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Information Technology Parks Law
Law regarding the information technology parks
Art.
11(1) The Ministry of Economy shall examine the application for the establishment of the park and the attached documents within 30 calendar days of their submission.
(2) If several applicants submit applications at the same time, they shall be examined in the order of submission, taking into account the date and time of receipt.
(3) If the documents submitted do not meet the requirements stipulated in Article 10, the Ministry of Economy may request the submission of corrected documents and information. In this case, the time limit referred to in para. (1) shall be extended by 15 calendar days from the date of the additional request made by the Ministry of Economy.
(4) If the applicant fails to submit the corrected documents and information within the time limit provided for in paragraph (3) or repeatedly submits documents that do not meet the requirements stipulated in Article 10, the Ministry of Economy shall inform him/her, in a written notice, of the refusal to satisfy his/her request for the establishment of the park, with the mandatory indication of the reasons for refusal.
(5) In the event that a preventive decision on the establishment of the park is taken following the examination of the application, the Ministry of Economy shall submit to the Government for approval the draft of the respective decision, together with the draft Regulation on the organization and functioning of the Park Administration and the draft Regulation on the registration of park residents, and shall inform the applicant in a written notice about the initiation of the procedure for the establishment of the park.
Art.
11(1) The Ministry of Economic Development and Digitization shall examine the application for the establishment of the park and the attached documents within 30 calendar days of their submission.
(2) If several applicants submit applications at the same time, they shall be examined in the order of submission, taking into account the date and time of receipt.
(3) If the documents submitted do not meet the requirements stipulated in Article 10, the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitization may request the submission of corrected documents and information. In this case, the time limit referred to in para. (1) shall be extended by 15 calendar days from the date of the additional request made by the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitization.
(4) If the applicant fails to submit the corrected documents and information within the time limit provided for in paragraph (3) or repeatedly submits documents that do not meet the requirements stipulated in Article 10, the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitization shall inform him/her, in a written notice, of the refusal to satisfy his/her request for the establishment of the park, with the mandatory indication of the reasons for refusal.
(5) In the event that a preventive decision on the establishment of the park is taken following the examination of the application, the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitization shall submit to the Government for approval the draft of the respective decision, together with the draft Regulation on the organization and functioning of the Park Administration and the draft Regulation on the registration of park residents, and shall inform the applicant in a written notice about the initiation of the procedure for the establishment of the park.
Art.
IArt. I. - Law No.77/2016 on Information Technology Parks (Official Monitor of the Republic of Moldova, 2016, No. 157-162, Art. 318), as amended, is hereby amended as follows:
1. In the content of the Law, the phrase "Ministry of Economy" in any grammatical form shall be replaced by the phrase "Ministry of Economic Development and Digitization" in the corresponding grammatical form.
2. In Article 6(3), the words "as well as from other legal revenues resulting from the duties referred to in Article 13(h) and (l)" shall be replaced by the words "revenues resulting from the duties referred to in Article 13(h) and (l), as well as from other revenues from the exercise by the Administration of its duties".
3. In Article 7, paragraph (4) shall read as follows:
"(4) Residents of the Park, being registered and having their registered office (legal address) in the Republic of Moldova, shall carry out, as their main activity, one or more of the activities referred to in Article 8, including through employees performing remote work on the territory of the Republic of Moldova and/or outside it."
4. Article 8:
in the introductory part, the text "in accordance with CAEM rev.2" is replaced by the text "in accordance with CAEM-2";
the following points o) and p) are added to the Article:
"(o) Motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities (59.12), exclusively for the computer games industry, limited to the following services:
- digital color correction and rewrapping services (59.12.13);
- sound editing and design services (59.12.17);
(p) sound recording and music publishing activities (59.20), exclusively for the computer game industry, limited to original sound recordings (59.20.13)."
5. In Article 13, point (a) is deleted.
6. Article 18:
paragraph 1 shall be supplemented by the following statement: "The obligation to carry out the verification and submit the results thereof shall be incumbent on any resident of the park who has applied the special tax scheme for at least one month during a calendar year."
in paragraph 2, after the words "Park administration," the following text is inserted "in coordination with the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitisation,".
7. In Article 19(1)(e), the text "no longer meets the conditions for qualification as a resident of an information technology park, provided for by this Law" is replaced by the text "does not meet at least one of the indicators required for acquiring and maintaining the status of a resident of an information technology park, provided for by this Law".