DECISION approving the Specific Additional National Plan for Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Human Beings for the years 2010-2011

No. 1170 of December 21, 2010

Official Monitor No.259-263/1315 of December 31, 2010

* * * Pursuant to the Law No. 241-XVI of October 20, 2005 on prevention and combating of trafficking in human beings (Official Monitor of the Republic of , 2005, No.164-167, art.812), with subsequent amendments and additions, the Government DECIDES: 1. To approve the Specific Additional National Plan on Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Human Beings for the years 2010-2011 (annexed). 2. Funds necessary to accomplish objectives provided in the Specific Additional Plan approved under Section 1 of this Decision shall be ensured by each line institution, in correlation with accomplishment terms, priorities and available resources, and will be included in their budgets. 3. Ministries, other central administrative authorities and local public administration authorities, responsible for the implementation of the planned measures, shall present to the National Committee for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings quarterly reports on the accomplishment of the National Plan on Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Human Beings for the years 2010-2011.

PRIME MINISTER Vladimir FILAT

Countersigned: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Exterior and European Integration Iurie Leanca Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar Minister of Interior Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family Minister of Education Minister of Healthcare Minister of Culture Boris Focsa Minister of Informational Technologies and Communications Minister of Finances Veaceslav Negruta

Chisinau, 21 December 2010. No.1170.

Approved by Government Decision No.1170 of December 21, 2010

SPECIFIC PLAN additional to the Plan for Prevention and Combating of trafficking in human beings for 2010-2011

Strategic goals Specific goals and Activities/ Structures Partners Term for Sources Expected results objectives sub-activities responsible for accomplishment budgetary other implementation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1. Investigating cases of involvement of public servants in trafficking in human beings, charging and convicting such persons Investigating cases Proving guilt and Consolidating the Ministry of Permanent Investigated and of complicity by convicting public capacities of law Interior/ Center for convicted cases of public servants in servants, who have enforcement bodies in Combating trafficking in human crimes relating to facilitated the crime of identifying public servants Trafficking in beings trafficking in trafficking in human involved in cases of Persons; human beings beings trafficking in human General beings Prosecutor’s Office; Intelligence and Security Service Collecting during criminal Ministry of Permanent Firm evidence investigation firm evidence Interior/ Center for collected proving the guilt of public Combating servants involved in cases Trafficking in of trafficking in human Persons; beings General Prosecutor’s Office; Creating and monitoring an General Quarterly Report Monitoring and evaluation mechanism for Prosecutor’s evaluation report criminal proceedings of Office submitted to the trafficking in human National Committee beings (commenced, for Trafficking in discontinued, finalized by Human Beings issuance of a sentence), where crimes have been facilitated/assisted by public servants, which would include keeping record of complaints/notices of such cases Intensifying cooperation of Ministry of International Permanent Civil society, law enforcement bodies Interior/ Center for Organization for including mass- with the mass-media and Combating Migration; media, cooperating civil society in respect of Trafficking in Center for with law enforcement preventing impunity and Persons; Prevention of bodies in respect of combating corruption in Ministry of Labor, Trafficking in preventing impunity cases of trafficking in Social Protection Women; and combating human beings and Family; civil society corruption in cases of General organizations trafficking in human Prosecutor’s and associations; beings Office mass-media institutions Analyzing the causes and Ministry of Justice International 2010-2011 Accomplished study punishments applied for Organization for the crimes of trafficking in Migration, human beings, also in the Supreme Court light of the involvement of of Justice public servants in facilitating/assisting crimes Creating an Improving the existent Reviewing and, as the case General Supreme Court Semester I Budgetary Developed draft laws intolerant attitude investigation may be, making proposals Prosecutor’s of Justice 2011 funds towards any illicit mechanism both under for legislation amendment Office; involvement of legislative and (legislative review in Center for public servants in institutional perspective, respect of applying Combating cases of in accordance with the proactive investigation Economic Crimes trafficking in following principles: measures, developing draft and Corruption; human beings efficiency, promptness, laws for the amendment of Intelligence and complex the Law on investigation Security Service; (multidisciplinary) and search activity and of Ministry of approach, legality, the Criminal Procedure Interior; observance of human Code) Ministry of Justice rights and freedoms, continuity of criminal proceedings Improving the existent Reviewing the existent Ministry of Supreme Court Semester I Budgetary Accomplished criminal prosecution criminal prosecution Interior; of Justice 2011 funds studies; draft laws mechanism under system: evaluating the Center for legislative and possibility to exclude the Combating institutional perspective, criminal prosecution body Economic Crimes with a view to excluding from criminal proceedings; and Corruption; useless elements increasing the leading and Customs Service; coordinating role of the General prosecutor in criminal Prosecutor’s proceedings Office; Ministry of Justice Improving the Creating a functional Presenting to the National National 2011 Extra- Created and information centralized database, Committee for Trafficking Committee for budgetary functional database; collection process operated by the in Human Beings Trafficking in sources members of National with respect to Secretariat of the proposals for creating a Human Beings; Secretariat trained in cases of National Committee for mixed working group, Ministry of database management trafficking in Trafficking in Human formed of representatives Interior; human beings at Beings of the General Prosecutor’s Intelligence and all stages of Office, the Ministry of Security Service; criminal Interior, the Frontier Guard proceedings, Intelligence and Security Service; including Service, the Frontier Guard Ministry of investigation, Service, with a view to Justice; prosecution, examining the possibility Permanent conviction and to create a joint database of Secretariat sentences law enforcement bodies, established for meant to support the persons found efforts to collect guilty of crimes information on cases of related to trafficking in human trafficking in beings at all stages of human beings criminal proceedings, including information from state border-crossing spots Ensuring Creating and developing Developing an efficient General Semester I Budgetary Collaboration accessibility and the national centralized mechanism for information Prosecutor’s 2011 funds agreements and exchange of record-keeping system exchange between tasked Office; protocols containing information on for data on trafficking in institutions and involved Ministry of provisions on data preventing and human beings nongovernmental Interior; exchange combating organizations Ministry of trafficking in Justice; human beings at Ministry of Labor, national and Social Protection international and Family levels Establishing joint Ministry of Established joint indicators for keeping track Interior; indicators of data on persons Ministry of involved in trafficking in Justice; human beings Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family; General Prosecutor’s Office Creating an interconnected General Semester II Budgetary Developed system system between Prosecutor’s 2011 funds institutions tasked with the Office; investigation, criminal Ministry of prosecution and trial of Interior; criminal cases relating to Center for trafficking in human Combating beings Economic Crimes and Corruption 2. Assistance and protection of victims of trafficking in persons Granting Identifying and Increasing financial Ministry of 2011 An Increased financial assistance and protecting children and allotments for the co- Finances; increase by allotments protection to adults – victims of financing of the Center for Ministry of Labor, 555,1 victims of trafficking in human assistance and protection Social Protection thous Lei trafficking in beings of victims and potential and Family human beings victims of trafficking in human beings in accordance with the Budgetary Framework for the years 2011-2013 Allotting financial means Ministry of International 2011 100 thous Allotted funds in accordance with the Finances Organization for Lei Budgetary Framework for Migration; the years 2011-2013 for “Terre des the purpose of repatriating Hommes” unaccompanied children, Foundation; as well as children and International adults - victims and Center “La potential victims of Strada” trafficking in human beings and trafficking in illegal migrants Expanding international Ministry of International 2010-2011 Concluded and collaboration in the field Interior; Center “La executed bilateral with a view to identifying Ministry of Labor, Strada” agreements; and protecting possible Social Protection developed victims of trafficking in and Family; international human beings, also by Intelligence and collaboration means of entering into Security Service bilateral agreements in this respect Rendering repatriation Ministry of Labor, 2010 100 thous Rendered repatriation services to unaccompanied Social Protection Lei services children, as well as to and Family 2011 100 thous vulnerable persons abroad, Lei to victims of trafficking in human beings (adults and children) and of trafficking in illegal migrants Institutional protection of Causeni Rayon 2011 373,5 Ensured institutional persons from the Council; thous Lei protection for victims Transdniestrian region who Territorial of trafficking in have suffered from Causeni human beings from trafficking in human Commission for the Transdniestrian beings combating region trafficking in human beings Improving the Operating amendments in Ministry of 2011 Number of reviewed protection system for legislative and normative Interior and adjusted children-victims of acts in order to regulate legislative acts in trafficking in human and adjust procedures for respect of the hearing beings, encouraging law hearing minors-victims of procedure for victims enforcement bodies to trafficking in human of trafficking in request consultations beings in specially- human beings from NGO experts equipped premises, by means of a specialist (psycho-pedagogue) and, as the case may be, with the participation of the criminal prosecution officer, of the prosecutor or of the judge 3. National and international cooperation Improving Implementing the Expanding the National Ministry of Labor, International 2010 Extra- Training personnel cooperation provisions of the Referral System to five Social Protection Organization for budgetary and accordingly between territorial National Referral rayons and Family Migration; sources equipping workplaces commissions for System (NRS) Strategy UN Population for five combating for the protection and Fund multidisciplinary trafficking in assistance of the victims teams human beings and and potential victims of law enforcement trafficking in human bodies beings, approved by Parliament Decision No. 257-XVI of December 5, 2008 On-going monitoring of Continuing joint work Secretariat of the International Permanent Extra- Number of work the activity of territorial sessions of territorial National Organization for budgetary sessions within commissions for commissions with the Committee for Migration; sources territorial combating trafficking in representatives of law Trafficking in Organization for commissions; number human beings and enforcement bodies, local Human Beings; Security and of minutes; number training their members public authorities and civil territorial Cooperation in of on-site visits society commissions for Europe combating trafficking in human beings Organizing training and Secretariat of the International Permanent Extra- Number of trained good practice exchange National Organization for budgetary members of territorial seminars for territorial Committee for Migration; sources commissions commissions Trafficking in Organization for Human Beings; Security and territorial Cooperation in commissions for Europe trafficking in human beings Signing multilateral Developing and applying a National Semester I Developed and cooperation template multilateral Committee for 2011 approved template memorandums between cooperation memorandum Trafficking in multilateral entities in the field of (typified document) Human Beings; cooperation prevention and territorial memorandum combating of trafficking commissions for in human beings combating (territorial commissions trafficking in for combating human beings; trafficking in human Ministry of beings, Interior; multidisciplinary teams Center for and NGOs present Combating within the territories) Trafficking in and law enforcement Persons; bodies of territorial level Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family; nongovernmental organizations Negotiating and adopting National 2010- 2011 Number of the multilateral Committee for negotiations; adopted cooperation memorandum Trafficking in multilateral Human Beings; memorandum territorial commissions for combating trafficking in human beings; Ministry of Interior; Center for Combating Trafficking in Persons; Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family; nongovernmental organizations Organizing periodical Holding periodic meetings National Permanent Number of work meetings of territorial with the participation of Committee for sessions; number of organizations in the territorial commissions for trafficking in meetings; experience field of anti-trafficking combating trafficking in human beings; sharing between with a view to human beings and law territorial territorial coordinating actions and enforcement bodies, during commissions for commissions for improving collaboration which there should be combating combating trafficking addressed problems and/or trafficking in in human beings system innovations human beings; pertaining to prevention Ministry of and combating of Interior; trafficking in human Center for beings, requiring Combating interventions at the level of Trafficking in municipal/ rayon policies Persons; and/or at legislative level Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family Discussing/joint solving of National Permanent Work sessions; cases of trafficking in Committee for roundtables; sharing human beings which, due Trafficking in good practices to their complexity or Human Beings; gravity, require the territorial intervention of decision- commissions for makers from territorial combating commissions for trafficking in combating trafficking in human beings; human beings Ministry of Interior; Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family 4. Awareness-raising and information Organizing Awareness-raising of Accomplishing awareness- Ministry of Labor, International 2011 From partner Children from awareness-raising public at large on raising measures in Social Protection Organization for resources residential and population prevention of trafficking residential institutions for and Family Migration; institutions informed information in human beings children, by means of Center of child’s on the subject of campaigns, social theatre (interactive rights prevention of targeted at peer-to-peer educational information and trafficking in human children from tool) on the subject of documentation beings and violence residential trafficking in human institutions and beings and violence most vulnerable Organizing informative Ministry of Labor, International 2011 Informative Children from population layers and orientation sessions Social Protection Organization for materials residential with regard to the dangers and Family; Migration offered by the institutions informed of trafficking in human territorial International on the dangers of beings for graduates of multidisciplinary Organization trafficking in human residential institutions; teams for Migration beings distributing informative materials Society awareness-raising Ministry of 2010-2011 Number of shows and with regard to trafficking Culture spectators, of in human beings by means exhibitions and of cultural and artistic visitors works Organizing and holding Ministry of 2011 Number of organized awareness-raising Interior; and held awareness- campaigns for minors with Ministry of Labor, raising campaigns respect to the risks and Social Protection consequences of and Family trafficking in children Informative campaign Ministry of Youth Members of the 2010 30 thous Central and local “Youth is a resource” and Sports National Lei public authorities; Committee for institutions in the coordinating field of education and activities science, commercial dedicated to the entities, International entrepreneurs and Year of Youth businessmen (2010-2011) informed and aware of the possibility to exploit the potential of children and youth; informed children and youth on the subject of trafficking in human beings