Experts recommend establishing viticulture and wine chamber
The current crisis of the Moldovan wine industry has not a conjuncture-caused but a structural character, and can only be overcome upon a comprehensive revision of legislative and regulatory framework operation. This is the opinion of Diana Lazar, a winemaking legislation expert, who has proposed to found a National Chamber for Viticulture and Wine (NCVW) to facilitate a thorough structural reform in the sector.
This conclusion has been formulated in Lazar's research called "Re-Think Wine Sector", carried out with the assistance of the Viticulture and Winemaking Managers' Association and the Moldovan Oenologists Union in collaboration with the Competitiveness Enhancement and Enterprise Development Project (CEED) financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Diana Lazar said at the research presentation that such Chamber should be invested with a certain part of the authority to regulate and manage the vine and wine sector, whereas the functions of policy conceiving, elaboration and implementation should remain with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry. Quality control should also be in the competence of the State.
In her opinion, the Chamber should function on the basis of its Regulations approved by the Government, and should consist of 11 appointed members, who will be electing their Director General.
Lazar suggests abolishing licenses for wine companies, offering to replace them with a compulsory registration with the NCVW Register of Vine and Wine NCVW and with the corresponding cadastre registers run by regional authorities.
"Establishing of such Chamber will be an example of effective partnership between the Government and private sector", said the lawyer.
Deputy Prime Minister Valeriu Lazar shared her view, and said that the sector's crisis started not in 2006 with the wine embargo imposed by Russia, and not even in 2009 together with the global financial crisis, but much earlier. Simply, the subsequent developments have revealed the industry's systemic problems.
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