News about Regulation
Banks and non-bank organizations providing payment services will be required to take additional measures to reduce the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing when opening subsidiaries and branches.
On the evening of May 22, weather conditions caused a power outage on a 400 kV line connecting Romania with Moldova and Ukraine. Moldovan residents continue to receive electricity, but authorities asked them not to waste it during peak hours. Romania is expected to supply power offline via 110 kV lines.
The US presidential administration has tightened the rules for obtaining a green card, obliging most foreigners to apply for a residence permit from outside the country. This was reported by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).
OPDATED. Heavy downpours on the evening of May 22 led to floods, power outages and temporary blockages in a number of regions. A critical situation occurred in the village of Hîrzauca, Calarasi district, where the breach of a local dam caused a massive flood, requiring emergency rescue operations.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has offered his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky to meet. The offer was made against the background of Kiev’s warnings that Russia was preparing a new offensive through the Belarusian territory to the Ukrainian capital and Chernihiv Region.
The operating environment for civil society organizations is becoming increasingly restrictive and hostile, including in Moldova. This was stated by Ion Manole, executive director of Promo-LEX Association, during the annual conference “Cooperation between Parliament and Civil Society”.
Representatives of EU countries and the European Parliament failed to agree on a new “Return Regulation” regulating the rules for deporting illegal migrants.
As a result of control at the border points, inspectors of the National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA) revealed substandard goods: a batch of buckwheat (132 kg), two batches of dill and parsley (26 tons), three batches of surrogate cheese (about 1.5 tons).
The Council of the European Union has decided to suspend customs duties on imports of nitrogen fertilizers used in the bloc’s agriculture for a year. This measure is designed to reduce the costs of European farmers by about 60 million euros.
The draft law on the regulation of public parking lots provoked heated discussions during parliamentary consultations. Sergiu Popovici, head of the department at the General Directorate of Urban Mobility of the Chisinau Municipal Council, believes that the local parking fee should be retained in the Tax Code.
Latvia’s Ministry of Economy has signed an agreement with food traders to reduce the VAT rate from 21% to 12% on basic food products in stores from July 1 this year. The list includes bread, fresh milk, chilled poultry meat and eggs.
The European film industry has joined the fight against one of the biggest media deals of recent years. Industry representatives called on the European Union to scrutinize the possible merger of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance, fearing that the new media giant would increase Hollywood’s influence on the European market.
A US official will visit the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) for the first time in several years. Rodney Mims Cook, head of the US Federal Commission of Fine Arts, will come to St. Petersburg this year.
The Agency for Competition and Consumer Protection of Georgia announces its intention to create a unified information platform for monitoring the Family Basket program.
Farmers are not against the unification of the VAT rate in the agri-food sector, but are strongly opposed to the proposed increase of the rate more than twice – from 8% (on agricultural products and some food products) to the standard 20%.
US President Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order to introduce a new AI verification system after speaking with David Sachs, chairman of the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, SpaceX CEO Ilon Musk and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The MEPs “deeply regret” Baku’s decision to end cooperation with the European Parliament and call on Azerbaijani colleagues to resume dialog, “even and especially when discussions have become uncomfortable.”
Moldova will have a unified “Register of Images of Persons” – an information system where photos of citizens will be stored and processed for the needs of law enforcement agencies.
Sugar industrial consumers are satisfied with the content of the dialog with the representatives of the Parliament and the Ministry of Economy on the new draft regulation on sugar imports in the Republic of Moldova. According to them, the authorities took into account the proposals of food industry associations and prepared a balanced draft decision, which provides for the introduction of annual quotas for sugar imports from CEFTA countries and Belarus.
The Material Reserves Agency announced in May a series of large tenders for the purchase of specialized machinery and equipment worth more than 20 million lei. The purchases are intended to respond to emergencies, eliminate the consequences of floods and provide mobile sanitation infrastructure.
