Republic of Moldova

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA WILL BENEFIT FROM EUROPEAN EXPERTISE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

Chişinău, 19 March 2010 –A mission of 9 high level policy advisers of the European Union will support the Government of Moldova in carrying out the democratic reforms and acceleration of association and further economic integration between EU and Moldova. The mission is the response of the European Union to the request of the Government of Moldova.

The experts will be deployed for a year to the main public institutions including the Prime Minister’s Office, State Chancellery, the Ministries of Economy, Finance, Justice, Interior, Agriculture and Food Industry, Tax Inspectorate and Public Procurement Agency.

The major objective of the mission is to support the democratic and sustainable development of Moldova through provision of high level policy advice in the overall implementation of the Government Programme “European Integration: Freedom, Democracy, Welfare” 2009-2013, with particular focus on the EU integration process, economic recovery and democratic reforms.

Prime Minister of Moldova, Vlad Filat, highlighted the importance of the mission for the democratic reforms of the state institutions while their employees will benefit from the best consultancy and expertise of the international consultants which will speed up the administrative reform.

Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova, Dirk Schuebel, noted that the project is complementing the series of actions undertaken by the EU in providing support to the Government of Moldova to carry out the administrative reforms and expressed his strong belief that the results of the EU advisors work with the key institutions of the country will be visible in a short period of time.

The mission triggered increased interested among the European experts that applied for the advisory positions. The total budget of the project is €1,596,217 funded by the European Union and co-funded and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme.

For contact: Daniel Diviricean, Communications Advisor to the Prime Minister of Moldova, Communications Officer of the Mission, tel. 250 251, mob. 068570687, email: daniel.diviricean@gov.md

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