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The Republic of Moldova will benefit from a new Data Protection Law. The new law fully transposes the General Data Protection Regulation and will ensure even greater personal data protection in line with European practices. The Data Protection Law is one of the most debated and long-promoted pie...

Thus, one of the novelties is the completion of the Tax Code with a new instrument Long-term incentive program (stock option plan) – an employee loyalty program initiated within a company. Through the program, the company's employees and managers will be granted the right to purchase a cer...

The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova voted in the final reading on amendments to the Law on waste. The AmCham Moldova community actively participated in public consultations on the project, expressing concerns about some of the proposed changes and submitting proposals and comments to improv...

The Parliament approved a set of amendments to Law No 108/2016 on natural gas to increase the energy system's resilience in the Republic of Moldova and develop and modernize the existing infrastructure. The new amendments will also contribute to ensuring energy security, lowering the price for e...

AmCham Moldova welcomes the extension until 2035 of the IT Park in the Republic of Moldova and the maintenance of the single tax of 7%. This is provided in the draft amendment to Law no. 77 dated 21.04.2016 regarding information technology parks, adopted by the Parliament. At the same time, the l...

During the meeting of December 21, the Government approved the amendment of the Regulation regarding the delegation of employees of entities from the Republic of Moldova approved by Government Decision no. 10/2012. The AmCham community actively participated in the Working Group for the review of ...

After more than four years of discussions, negotiations, working groups and meetings, the Government of the Republic of Moldova approved the amendments to the Regulation on the way of crossing the state border of goods subject to control by the National Food Safety Agency. The amendments were dev...

Stimulating e-commerce is a priority topic on AmCham's agenda. Thanks to the efforts made during the last few years, the association facilitated traders' activity with precious metals and gemstones. The condition regarding the sale of articles made of precious metals and gemstones in s...

The Parliament approved today the draft law to amend several normative acts (including, but not limited to, the law on limited liability companies and the law on joint-stock companies). The amendments relate, among others, to: - Regulation of shareholders' agreements - Regulation of shareho...

After more than five years of discussions and negotiations, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopted in the final reading the amendment to the Law on payment for environmental pollution. The AmCham Moldova community, together with other business associations, were actively involved in th...

On July 20, Parliament adopted the new state tax law. The draft state tax law was developed in the context of implementing the Strategy on ensuring the independence and integrity of the justice sector for the years 2022-2025. AmCham was the voice of business at the public consultations of the law...

It was a long and challenging process of negotiating the legislative changes; AmCham and peers from other business associations had a leading role in this process. New changes, with the negotiated amendments, represent the best result achieved in the interests of the business community and those ...

On July 7, the Parliament voted in the final reading the draft law no. 77/2023 amending Fiscal Code and the Law on the customs tariff The law clarified that, in all cases, products must be qualified in customs as medicines if they were previously registered in the State Nomenclature of Medicines ...

On July 7, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopted the Draft Law on participatory financing services (crowdfunding), which will make easier the connection between investors and those who need financing. AmCham Moldova worked, jointly with its partners, for more than 4 years on this documen...

The Government of the Republic of Moldova amended the health regulation on food supplements (link). The new provisions transpose the EU legislation into the national normative framework and will facilitate access to food supplements on the Moldovan market.  AmCham thanks the Ministry of H...

This should be achieved under the conditions of relaxation of the procedures related to the formation of prices of medicines, the permission of direct negotiation of prices with manufacturers, and the exclusion from the calculation of the lowest price of medicines in the reference states. In Mold...

On March 30, 2023, the Parliament adopted the draft law to amend the law on the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering and the Law on the Detection of Violations in the Field of Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. Thanks to the efforts made since the adoption and during ...

On March 2, 2023, the Parliament adopted in the final reading the draft law amending several normative acts (Administrative Offences Code, Road Traffic Safety Law). The draft law can be accessed at the following LINK. AmCham has actively promoted the exclusion from the draft law of the new bans o...