In accordance with the provisions of the Law on Amendments to Certain Regulatory Acts (Promotion of the Activities of the Entrepreneurial Environment VII) No. 27 of 27.02.2025, the following amendments have been made to the current regulatory acts:
Business and Enterprise Act No. 845/1992:
1) Article 7¹ shall be set out as follows:
- Business entities (except for savings and loan associations and non-bank credit institutions) are required to ensure the acceptance of non-cash payments in Moldovan lei through payment service providers licensed by the National Bank of Moldova. This obligation shall be fulfilled from July 1 of the following year in physical units (except for small retail chains), the sales volume of which during the previous calendar year in wholesale and/or retail trade and/or from the provision of services using cash register equipment exceeded 500,000 lei. This obligation also applies to information society service providers.
- The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply if:
- In the specified divisions, payments were made exclusively in non-cash form, with the exception of those made by licensed banks;
- The specified units are located in villages (communes), except for those that are part of municipalities and cities.
2) In Article 24, paragraph 4, exclude the following syntagma: From the day of publication in the Official Monitor of the Republic of Moldova of the announcement of the liquidation of an enterprise, the firm of this enterprise should be used with the addition of the words “in the process of liquidation”.
Law on the procedure for the publication and entry into force of official acts No. 173/1994:
1) In Article 5, the words “as well as economic entities” shall be excluded:
- Part IV – information on the registration, suspension and termination of the activities of parties, other socio-political and public organizations,
as well as business entities,information on the application of bankruptcy procedures for enterprises and organizations in accordance with the law.
Civil Code of the Republic of Moldova Law No. 1107/2002:
1) In Article 207, the words “in the Official Monitor of the Republic of Moldova” shall be excluded:
- (1) The executive body of a legal entity participating in the reorganization is obliged, within fifteen days from the date of the decision on the reorganization, to notify in writing all of its known creditors and publish
in the Official Monitor of the Republic of Moldova and, free of charge, on the official website of the state registration authority, an announcement of the reorganization.
2) In Article 228, the words “in the Official Monitor of the Republic of Moldova” shall be excluded:
- After registering his/her appointment, the liquidator publishes
in the Official Monitor of the Republic of Moldova and, free of charge, on the official website of the state registration authority, an announcement of the liquidation of the legal entity and, within fifteen days, notifies each creditor known to him/her of the liquidation of the legal entity and the deadline for filing claims.
Thus, it is no longer required to publish announcements of the reorganization, suspension and termination of activities of legal entities in the Official Monitor.
Law on state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs No. 220/2007:
1) Article 12: part (4) shall be excluded:
- (4) Branches of domestic legal entities shall be assigned state identification numbers similar to the state identification numbers of the legal entities that created them.
2) Article 24: part (2) shall be excluded:
- (2) Before submitting documents on exclusion from the State Register, a legal entity in the process of liquidation is obliged, at its own risk, to close its bank account(s) and submit its seal, if it has one, to the authorized body for destruction.
3) In Article 25, part (3) shall be set out as follows:
- The registrar in the field of state registration makes a decision on exclusion within 24 hours, calculated from the working day immediately following the day of receipt of the application for exclusion.
Limited Liability Companies Act No. 135/2007:
1) Article 13¹ shall be set out as follows:
- Article 131. Arbitration agreement
- (1) The articles of association may include an arbitration agreement for all or part of disputes that may arise between participants or between a participant and the company regarding the application of this law, the articles of association and the provisions of the company, as well as regarding the legality of decisions of the company’s bodies.
- (2) If the arbitration agreement is lawfully included in the charter, the new participant is considered to have given its irrevocable consent to its terms if, on the date of acquisition of the share in the authorized capital, a note was made in the State Register of Legal Entities regarding the inclusion of the arbitration agreement in the charter.
- (3) A note on the inclusion of an arbitration agreement in the company’s charter/on the exclusion of an arbitration agreement from the company’s charter must be entered into the State Register of Legal Entities within 30 days from the date of the change, with a direct indication of the presence of this clause in the charter.
2) Article 58, part (1), paragraph 2), subparagraph a) shall be set out as follows:
- 2) by two-thirds of the votes of all participants of the company, unless the charter provides for a greater or lesser number of votes, for:
- a) making amendments and additions to the charter, with the exception of decisions related to determining the relationship between the size of shares in the authorized capital, the contribution of a company participant to the authorized capital, the number of votes held by him, the inclusion of an arbitration agreement in the charter and the value of the portion of property remaining in the event of liquidation of the company, which are unanimously adopted by the company participants.
Law on State Supervision of Public Health No. 10/2009:
1) Article 23¹ part (9) point b) shall be set out as follows:
- b) a sanitary certificate for imported products, issued for a period of three years on the basis of supply contracts;
Law on the regime of foreigners in the Republic of Moldova No. 200/2010:
1) Article 43¹⁷ part (1), point d) shall be set out as follows:
- d) the work is performed on the basis of an individual employment contract concluded in writing, signed personally, or concluded in the form of an electronic document signed with a qualified electronic signature issued in accordance with the law.
Domestic Trade Act No. 231/2010:
1) Article 8, part (1) shall be set out as follows:
- (1) Traders engaged in wholesale trade , if necessary, have warehouses, organize the storage and processing of goods, replenish their stocks, provide information support, provide transportation and other services related to trade.
Law on the Regulation of Entrepreneurial Activity by Permit No. 160/2011:
1. Position 48 of Section II shall be set out as follows:
| № | Permit document | Issuing Authority | Involved bodies/entities | Price | Validity period |
| 48 | Permit for an advertising device (outdoor advertising device) | Local public authority | Agency of public services | For free | 5 years |
2. Position 30 of Section III shall be set out as follows:
| № | Permit document | Involved bodies/entities | Price | Validity period |
| 30 | Sanitary conclusion on products that affect public health | Agency of public services | For free | For serial production for domestic manufacturers – 3 years For imported products – 3 years For a batch of products – for the shelf life of the products |
