Tiraspol, 12 July. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The Supreme Council has concluded its winter-spring session. In the first six months, MPs adopted 206 laws relating mainly to the social protection of citizens and business support. Speaker Alexander Scherba and heads of committees held a news conference to sum up the session results.
Scherba called the State Duma's declaration on Pridnestrovie on of the most important events of the season. This document, which calls upon the governments of Moldova and Ukraine to renounce any forms of pressure on Pridnestrovie, had been backed by 386 MPs.
According to the speaker, the Supreme Council's international contacts became more intense. In January, there was a meeting with the OSCE special representative, in February-March meetings with the delegations of the embassies of the USA, Sweden, Turkey, Germany, Great Britain. In July, the Supreme Council was visited by Austrian MPs. However, most of working meetings were held with Russian representatives.
The head of the committee on economics, budget and finance, Alexander Korshunov, described the work of MPs together with government members over the budget. The outcome of this work, he said, was a budget with balanced social protection items. The current task, according to Korshunov, was to stabilise the economy. The Supreme Council adopted during this period draft laws on currency regulation, stabilisation of the banking system, he noted. In the near future, he said, MPs would start working on a fiscal policy concept for several years and on a new investment law.
The committee on entrepreneurial and industrial development worked to improve the business climate, the committee's chair Viktor Guzun noted.
According to him, the parliament adopted laws expanding patent activities. In addition, the parliament introduced incentives and preferences for individual entrepreneurs, as well as defined the parameters of business entities. This makes it possible to analyse the problems of the business community more efficiently, Guzun explained.
An important step towards optimising services was a law on e-documents and digital signature, said Igor Buga, head of the committee on public associations, sports, information and youth policy. It would help to reduce bureaucracy and allow for a new level of government work, Buga said.
