The National Participation Council (CNP) called on the Cabinet to exclude the bill on the creation of a register of technical-urbanistic infrastructure facilities from the agenda of its November 6 sitting.

CNP public policy consultant Elena Terzi, in a news conference at IPN, said such a law is needed as it will strengthen the financial capacities of the entrepreneurial sector, will stabilize the ownership right regime and will create a more predictable regime for public intervention in infrastructure. However, the informative note to the bill does not clearly say what will be the costs of state registration of a very large number of infrastructure facilities for the business sector. The analysis of the regulation impact is absent.

The bill wasn’t proposed for public debates. It must be discussed first of all with the business sector, which will have to assume more responsibilities when the bill is adopted. Elena Terzi also said that there is no analysis of the costs for the national economy. There weren’t identified possible solutions for ameliorating the impact on the business sector. Another aspect is the time when the bill will take effect. 

As regards another bill from the agenda, CNP chairman Sergiu Ostaf said that civil society is for amending the Criminal Code with a view to improving the fight against corruption. But, according to civil society, the possibility of replacing criminal accountability with administrative accountability must be removed from the bill. The provision allowing tapping the phone of a person who was not officially charged should be annulled.

CNP consultant on economic policies Victoria Vlad said civil society backs the bill on the access to information in the public sector, included in the agenda of the Government’s meeting, but it must be improved. The public authorities should be obliged to keep a full register, with all the data and information they possess. For the information of public interest to become accessible, it must be presented in an electronic format that can be easily accessed. Civil society also urged the public authorities to update the information of public interest at least once a month.