This review of the budget process of the Republic of Moldova was carried out as part
of the work programme of the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials. In 2004, the
Working Party established the Network of Senior Budget Officials of Central, Eastern and
South-Eastern European (CESEE) countries. Budget reviews serve as a basis for examination
of a country’s budget institutions by the network in its annual meetings, and enable the
participants to discuss the budget procedures of a country in depth.
A team of the OECD Secretariat consisting of Dr. Dirk Kraan (head), Mrs. Valentina
Kostyleva and Mr. Colin Forthun, supported by Ms. Jutta Albrecht (consultant from
German Technical Co-operation) and Mr. Ragnar Olofsson (consultant from the Swedish
Ministry of Finance), undertook a mission to Chisinau from 9-12 March 2010 to prepare
the review. During its mission, the team met with Mr. Veaceslav Negruta, Minister of
Finance; Mrs. Maria Caraus, Vice Minister of Finance; Mrs. Nina Lupan, Vice Minister of
Finance; Mr. Victor Barbaneagra, Vice Minister of Finance; Mr. Vasile Bulicanu, Budget
Director; Mrs. Angela Voronin, State Treasury Director; Mrs. Dina Rosca, Assistent Director
of Co-ordination and Generalisation of Budgetary Policy; Mrs. Liuba Ivanciucova, Assistant
Director of the General Budget Directorate and Head of the State Budget and National
Public Budget Division; Mrs. Emilia Prujanskaia, Assistant Director of the General Budget
Directorate and Head of the Macro-financial Analysis and Forecast Division; Mrs. Nadejda
Slova, Director of the National Public Budget Reporting Directorate of the State Treasury;
Mrs.Ala Cislaru, Head of the Administrative-Territorial Units Budget Division of the General
Budget Directorate; Mrs. Marina Semeniuc, Head of the Health Care and Social Protection
Division of the General Budget Directorate; Mrs. Svetlana Bortoi, Head of the Education,
Culture and Science Division of the General Budget Directorate; Mr. Ion Sirbu, Director for
the Harmonisation of the Internal Financial Public Control System; and other officials of the
Ministry of Finance.
The OECD team also met with Mr. Stefan Creanga, Director of the Public Procurement
Agency; Mr. Valeriu Sava, Director of Budget and Finance Policy, and other officials of the
Ministry of Health; Mr. Sobari Ion, Director of Economic Policies, Patrimony and Finances,
and other officials of the Ministry of Education; and Mr. Ruslan Codreanu, Director of Policy,
Strategic Planning and External Assistance, Mrs. Tamara Gheorghita, Director of Personnel
Policy, and other officials of the State Chancellery.
Furthermore, the OECD team met with Mrs. Elizaveta Foca, President of the Court of
Accounts; Mrs. Valentina Vazdautan, Assistant Director of General Municipal Finance and
Budget Director of the City of Chisinau; and Mr.Valeriu Guma, member and secretary of the
parliamentary Committee on Economy, Budget and Finance.
Finally the OECD team spoke with Mr. Valeriu Prohnitchi, Executive Director of the
independent research institute “Expert Group”.