„Dear Parliament Speaker,.

Dear MP,.

Dear colleagues,.

I stand before you today as a result of the government's decision to assume responsibility for more important laws. I also thank the parliament leadership for its openness towards our initiative, as well as the coalition colleagues for the shown understanding and support.

Firstly, I would like to mention that, for the first time since becoming prime minister, must I resort to this legal procedure. From my point of view, the government's commitment represents quite a special measure and I intended to resort to it only in exceptional cases.

Today we have a special situation indeed: important laws for the justice reform risked being delayed, important laws to protect the banking system, but also for its transparency, were blocked, and some significant amendments to the state budget failed to be processed within the Committee for Economy, Budget and Finance, which would have put the government in a position to not be able to fulfil several commitments to its citizens, as well as to our development partners.

I would also like to mention that this topic was discussed within the pro-European coalition, it was agreed upon, so there is no disagreement on this topic. Of course, when there are different views on a draft, when some fellow MPs are missing for various reasons, a situation may arise where one does not have the necessary votes for a draft or another, but it is important nonetheless not to be held back by the lack the votes, especially when we have laws of such importance, to turn to all legal forms we have to move forward. Yes, we did not have enough votes, I do not see why we should not say it bluntly, and yes, there were some different point of view on which we have doubts, because we haven’t been given any arguments. Nevertheless, we cannot help but observe and conclude that we are in a position to find other solutions, as I said earlier, perfectly legal solutions. I see no tragedy in this, we will analyse them later and we will draw conclusions. Now it is important to promote the reforms and to keep moving with greater speed towards their implementation.

Particularly, it is extremely important to have the necessary legal framework to boost us forward in this extremely difficult situation that we currently have in the region. In this situation, the only solution that we have is to move forward with greater determination, so that our citizens feel the change for the better.

Before presenting the package of laws for which the government assumes responsibility today, I would like to clear up a speculation that emerged these days, especially after the government meeting on 21 July during which we were even accused by a gentlemen outside the Coalition that this package of laws contain electoral propaganda. I confess that I was a little surprised by such a view. If the laws contributing to the justice reform represent electoral propaganda, if making the banking system more transparent and strong is considered electoral propaganda, if keeping last year’s promise to raise salaries and pensions is electoral propaganda, it means that virtually they want the government to stop doing anything good and generally cease its activity for this year, only not to stir up anyone’s envy. From my point of view, it is not the fact that we offer society laws representing electoral propaganda, but such approaches represent methods to manipulate voters. The fact that we are in an election year does not mean that the government must cease its activity, we will continue to work and still get results even during the summer, including during elections. We cannot allow ourselves be intimidated at such times by populist criticism and stop our activity. And I assure you, dear colleagues, that the government will have a responsible approach till the end of the term.

‎Dear MPs,.

I will present the laws for which the government has decided to take responsibility before the parliament and will make a brief comment for each of them:

The first one – removing the immunity of judges and the liquidation of the Bender-based Court of Appeal.

We took on the political accountability for a law aimed at raising the immunity of judges for the offenses of money laundering and illicit enrichment. It is a continuation of our policies to reduce the immunity of judges, after in 2012 we did the same for the offenses of passive corruption and influence peddling and soon the results became visible: for the first time ever, we have first three judges caught in the act of taking bribes, of which two have already been sentenced to seven and eight years of imprisonment.

The liquidation of the Bender-based Court of Appeal derives from the need to optimise the court map of Courts of Appeals. And the fact that this court has become an oasis for decisions in favour of offshore companies in Belize or the Virgin Islands is the basic argument. A responsible government will rationally spend its resources to ensure the citizens’ access to justice, and all data indicate that keeping this Court of Appeal is not justified.

The second law refers to the disciplinary responsibility of judges.

A very important law, conceived to be approved at the same time with the extensive anti-corruption package of laws, which included the introduction of extended confiscation of assets for corruption offenses, criminal liability of the judges, introducing integrity tests, and increasing the salaries of judges. The primary goal was making the judges more responsible, by creating a system in which no judge committing disciplinary offences could get away. Unfortunately, more than half a year has passed and we had to adopt this important regulation, by assuming political responsibility.

The third topic relates to the draft on money laundering. Through this law we provide the effective tools to structures combating money laundering, through the detailed regulation of cases when the decisions of the Office for Prevention and Control of Money Laundering can be waived by a judge.

The need for the proposed changes is justified by the faulty practice resulting from the implementation of the existing norms regulating the suspensive effect of the decisions by the Office for Prevention and Control of Money Laundering and the instructing judge’s court orders. Applying the effective provisions diminishes the effectiveness of the measures ordered by the authorities responsible for the transactions and activities suspected of money laundering and financing of terrorism, as well as implicitly, diminishes the efficiency of the activity of preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing as a whole.

The fourth topic refers to the draft amending and supplementing certain acts.

The first one refers to the National Bank (BNM). It provides for the amendment of the participation quota in the social capital requiring NBM’s permission, imposes certain limitations on the change of ownership of the shares of commercial banks and introduces penalties for the mismanagement of banks.

Similarly, adjusting the legislation on the compulsory civil liability for accidents caused by motor vehicles is part of this draft. Another part of the draft relates to the law on the capital market that provides for the establishment of the exhaustive criteria for determining the public interest entities in the context of the EU Directive and strengthening the function of keeping the register of holders of corporate securities.

Similarly, it provides the concretisation of the offenses and crimes on the financial market as well as their measures of enforcement. This draft substitutes draft number 157 of 04.09.2013 which has been withdrawn by the government decision number 337 of 12.06.2013.

The fifth draft law refers to the amendment and completion of some legislative documents related to – security interests – pledging of immovable.

This bill implies amendment of some laws on movables pledging and other real security interests.

Presently, though there is a legislation, there are some economic and juridical problems, in order to implement it.

Thus, the major goal of this draft law is to increase the access to credits, by expanding the area of goods that might be subject to security interests, by expanding the regime of advertisement and to streamline the process of recovering the secured credits, in order to prevent blockings at the phase of enforcement.

Besides the law on pledge, this bill introduces improvements to the following legislative acts: law on leasing, code of execution, law on registers, fiscal code and others.

Sixth item – the draft law on approval of the combined goods nomenclature. This bill is aimed at: implementing of the Association Agreement with the European Union and Free Trade Area and taking over of experience of countries which adopt the nomenclature and tariff policy via a single document; it also provides for synchronising the implementation of the same goods nomenclature with the European Union and free trade scheme in Central Europe; it sees the revising of the import tariffs policy by increasing the customs duties on import to similar products and reducing taxes to raw materials and accessories; it stipulates the implementation of the new version of the nomenclature based on the recommendations of the Customs Cooperation Council of the World Trade Organisation and amendments operated to the adjusted goods coding and description system, at present known as HS2012 version.

Seventh issue – draft law on public finances and budgetary and fiscal responsibilities. In fact, I want to underscore and praise the fact that the parliament has already voted for the salary, pension increases, so, thank you for this. The need to intervene with this bill is related to the fact that we must also adjust certain budgetary indicators to forecasts of updated macroeconomic indexes, by taking into account the economic evolutions.

At this point, dear colleagues, we may congratulate each other for that by these wage increases, and we talk about a significant rise up, between 20 and 40 per cent for employees of various sectors (education, culture, science, medicine, etc.), it is about improving payment conditions for over 170,000 people. By this law, it is also about an increment of the average pension at the country level by 24 per cent starting from 1 July 2014. I believe that it is a nice achievement.

Eight issue – the bill on amendment and completion of the Law on the 2014 state budget no.339 from 23 December 2013.

The draft law is to substitute the present Law no. 847 from 24 May 1996 on budgetary system and budgetary process, in order to consolidate and make more efficient the use of public financial resources, as well as to fully regulate the budgetary system and improve procedures of working out, approval and management of budgets at all levels. It also includes instructions referring to public investments and empowers the government to elaborate a regulation on public investments.

Ninth topic – Amendment of the Law on state social insurance for 2014 no.329 from 23 December 2013.

It was worked out in order to specify the incomes and expenditures of the state social insurance budget, after the execution of the state social insurance budget was examined in 2013, in terms of revising of the forecasts of macroeconomic indicators for 2014-2017 by the Economics Ministry on 19 May 2014 and by taking into account the modifications operated to the legislation in the area along 2014.

Tenth item regards the draft law on mandatory health insurance funds for 2014, no. 330 from 23 December 2013.

The bill is meant to ensure the providing of medical services within the mandatory health insurance.

And the last issue concerns the draft law on organisation and functioning of the 112 national single emergency service.

This initiative is included in the 2011-2014 national action plan in the human rights area, approved by the parliament decision no.90 from 12 May2011, and the government’s work plan. It will implement into the national legislation the provisions of the European Commission Directive on universal service and users’ rights’ relating to electronic communications networks and services, included in the Association Agreement with EU.

This bill was worked out, in order to increase the level of safety and protection of people and goods all over Moldova, by fully using capacities and technical nature of the modern electronic communications networks.

The creation of the 112 Service and implementation of the automated information system to take over, process and stock data is judicious due to the following reasons. It ensures the interconnection and interoperability of reception desks of the emergency specialised services on a single technological platform and provides the citizens with the possibility to use a single call number; significantly diminishes the time of inquiry of caller by standardising procedures and associating to the phone call the data included in various information systems, not used at present yet, such as: geographic location, subscribers’ registers, addresses, transport, law-enforcement units and private persons, and stocks the history of made emergency interventions and their results.

Dear colleagues,.

These are the laws for which the government has decided to take commitment towards the parliament. As you may note, these laws are important and cannot be postponed till autumn.

As prime minister, I assume the responsibility for these laws and I am confident that they will bring real benefits to citizens and will back the activity of more institutions of the state.

At the end, I want to thank everybody who is present in the plenum today, as you ensured the quorum necessary for this set of laws to become functional. I also want to thank all my colleagues from the government, as well as to the coalition ones for the work done to work out these documents.

Thank you!"