Law. Some of these can be attributed to payment and settlement issues through banks and intermediary platforms.

The Ministry of Education and Research has finalized the public procurement procedure for services to prevent and respond to incidents of bullying in schools and high schools, Logos Press reported.

The judicial year 2026 of the Constitutional Court was officially opened during a ceremony presenting the results of the institution’s activity and priorities for the coming period. The central message of the event was voiced by the Chairperson of the Commission for Law, Appointments and Immunities, Veronika Roška, who stated that “the Judicial Year 2026 begins under the sign of strengthening the rule of law”, Logos Press reported.

The government has until June 2026 to approve a value-added tax increase for HoReCa (catering and hotels) companies, according to Logos Press.

Crypto-assets of the population are not protected, as their circulation in Moldova is not regulated, and all offers of profitable investments, coming allegedly from the National Bank or other state institution, are false, reports Logos Press.

Nearly two and a half tons of cookies containing contaminated palm oil did not reach store shelves as a result of the intervention of inspectors from the National Food Safety Agency ANSA, Logos Press reports.

In Moldova, many child sexual abuse cases take an extremely long time to be heard because of the “sophisticated techniques” of suspects and their lawyers, Logos Press reported.

Moldova does not buy Russian gas, and the volumes coming through the Turkish Stream pipeline from Russia to Southeastern Europe are sent exclusively to Serbia, Hungary and Slovakia, Logos Press reported.

Only in one day, customs officers at Chisinau International Airport, during a specialized inspection of the luggage of passengers entering the country, discovered and confiscated a whole range of goods, Logos Press reported.

In Chisinau, law enforcers detained two administrators of a call center engaged in fraud through fictitious investments in cryptocurrencies and financial services. In total, the damage caused to customers, mostly Romanian citizens, amounts to more than 9 million Moldovan lei, Logos Press reported.