On Judicial Reform and Support for Enterprises

Meeting of the Presidium of the legislature started today unusually - by the Speaker Vadim Krasnoselsky congratulating on Epiphany. Chief of Staff of the Supreme Council Sergei Belous read a presidential decree on the appointment of an authorized representative of the president in the legislature Vladimir Bodnar to the participants. Then the deputies discussed the issues that intend to include in the agenda of the forthcoming plenary sessions.

This, in particular, is on the legislative initiative of deputies to amend the Constitution, as well as a number of constitutional laws governing the judiciary. The proposal is aimed at compliance with the principle of unity of the status of judges in Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. In particular, it is proposed to set the maximum age of a judge of the Constitutional Court - 65 years. Current legislation sets the age limit for appointment as judges of the Constitutional Court 58 years.

In addition, the plans of the responsible committee – consider how to make the powers of the Constitutional Court judges perpetual. This is due to shortage of professional judicial personnel. In this regard, the head of the profile Committee Galina Antyufeeva noted the need for a comprehensive approach to improving the judicial legislation, appropriate reforms.

As the head of the Committee on Economic Policy, Budget and Finance Aleksandr Martynov informed, its members recommended the deputies to adopt the legislative initiative of Alexander Korshunov in the second reading on the suspension of the "tax on losses". In addition, the Supreme Council received a similar legislative initiative of the President. The essence is the following: if the revenue from the sale of enterprises own production is not less than 70%, they are exempt from the payment of "tax on losses". The difference is that the president's initiative extends to 2015. The deputies of the profile committee consider that it should be extended current year, as well as to enterprise non-production sphere.

Members of the Bureau nominated representatives of the Supreme Council delegated to work in the councils of the state reserve fund, the Agrodevelopment Bank, the central bank. They will be approved tomorrow in plenary.

The next plenary meeting of the Supreme Council is scheduled for January 27.