Moldovan public property agency to switch from subordination of economics ministry to government's one

Chisinau, 11 October /MOLDPRES/ - The Public Property Agency (APP) will be   switched to the government’s subordination, with a status of central administrative authority, under a decision on the organization and work of APP, approved at a today’s cabinet meeting. 

Presently, the Public Property Agency is subordinated to the Economics and Infrastructure Ministry. Its reorganization is made in the context of the central public administration’s reform. “The agency is a central administrative authority, subordinated to the government, which implements the state’s policy in the fields of activity which are entrusted to it,” reads the regulation on the organization and work of the Public Property Agency, approved by the cabinet today.      

Under the document, the sectors concerning the management of the state’s public property assets, de-nationalization of the state’s public property, post-privatization, public-private partnerships, record of the public assets are within the competence of APP. Also, another power is ensuring the observance of the state’s patrimonial rights and interests.

The cabinet decision also stipulates that “government will put up the candidature for appointment to the office of head of state enterprise or commercial company with public capital or majority public capital, with a staff larger than 100 personnel units and a yearly average turnover of at least 20 million lei for the last three years, which will be established based on proposals by a governmental commission created on this purpose by cabinet decision.” 

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor L. Alcaza)