Certificate for craftsmen

Masters of folk and artistic crafts who preserve the ancestral traditions of the peoples living in Pridnestrovie will be able to receive a certificate confirming their status. If they have this document, craftsmen will be able to sell their products at exhibitions, fairs and festive events on a city and republican scale, or leave their works for sale to shops selling souvenirs. They will not pay income tax however.

Supporting folk arts and crafts, preserving traditions and creating conditions for the development of all types of folk art and creativity in the field of culture, this is one of the points of the Development Strategy of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. It is necessary to eliminate the legal gap in the law “On Folk Arts and Crafts” to implement the instructions of the PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky. The Government has developed law-in-draft; its purpose was explained to parliamentarians by the head of the State Service for Culture and Historical Heritage Maria Kyrmyz in the course of the plenary meeting of the Supreme Council.

Certificates will be issued to craftsmen in the manner established by the State Service for Culture. Not all craftsmen will be able to receive such a document, but only those who preserve the ancestral traditions of the peoples living in Pridnestrovie. The Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Public Associations, Sports, Information and Youth Policy Igor Buga spoke in support of the adoption of the law-in-draft in the course of the plenary meeting.

Additions to the Law of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic “On Folk Arts and Crafts” were adopted in the first reading. Taking into account the comments, the law-in-draft will be finalized for the second reading.