News about Regulation

A levy of 0.5% of the investment volume to finance the development of technical standards in construction has caused concern in the business community. Representatives of the business community warn of risks to investment activity. The authorities say that it is possible to discuss the introduction of the mechanism, but not its expediency.

The shopping procedure will remain the same, but the price will increase in accordance with the payment of VAT. Customs duties and other charges to parcels are not proposed by the Ministry of Finance.

Moldovan Finance Minister Andrian Gavrilice said on the air of one of the Moldovan TV channels that “our Tax Code is like a colander through which the money of those who know how to use these mechanisms is poured”.

Businesses in the border zone within 1 km will be transferred to the notification regime. Instead of obtaining permits, entrepreneurs will be able to simply notify the Border Police about the start of their activities, and if there is no response within 10 days, the notification will be considered automatically valid.

Ukraine proposes to introduce a reduced VAT rate of 14% for basic food products. This measure is seen as a mechanism to curb food prices due to rising fuel prices.

Prior to the war in Ukraine, Latvian and Lithuanian ports served Belarusian cargoes, including exports of mineral fertilizers. Therefore, the Lithuanians recently received an unambiguous signal from the United States to start negotiations with Lukashenka.

Over the past 16 years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the longest-serving head of government in the European Union, has taken all sorts of actions to tip the electoral scales in favor of his ruling Fidesz party. However, that party may well lose Sunday’s election, raising the question of next steps.

The Commission for Emergency Situations in its current form will be abolished. A new structure will be created in its place.

This week’s plenary session of parliament was marked by intense debate on the draft law on amending the mechanism of voluntary unification of administrative-territorial units, but there were also issues related to the transparency of the decision-making process, which affected a significant part of the drafts considered.

The state intends to sell the “ultra-minority” stake in Moldindconbank through a regulated market, i.e. on the stock exchange. It is about 2,472 shares, which is only 0.05% of the bank’s capital.

Increasing crime detection and identification of personalities, speeding up the collection of evidence in the investigation of complex cases. All this was made possible thanks to the state-of-the-art DNA laboratory of the Forensic Technical Center at the General Inspectorate of Police, the official presentation of which took place this week.

The European Commission at the end of the week officially supported the initiative of a number of EU countries to introduce a tax on excess profits for large energy companies. The decision was caused by a sharp jump in energy prices due to geopolitical instability and the conflict in Iran.

TEL AVIV – When news broke that the United States had agreed to a two-week truce with Iran, I immediately recalled an exchange described by U.S. Col. Harry Summers in 1982. “You’ve never beaten us on the battlefield,” Summers told a former North Vietnamese colonel. “Yes, but we won the war,” came the emphatic reply.

Independent entrepreneurs (freelancers) are given two months to obtain a unique taxpayer identification number other than IDNP.

The consequences for the EU if the U.S. tariff regime remains in place are not uniform. Most noticeably, trade wars will continue to hit Germany and Belgium as export-oriented economies. As an alternative to such a scenario, analysts see the EU using the window of opportunity to restructure its trade strategy.

The reduction of electricity consumption by only 3% at the national level helped the Moldovan authorities to avoid a major energy crisis.

The profile of migrants in Moldova has changed. If earlier citizens of African countries and Asia prevailed, in 2025 the main share was made up of natives of states with simplified visa regime, primarily from CIS countries.

The Moldovan authorities doubt the need to pay the debt to the CIS when leaving the organization.

Hotel Zarya is planned to be privatized through an auction with an increased rate.

The national list of restrictive measures to which the Republic of Moldova has acceded includes 5,696 entities. As the existing data storage platform does not ensure full integration and convenient processing of information, the authorities plan to implement an Information System for recording international restrictive measures.