Chisinau, November 22 (Infotag). Housing and profiled expert organizations in Moldova are dissatisfied with how the reform of the housing and utility sector is being implemented in Moldova. These organizations have proposals of their own on how to improve things in this sphere, and they actively discuss the proposals with a relevant parliamentary Standing Committee.

The European Institute of Moldova convened a news conference in Infotag on Tuesday, and Institute president Victor Doras stated, in particular, that “the entire reform is restricted to drafting the Condominium Law, which was adopted yet in 2000, but has not begun working since then”.

He is convinced this Law does not permit a proper management and regulation of the housing sphere, or a normal maintenance and exploitation of apartment houses. The amendments introduced to the document by the Government failed to improve the Law from the viewpoint of its practical using, but, on the contrary, only worsened it.

Victor Doras highlighted that the Law does not define strictly the ownership relationship or mechanisms of sector management and control. Therefore, the document provides oceans of possibilities for manipulations, swindling and abuse of the common housing property, but does not provide dwellers with even a slightest protection from such disorder, “so the dwellers have only one right – the right to pay and to bear responsibility, but have no real mechanism for governing their property”.

The Chairwoman of the Union of Housing Organizations, Alla Poltavchenko, presumes that the new amendments, being proposed into the Condominium Law, are only complicating the situation.

“Upon a mass-scale privatization, the housing stock maintenance enterprises have received onto their balance apartment houses that are 30 and more years old. There exist no programs or plans of their repair, operation or servicing, and no means for all this – huge means”, she said.

Poltavchenko pointed out that utility-service suppliers do not care about the maintenance of in-house mains, and do not partake in their repair, in a belief that this is the dwellers’ duty.

“Currently, there are several Laws regulating housing and utility activities. For instance, according to a recent governmental Resolution, utility service suppliers must conclude personal contracts with every household. However, such an organization of relations is strongly disadvantageous to both Termocom (municipal heating/hot-water distribution company) and Apa-Canal (municipal water company). They prefer to deal directly with housing stock maintenance enterprises, and, if and when necessary, to cut the whole multistory apartment house off the heating, cold or hot water supply instead of scandalizing with a handful of defaulter apartments in it”, Poltavchenko said.