RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/ACC/MOL/13
23 June 1999
(99-2567)
Working Party on the
Accession of MoldovaOriginal:  English
ACCESSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
Information on Licence Authorization
The Ministry of the Economy of the Republic of Moldova has submitted the following list on
the types of activities needing Licence Authorizati on according to the draft Law on "Licensing certain
types of activities" with the request that it be circulated to Working Party members.
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List of types of activities, needing License Authorization
according to the Draft of Law on "Licensing certain types of activities"
1. Ministry of Economy and Reforms
(a) organization of external tourism;
(b) collection of technical remnants, containing non-ferrous materials;
(c) organization of stock exchange trade;
(d) the exercise of functions of administrator of contesting procedure and administrator
of re-organizing procedure.
2. The Treasury
(a) audit activity;
(b) activity in the field of insurance;
(c) Lombard functioning;
(d) organization and undertaking lotteries;
(e) maintaining casinos, exploitation of game machines with money gains, staking in
sports and other types of contests;
(f) activity, linked to state marking of articles, made of precious metals and precious
jewels and activity with precious metals and precious jewels;
(g) import and wholesale commercialization of spirits;
(h) import and wholesale commercialization of tobacco items;
(i) import and wholesale commercialization of  fuel and petrol;
(j) activity of economy and citizens’ loaning associations;
(k) activity of customs free deposits.
3. The  Ministry of Industry and Trade
(a) fabrication of chemical products,  chemical articles and products of house usage;
(b) the wholesale trade with goods of large usage;
4. The Ministry of Agriculture and Processing Industry
(a) production and commercialization with reproduction,  planting, bacciferous and
vineyard materials;
(b) production and commercialization with vegetable seeds, pumpkin crops, potatoes and
plain crops;
(c) projecting the fruit-growing, bacciferous  plantations and vineyard;
(d) production for the commercialization of biologic material of bovine, pork, sheep,
chicken, horses and fish;
(e) up-bringing of reproduction bovine, destined to commercialization;
(f) importation and commercialization of chemical and biological substances, as well as
of stimulators of plants growth;
(g) fabrication of biological substances, as well as of stimulators of plants growth;
(h) production, stocking and wholesale commercialization or just only stocking and
wholesale commercialization with spirits, including ethylic drinks and beer;
(i) processing of tobacco, production of tob acco items, wholesale commercialization,
including tobacco export.WT/ACC/MOL/13
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5. The Ministry of  Transports and Communications
(a) exploitation of auto transport for passenger traffics (with the exception of routs within
the city radius);
(b) exploitation of specialized auto transport, destined to the transportation of toxic,
explosive, and flammable  substances (after a coordination with the Department of
Standards, Metrology and Technical As sistance and the Department of Civil
Protection and Emergency Cases, and in some cases, with the institutions on sanitary
control);
(c) elaboration, assembly, installation, technical maintenance of television networks by a
cable or posts (stations) of radio diffusion and television by a radio-electric way;
(d) functioning of television networks by a cable or posts (stations) of radio diffusion and
television by a radio-electric way (technical licenses);
(e) offering express postal services regarding registered parcels;
(f) commercialization and exploitation of telecommunication, postal and informatics
equipment (type-authorizations).
6. The Ministry of Labor, Social and Family Protection
(a) organization of provisional abroad employment of citizens of the Republic of
Moldova, as well as the placement in the sphere of labor of citizens within the
territory of the Republic of Moldova.
7. The Ministry of Health
(a) the development of pharmaceutics activity;
(b) supplying technical assistance (with the exception of some activities, practiced
exclusively by state enterprises, organizations and institutions);
(c) researches, applied in the field of genetics and microbiology;
(d) fabrication, commercialization, purchase and custody of radioactive substances,
applied in medicine;
(e) fabrication, commercialization, technical assistance, repairs and  verification  of
technical and optic medicine articles;
(f) usage of potentially toxic substances, of chemical and biological ones, applied in
medicine.
8. The Ministry of Education and Science
(a) the establishment of educational institutions, of re-qualification and improvement
institutions and courses.
9. The Ministry of Culture
(a) organization of archeological projecting research works;
(b) elaboration of projects and the execution of conserving, restoring and valuation
works concerning historical monuments;
(c) commercialization with goods with artistic value and with antiquarian things.
10. The Ministry of Justice
(a) supplying juridical assistance;
(b) undertaking judiciary expertise;
(c) notary activity.WT/ACC/MOL/13
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11. The Ministry of Home Affairs
(a) the use of explosive substances, explosive and pyrotechnic means;
(b) repairs of sports and hunting weapons;
(c) private detective activity;
(d) instruction on different types and sorts of body-to-body wrestling, including on
martial arts;
(e) commercialization of different types of weapons and  equipment (exclusive licensing
of state enterprises);
(f) instruction and re-cycling of drivers of auto transport means;
(g) security insurance and protection activity;
(h) seals fabrication;
(i) import, export and re-export of weapons and respective equipment.
12. The Ministry of National Security
(a) elaboration, production and commercialization of ciphering technology, technical and
prophylactic assistance of ciphering means and of other special means for the
custody, processing, transmission, interception and registration of the information, for
the insurance of its authenticity, and offering ciphering services;
(b) the cryptographic and technical-engineering protection of information,
cryptoalgorithms  and cryptographic analysis;
(c) special revisions of technical means and equipment aiming at the protection against
the drain of information by technical channels;
(d) elaboration of ciphers;
(e) preparation of specialists in the field of cryptography.
13. The Ministry of Environment
(a) the usage and processing of remnants (except the technical remnants, containing non-
ferrous metals, the collection of which is licensed by the Ministry of Economy and
Reforms);
(b) the usage of natural resources (the collection and commercialization of spontaneous
plants, including medical plants, animal chase, except hunting fauna, acquisition of
animals, not constituting hunting and fishing objects (snails, snakes, frogs etc., the
industrial fishing in natural water pools);
(c) undertaking evaluative study of the impact upon the environment and the ecological
audit undertaking;
(d) the practice of  technologies of separating the components of the atmospheric air;
(e) hydro-meteorological observations.
14. The Ministry of Territory, Buildings and Communal Farms Development
(a) works on projecting all categories of constructions, including reconstruction, general
repairs, consolidating, modernization and restoration;
(b) execution of works of  constructing-assembling, rebuilding, general repairs,
modernization and restoration for all categories of constructions, including technical
networks and those of public utility;
(c) activity concerning the production of materials and building items.WT/ACC/MOL/13
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15. The Department of Standards, Metrology and Technical Assistance
(a) construction, assembly (including regulation), exploitation and repairs of objects from
mining industries, from the sectors with flammable and deflagration dangers, of
objects to be  deposed  and the manipulation within them with substances, able tocreate deflagrant messes of dust and air or of steam, of gas alimentation systems, of
lifting installations, of boilers, recipients, functioning under pressure as well as of
steam and hot water conducts (in case of necessity, there will be a coordination with
the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Cases);
(b) fabrication, assembly (including regulation) and repairs of the chemical, mineral,
anti-deflagrant and electric/thermal/energetic equipment;
(c) custody and usage of explosive industrial materials (in common agreement with the
Minister of Home Affaires);
(d) exploitation of useful mineral resources (with the exception of those of large
extension);
(e) the expertise of industrial products’(objects’) security, including the underground
and electric/thermal/energetic works;
(f) fabrication, repairs, verification, calibration, experimentation, exploitation and
commercialization of measuring means;
(g) the usage of underground with other purposes than the extraction of useful mineral
resources;
(h) execution of drilling works (except the technical building prospects);
(i) exploitation of sources and the bottling of mineral and potable waters;
(j) import, usage, deposit, commercialization of chemical reagents, liquid gases and of
chemically toxic substances (materials) and those, dangerous of being  deflagarant;
(k) deposit of fuel and lubricant materials (after a coordination with the Department of
Civil Protection and Emergency Cases);
(l) exploitation of petrol and gas alimentation stations (after a coordination with the
Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Cases);
(m) import, export, production and internal consume of substances, destroying the ozone
stratum, regulated by the Montreal Protocol, as well as of products, containing the
regulated substances;
(n) import, custody, exploitation and usage of ionized radiation sources of reagent
materials.
16. The Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Cases
(a) functioning of buildings, constructions, production establishments, the characteristics
of which can generate fires or explosions and of other congested objectives;
(b) drafting, assembly, regulation and the technical assistance of automatic systems of
fire prevention within the economical unites;
(c) certification and research of flammable and fire stimulation  properties of substances,
materials, articles of equipment and buildings in accordance with the rules of the
national certification system;
(d) creation of a department service of fire brigades within enterprises of civil protection
services formations (military, militarized, specialized, territorial, etc.);
(e) fabrication of techniques of emergency intervention in case of fire, of technical
equipment for fire putting out, of fire protection means, of means and equipment for
undertaking of operative works of salvation – de-blocking;
(f) transportation of regent materials;
(g) implementation of techniques of prevention and intervention in emergency situations;WT/ACC/MOL/13
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(h) drafting and serving the systems of prevention and intervention of emergency
situations, of establishments of civil protection and of systems of vital insurance;
(i) instruction and briefness in the field of civil protection.
17. The State Commission for the Market with  Security Papers
(a) professional activity with security papers;
(b) activity of the Security Market;
(c) activity of investments founds.
18. The District Executive Committees and the Municipal Mayoralties
(a) activity in the field of trade by detail and public alimentation;
(b) commercialization by detail with alcoholic production;
(c) commercialization by detail with tobacco items;
(d) passengers transportation in urban traffic, including taximeters;
(e) exploitation of useful mineral resources of large extension.
19. The National Agency for Survey, Land Resources and Geodesy
(a) topogeodesic and cartographic works upon the technical prospects of different types
of activities and technical complex prospects in constructions;
(b) activities linked to the field of the general land survey, the elaboration of
organizational projects of the territory and the ground evaluation;
(c) undertaking of equipment and estimation works of the immobile goods.
20. The Coordinating Council of the Audiovisual
(a) radio emissions;
(b) TV programmes.
21. The National Energy Regulatory Agency
(a) production transportation, dispatch, distribution and furnishing of electric energy in
regulated and non-regulated tariffs;
(b) production, distribution and furnishing of the thermal energy;
(c) production, stocking, transportation, distribution and furnishing of natural gases of
regulated and non-regulated tariffs.
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