News about Regulation

Six out of ten crimes in the Republic of Moldova are committed in urban areas, according to data on crime dynamics for 2025. According to statistics, 64% of all registered offenses occur in urban environments, which confirms the concentration of criminal activity in large population centers.

The inauguration of Central African Republic (CAR) President Faustin-Arkange Touadera on March 30, 2026 in the capital Bangui has suddenly become one of the high-profile topics of international politics.

The Law on SMEs will regulate the rules for determining the average number of employees of enterprises. For this purpose, it will be supplemented with a new Article 55, according to which the number of employees will correspond to the average number of persons employed during the year, determined on a monthly basis.

Some 76% of the world’s largest organizations have formally introduced the position of Chief AI Officer (CAIO) in 2026.

The information resource RI “Treasury” (RI Trezoreria) is being created in Moldova. This state register will be the only official source of data on treasury operations related to cash execution of budgets-components of the national public budget, receipts of the state budget and local budgets, as well as submission of payment documents.

The actors and writers who will be competing for the 99th annual Academy Awards must be human.

Innocent drivers will be able to receive compensation directly from their insurance company, faster and with less bureaucracy.

The Ministry of Justice proposes to change the format of court proceedings by increasing the use of online hearings and electronic interaction between courts and participants in the process.

PARIS/LOVELAND-The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced in early April a plan to deliver half of its government services using agent-based artificial intelligence (AI) within the next two years. According to the plan, AI will play the role of an “executive partner” that “analyzes, decides, executes and improves in real time” without human intervention.

The European Beekeepers’ Association (EBA) urges the European Commission to take emergency action by temporarily excluding Turkey, Ukraine and Russia from the list of third countries allowed to import bees. The reason is the detection of a dangerous pest – the mite Tropilaelaps spp. in these countries (as well as in Georgia and Belarus, with the prospect of rapid westward migration).

The decision is the first case of a dismissal trial involving the implementation of artificial intelligence.

Iran’s Central Bank and the IRGC are using the country’s largest crypto exchange to convert dollars. A Reuters investigation found that it processed transactions worth tens and hundreds of millions of dollars related to sanctioned groups, including the Central Bank of Iran and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The Maritime Agency of the Republic of Moldova will get new powers to assess and manage risks of foreign vessels. This is provided for by a package of changes aimed at harmonizing national regulations with EU standards.

The problem of trade in theses and dissertations in Moldova has become so obvious that the authorities are forced to bring it to the level of parliamentary discussions and prepare systematic measures for its suppression.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after a telephone conversation with Robert Fitzo that the Slovak prime minister would support Ukraine in the EU membership issue. He also said that he had invited Fitzo to Kiev, and the latter, in turn, invited him to Bratislava. Both leaders accepted the invitations.

Limited trade markups have not been applied to a line of goods (13 commodity items) included in the List of socially important goods (or essential goods) since April 30. The reason is that the Regulation on the order of formation of retail prices for essential goods has become invalid.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu urged citizens to turn only to official sources of information on actions in emergency situations, stressing the importance of the population’s preparedness in the context of the existing security risks.

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development has developed a draft order providing for the approval of a national standard, based on the European standard, for direct remote identification of drones.

The government plans to raise the minimum amount of strategic natural gas reserves from 50 million to 56.3 million cubic meters.

The figure of 3,000 inhabitants per administrative center, proposed as a minimum threshold within the framework of the local self-government reform, has no scientific justification. This opinion was expressed by expert Viorel Rusu during the public discussion “Administrative-territorial reform in Moldova. Concept”.