Parliament has the following basic tasks:

a) adopt laws, decisions and motions;

b) declare referendums;

c) interpret the laws and ensure the unity of the legislative regulations throughout the country;

d) approve the main directions of the internal and external policy of the State;

e) approves the military doctrine of the state;

f) exercise parliamentary control over executive power, in the forms and within the limits laid down in the Constitution;

g) ratify, denounce, suspend and annul the action of international treaties concluded by the Republic of Moldova;

h) approve the State budget and exercise control over it;

i) exercise control over the granting of State loans, economic and other aid to foreign states, the conclusion of agreements on State loans and loans from foreign sources;

j) elect and appoint state officials, in cases provided for by law;

k) approves the orders and medals of the Republic of Moldova;

(l) declare partial or general mobilisation;

m) declare a state of emergency, siege and war;

n) initiate the investigation and hearing of any matters relating to the interests of the company;

o) suspend the activity of local public administration bodies, in cases provided for by law;

p) adopt acts on amnesty;

r)performs other duties, established by the Constitution and laws.