Corruption Risks in State Inspections and Business Activity
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A study by Expert-Grup identifies the areas where corruption most affects the business environment in Moldova: obtaining permits and state control over entrepreneurial activity. The findings are backed by a focus group and by reports of the National Anticorruption Centre and the Court of Accounts, and point to weak regulation and low official integrity.
Reports on the sanitary and food safety agencies describe sanitary authorisations issued abusively or arbitrarily. In one integrity test, an inspector accepted 75 euro. In construction, the Court of Accounts found intentional violations, such as permits issued on the basis of expired land lease contracts and breaches of urban planning rules. The anticorruption centre notes that illegal construction is tolerated and later legalised.
For CEMT road transport permits, the commission reallocated them itself, contrary to Government Decision No. 257 of 28 April 2017, which requires electronic allocation. Minutes No. 12 of 19 April 2022 are cited as an example of forgery. State control is another sensitive area because business interacts most with the state there. Focus group participants described excessive, disproportionate and abusive interventions, which firms perceive as extortion or attempted business takeovers.
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