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The assessment was granted within the Alternative report no. 2 "9 steps towards the opening of accession negotiations with the European Union", implemented by IPRE, Expert-Grup and CRJM, in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation Moldova (FES).
Commitment 7 establishes that the Ministry of Finance was to carry out 3 actions, which refer to:
1. Ensuring the transparency of the process of initiating, carrying out and awarding low-value public procurement contracts;
2. Establishing a procedure for identifying eligible public investment projects and expanding the scope of the existing public investment management framework to include projects implemented by the state budget, projects with external financing and extrabudgetary funds;
3. Approval of a new Strategy for the development of public finance management based on evidence and the principles of good governance.
All three actions were implemented according to the monitoring indicators and respected the legislative creation procedures and the provisions of the Law on transparency in the decision-making process.
Accordingly, the Regulation on low-value public procurement was approved by Government Decision No. 870 of 14.12.2022 , in force from 01.07.2023. The Regulation transposes the updates made to Law no. 131/2015 on public procurement and ensures consistency with the provisions of Law no. 74/2020 on procurement in the energy, water, transport and postal services sectors.
At the same time, the Regulation on public capital investment projects was approved by Government Decision No. 684 of 29.09.2022 , in force from 21.10.2022. According to the Regulation, the Ministry of Finance is responsible for determining the eligibility of new public capital investment projects, based on the proposals presented by the budget authorities. A working group (composed of representatives of the Ministry of Finance) ensures the examination and confirmation of the eligibility of new capital investment projects to be included in the draft CBTM/state budget law, based on the requirements established in annex no. 2 to the regulation and according to a scoring method.
And, the 2023-2030 Public Finance Management Development Strategy was approved by Government Decision No. 71 of 22.02.2023 , in force from 07.03.2023.
