Commission for Emergency Situations set new measures on effective management of energy crisis, support for refugees

Chisinau, April 4 /MOLDPRES/- The Ministry of Energy will set up a regulation on covering the shortage of solid biofuel, used in the heating season by social institutions. Later, the Agency for Energy Efficiency will draw up the list of beneficiaries and the allocated quantities, taking into account the installed power of the thermal plants. Members of the Commission for Emergency Situations /CSE/ made the adjustments at a new meeting, the government's communication and protocol department has reported.
According to the instruction, the validity period of the environmental authorization on waste management and the authorization for the emission of pollutants into the atmosphere from fixed sources was extended by September 30, 2023. The company is required to report the amount of pollutant emissions by the end of this month.
Another provision of the document refers to the suspension of the activity of the provisional Center for management of some influxes of foreigners on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, from Pârlița locality, Fălești district. The institution, under the management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will cease its activity from 3 April 2023.
Also, the Commission members intervened with a clarification in the Regulation on energy vulnerability categories and the method of establishing and paying compensations for energy bills. Thus, when determining the degree of energy vulnerability, the maintenance pension paid will not be excluded from the declared income. All degrees of energy vulnerability, established for November 2022 - March 2023 will be recalculated according to this norm by April 30.
Another decision is related to the allocation of financial means from the government's intervention fund to cover the expenses incurred for the management of the refugee crisis. Thus, 4.5 million lei will be distributed for the maintenance of temporary placement centers for refugees, established by local public authorities of the second level, and another 282 thousand lei - of the first level. 879 thousand lei will be allocated to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, in order to cover the operating costs of temporary placement centers for refugees, created by public institutions under the central public authorities, and 11.9 thousand lei will be distributed to the centers under the Ministry of Education and Research. At the same time, 295 thousand lei were allocated for the compensation to employees in the management of the refugee crisis.
At the same time, CSE members corrected the amount of financial allocations distributed to refugee centers for the activity carried out in October - December 2022.
The full text of the instruction of the Commission for Emergency Situations of 3 April 2023 can be followed on the government's website.
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