The producer’s drug prices registration service of the Ministry of Health has registered about 4,000 types of medications at prices that are by up to 50% lower than before the application of the new norms. This will enable to considerably decrease the prices of drugs from next January, it is said in a communiqué from the Government, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. In Wednesday’s meeting of the Government, the head of the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime Viorel Chetraru said the prices of only 15 of the over 16,000 types of drugs allowed to be sold in Moldova have increased by 3-4%. According to him, these increases result from the application, sometimes illegal, of the old rules of registering the import prices in customs. Prime Minister Vlad Filat proposed creating a national agency that would monitor how the prices of all the goods and services are formed on the national market. He demanded thoroughly analyzing the work of the institutions that are now responsible for monitoring the formation of prices. In a news conference at Info-Prim Neo on Tuesday, businessman Fiodor Ghelici, the head of the NGO “Moldova Mea”, said the prices of drugs have increased after the Government last week decided to remove the medications from the list of socially important goods the profit margin on which is regulated. Despite the promises that the drugs will become cheaper made by the authorities, their prices have increased since May, he said. A drug in different drugstores can be sold at prices that differ by about 100 lei.