News about Legislation

The Moldovan government has approved a mechanism that provides for strict verification of all recipients of European funding to ensure that resources do not go to sanctioned individuals.

A scandal erupted in Chisinau after six officers of the Botanica Police Inspectorate were detained on suspicion of corruption. During extensive searches conducted by the National Center for Combating Corruption, money, documents and items relevant to the investigation were seized.

Moldova introduces the concept of “social economy” into the legislation. The relevant project is being developed by the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization. It provides for the implementation of the Recommendation of the Council of the European Union on the development of framework conditions for the social economy and building an economy at the service of the citizen.

Emergency Situations Department (ESD) head Raed Arafat announced on Tuesday that he has been charged with complicity in smuggling in connection with the replacement of a helicopter that crashed in 2016 in Moldova.

The Government establishes the Authority for Investigation of Antidumping, Countervailing and Safeguard Measures. The new structure is designed to promptly respond to threats to national producers and ensure fair competition.

On April 21 this year, the Estonian Parliament approved a law accelerating the construction of national defense facilities.

UPDATED. The state of emergency in the energy sector will be lifted ahead of schedule if parliament votes in favor of the government’s proposal to end the state of emergency on April 25, rather than in May as previously planned.

A meeting of the working groups on Authorized Economic Operators (AEOs) and risk management under the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) opened in Chisinau on April 21. The meeting will be complemented by a session on simplification of procedures and interconnection of border crossing points and customs posts, organized in cooperation with the Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community (TCC).

As of May 1 this year, the reduced VAT rate of 8% currently in effect for medical devices will be canceled. The legislators decided to return to the basic 20% rate for them, as the privilege introduced last year did not work.

The Council of the European Union decided to extend restrictive measures against persons “responsible for actions aimed at destabilizing, undermining or threatening the sovereignty and independence of the Republic of Moldova” until April 29, 2027.

In October 2025, the Moldovan government imposed a de facto ban on sugar imports from Serbia to the Moldovan market for a period of 200 days under the pretext of protecting the sector. This measure was presented as a supportive measure to give local sugar producers another hypothetical chance to “perk up”. Even at the cost of quite real sacrifices imposed on the entire food industry of Moldova. Let us assess what happened in the end.

Azerbaijan’s relations with Belgium and the Netherlands have found themselves in a zone of high turbulence. Official Baku accused Brussels and Amsterdam of interfering in internal affairs after European parliamentarians adopted resolutions on the release of detained persons whom the Azerbaijani side considers war criminals, as well as on the continuation of the EU observation mission in Armenia.

The authorities are taking strict control over the extraction of minerals and intend to introduce European standards of subsoil monitoring. The draft mandatory reporting developed by the Ministry of Environment will affect all subsoil users and for the first time will force them to take into account even hidden valuable components in dumps.

The committee for the development of the new Customs Code of Ukraine has approved the draft document, which was finalized taking into account comments from the European Commission and proposals from businesses.

The spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has started in Strasbourg. Within the session, Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mihai Popşoi will present a report on the activity of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe – in May, Moldova will complete its six-month chairmanship in this institution.

If a store customer wants to make sure that the minimum shelf life of purchased chicken eggs has not yet expired, he or she will be able to do so. This week, a government decree was officially published and came into force, obliging egg producers to provide detailed information on the packaging.

The law tightening penalties for drugs has received a great public response. It is called “punitive”, “forceful” and dangerous for the system of addiction treatment. Amid criticism from experts, the fate of the initiative now seems to depend largely on the position of Maia Sandu.

The National Commission for Financial Market (NCFM) today officially confirmed the facts of violation of consumer rights by OTP Bank S.A.. The regulator identified serious discrepancies in loan agreements and guarantee agreements.

The Competition Council plans to purchase equipment for the data processing and analysis laboratory, worth about 1.6 million lei, excluding VAT. These are high-performance workstations needed to analyze large amounts of economic information and to conduct competition investigations.

The Moldovan government will consider on Wednesday, April 22, the draft denunciation of the Agreement on the division and joint use of freight cars and containers of the former USSR Ministry of Railways.