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Managerial Responsibility Statement of IP CMDA for 2024

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CMDA Public Procurement Plan for 2025

 

The following forms of business legal entities can currently be incorporated:

  • Individual enterprise
  • General partnership
  • Limited partnership
  • Joint stock company
  • Limited liability company
  • Production cooperative
  • Entrepreneurial cooperative

In general, the form of organisation of the business does not influence the type of activity to be carried out by a legal person. Certain types of activities expressly provided for by law may be carried out only on the basis of a licence issued by the public authorities.

Registration procedure

State registration of legal entities is carried out on working days within 24 hours. State registration of legal entities may be carried out on an emergency basis for 4 hours at the request of the applicant.

For the state registration of legal persons the following is required:

  • identity cards of the founders or their representatives, empowered by power of attorney authenticated in the manner established by law, and of the administrator of the legal entity
  • the application for registration according to the model approved by the state registration body
  • the decision of incorporation and the articles of incorporation of the legal person, depending on the legal form of organisation, in two copies
  • the opinion of the National Financial Market Commission – for insurance companies, non-state pension funds and savings and loan associations
  • the document confirming payment of the registration fee

For the state registration of legal entities with foreign investments, the application for registration shall additionally be accompanied by:

  • the extract from the register in which the foreign invested legal person is registered, translated and notarized
  • the incorporation documents of the foreign legal person

The documents listed for state registration of legal entities with foreign investments shall be submitted in original or in copies notarized and legalized by consular offices abroad, translated into the state language.

Foreign official documents, drawn up on the territory of the States Parties to the Convention on the Abolition of the Requirement of Superscription for Foreign Official Documents, done at The Hague on 05.10.1961, to which the Republic of Moldova is a Party, to which an apostille is applied under the conditions laid down in this Convention, shall be accepted for registration without additional superscription. This provision shall also apply in respect of extracts and copies thereof.

The only exception is documents issued by the authorities of the member countries of the CIS, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Hungary with which treaties have been concluded in this field, according to which these official documents are recognised in the territory of the country without apostille and superaddress.

Documents for state registration shall be drawn up in the state language and submitted to the state registration body by the founder or his representative, empowered by a power of attorney authenticated in the manner prescribed by law.

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