Government Decision No. 579 of 09.07.2025 on the functioning of the National Crisis Management Centre

Published: 12-09-2025 in the Official Gazette No. 482-485, art. 596

Pursuant to Article 7(d) of Law No. 136/2017 on the Government (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2017, No. 252, art. 412), as amended, Article 17(1) of Law No. 98/2012 on central specialised public administration (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2012, No. 160-164, art. 537), as amended, and Article 39(3) of Law No. 248/2025 on crisis situation management (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2025, No. 437-440, art. 600), the Government DECIDES:

1. The National Crisis Management Centre, a central administrative authority subordinate to the Government, is hereby established.

2. The following are approved:

2.1. The Regulation on the organisation and functioning of the National Crisis Management Centre, in accordance with Annex No. 1;

2.2. The Structure of the National Crisis Management Centre, in accordance with Annex No. 2;

2.3. The Amendments to certain Government Decisions, in accordance with Annex No. 3.

3. The staff limit of the National Crisis Management Centre is set at 30 personnel units, with an annual remuneration fund in accordance with legislation.

4. Within 30 days of appointment, the General Director of the National Crisis Management Centre shall issue an order establishing the standard duties of the crisis management preparedness coordinators and 24/7 contact points within public authorities and institutions.

5. Public authorities and institutions shall, within 45 days of the entry into force of this decision, ensure the establishment, in accordance with Law No. 248/2025 on crisis situation management, of a crisis management preparedness coordinator function, as well as a 24/7 crisis management contact point, within the approved staff limits.

6. This decision shall enter into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova.

PRIME MINISTER Dorin RECEAN

Countersigned:

Minister of Internal Affairs Daniella Misail-Nichitin

No. 579. Chișinău, 10 September 2025.

Annex No. 1
to Government Decision No. 579/2025

1. The Regulation on the organisation and functioning of the National Crisis Management Centre (hereinafter - Regulation) governs the mission, functions, areas of activity and rights thereof, as well as the manner in which its activity is organised.

2. The National Crisis Management Centre (hereinafter - Centre) is the central administrative authority subordinate to the Government that coordinates, at national level, all crisis management activities in the fields of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery from crises and major crises.

3. The Centre is a legal entity under public law, headquartered in Chișinău municipality, having a name, a stamp bearing the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Moldova, treasury accounts, as well as other attributes specific to public authorities, as established by legislation.

4. The financing and technical-material support of the Centre's activity shall be provided from the funds allocated in the state budget law and from funds from other sources, in accordance with legislation.

5. In its activity, the Centre is guided by the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, Law No. 98/2012 on central specialised public administration, Law No. 136/2017 on the Government, Law No. 248/2025 on crisis situation management and other normative acts.

6. The Centre's mission is to contribute to the achievement of the Government programme's objectives by implementing the Government's public policies in the fields of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery in crisis situations and major crises, as well as by ensuring inter-institutional coordination and communication in these fields.

7. The Centre performs the functions established in this Regulation in the fields of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery from crises and major crises.

8. The core functions of the Centre are:

8.1. developing public policy documents and draft normative acts in the areas referred to in point 7, including those for ensuring the implementation of normative acts and decrees of the President of the Republic of Moldova, as well as monitoring their implementation;

8.2. cooperating, in accordance with national legislation, with relevant institutions from abroad in the fields referred to in point 7;

8.3. applying normative acts and implementing international treaties to which the Republic of Moldova is a party in the fields referred to in point 7, as well as preparing reports on their execution;

8.4. harmonising, jointly with the central specialised bodies, national legislation (transposition and implementation) with the EU acquis, for implementing the requirements for the Republic of Moldova's accession to the European Union in the fields referred to in point 7;

8.5. endorsing draft normative acts developed by other public administration authorities;

8.6. exercising competences and responsibilities in the field of public finances in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 181/2014 on public finances and budgetary-fiscal responsibility;

8.7. organising the process of planning, execution, accounting and budget reporting within the Centre;

8.8. providing decision-making support to the Prime Minister and the National Crisis Management Commission in the field of crisis situation management and resilience;

8.9. ensuring assistance to the National Security Council in all phases of crisis management and crises generated by threats to national security;

8.10. performing the secretariat function for the National Crisis Management Commission and the National Crisis Response Platform;

8.11. coordinating and monitoring the implementation of crisis preparedness and prevention measures at national level, as well as decisions approved by the Prime Minister, Government, National Crisis Management Commission and National Security Council in all phases of crisis situation management;

8.12. coordinating and monitoring, through the National Crisis Response Platform, the institutional response to crises and major crises;

8.13. evaluating the crisis and major crisis response and monitoring the implementation of lessons identified;

8.14. collecting information provided by lead and support institutions for preparing the integrated situational picture at national level and developing information, assessment and strategic forecasting materials in the field of managing threats that may trigger crises or major crises;

8.15. managing, at national level, the institutional warning system and monitoring its functionality;

8.16. developing, with the support of lead institutions and in coordination with the National Security Council, the national risk assessment;

8.17. developing and submitting for Government approval the National Crisis Management Plan;

8.18. facilitating inter-institutional cooperation and communication and information exchange at national level for identifying strategic options for prevention, preparedness, response and recovery from crises and major crises;

8.19. developing public policy proposals in the field of resilience, crisis and major crisis preparedness and prevention, as well as strategic response options for imminent or ongoing crises or major crises;

8.20. preparing the annual national assessment of the state of preparedness of public institutions and authorities for crises and major crises;

8.21. coordinating, at national level, the development of the Republic of Moldova's resilience to future crises and major crises;

8.22. maintaining the integrated picture of the activity of contact points with international organisations in the field of crisis management, as well as facilitating the request and implementation of international support in crises and major crises;

8.23. developing the National Crisis Management Exercise Programme and organising or providing support to public authorities and institutions organising national exercises in this field;

8.24. monitoring the fulfilment of crisis tasks and vital functions allocated to lead and support institutions, including regarding crisis situation management preparedness;

8.25. approving standards, methodologies, procedures and national protocols in the field of information analysis and crisis tasks;

8.26. ensuring, through the National Crisis Response Platform and in cooperation with the operations leader, the coordination of all measures carried out at operational level for response to crises and major crises;

8.27. ensuring the protection of information and data classified as state secrets specific to crisis management in accordance with legislation;

8.28. evaluating the efficiency and appropriateness of crisis response measures, informing, as necessary, the Prime Minister, National Security Council and Parliament, proposing corrective measures;

8.29. creating and managing the register of lessons identified as a result of crisis situation management;

8.30. cooperating with specialised structures of competent public authorities and institutions in performing situational analysis, crisis communication and risk assessment functions;

8.31. ensuring the development and maintenance of interoperability of information and communication systems intended for crisis situation management, in collaboration with competent public authorities and institutions, to enable the rapid exchange of data and warnings;

8.32. exercising other specific functions.

9. The Centre is vested with the following rights:

9.1. to request and receive, under the normative framework, from central and local public administration authorities the information necessary for the fulfilment of functions and exercise of powers;

9.2. to develop draft normative acts and public policy documents, to participate in expertises and consultations and to examine other matters related to the specific areas of activity;

9.3. to submit proposals to the Government regarding amendments to the normative framework in the areas of competence entrusted;

9.4. to implement development projects in the areas of activity;

9.5. to collaborate with local public administration authorities for implementing state policy in the entrusted fields and for solving common problems;

9.6. to bring, in accordance with legislation, recourse actions against civil servants and other categories of personnel who have caused damage to public property and the national public budget;

9.7. to request, in accordance with the law, access and obtain free of charge, through the interoperability platform, statistical, financial, fiscal, economic, legal and other information relevant to the fulfilment of its functions;

9.8. to issue or approve normative acts necessary to fulfil its mission and functions under legislation;

9.9. to conclude international treaties under the law;

9.10. to submit proposals to the Government regarding the need to suspend, annul or, as appropriate, repeal, in whole or in part, acts that contravene legislation issued by the heads of ministries, the State Chancellery or other central administrative authorities;

9.11. to represent and defend its interests in courts of all levels;

9.12. to cooperate with similar authorities of other states, including through the conclusion of bilateral cooperation agreements, exchange of experience and specialised information;

9.13. to exercise other rights based on normative acts governing relations in the areas of activity entrusted to the central administrative authority according to its areas of competence.

10. The Centre is headed by a General Director, appointed and dismissed by the Government, at the proposal of the Prime Minister, in accordance with Article 40 of Law No. 248/2025 on crisis situation management, Article 17(2) of Law No. 98/2012 on central specialised public administration and Article 6 of Law No. 199/2010 on the status of persons holding positions of public dignity, who:

10.1. determines the Centre's activity objectives, based on the Government Activity Programme, other normative acts and public policy documents and establishes the ways to achieve them;

10.2. ensures the execution of laws, decrees of the President of the Republic of Moldova, Parliament decisions, ordinances, Government decisions and dispositions, as well as the fulfilment of functions arising from the provisions of this Regulation and other normative acts;

10.3. approves the Centre's annual action plan, as well as reports on its implementation;

10.4. ensures the coordination and supervision of the Centre's activity;

10.5. organises the internal managerial control system, as well as the internal audit function within the Centre;

10.6. exercises the right to make expenditures in accordance with the allocations approved for the Centre in the annual budget law;

10.7. submits to the Prime Minister for coordination:

10.7.1. the Centre's strategic development programme/plan;

10.7.2. the Centre's annual activity plan and, for approval, measures for implementing the Centre's strategic activity directions;

10.7.3. recommendations for improving public policies, plans, methodologies and procedures;

10.8. approves the Centre's strategic planning documents, proposes the vision and strategy for the development and functioning of the Centre;

10.9. negotiates and signs international treaties of the Republic of Moldova in accordance with the procedure established in Law No. 595/1999 on the international treaties of the Republic of Moldova;

10.10. establishes the duties and responsibilities of the Deputy General Director, submits proposals to the Prime Minister regarding the application of disciplinary sanctions against the Deputy General Director, to be submitted, in the established manner, for Government examination;

10.11. approves the Centre's organisational chart;

10.12. signs endorsements to draft normative acts related to the areas of activity entrusted to the Centre;

10.13. issues orders individually and within the limits of the powers assigned, ensuring control over their execution;

10.14. approves the regulations of internal subdivisions and job descriptions of employees;

10.15. appoints to public positions, including public positions with special status, as well as modifies, suspends and terminates the service relationships of civil servants under the law;

10.16. employs and dismisses other categories of personnel, under labour legislation;

10.17. confers qualification grades to civil servants, including special grades to civil servants with special status, grants incentives and applies disciplinary sanctions under the law;

10.18. represents, without a special mandate, the Centre in relations with central and local public administration authorities, other public authorities, civil society representatives and natural and legal persons from the Republic of Moldova and abroad;

10.19. signs, within the limits of competence, orders and other acts provided by legislation, issued by the Centre;

10.20. submits proposals for the decoration with state distinctions of Centre personnel, under the law;

10.21. approves or modifies the Centre's staffing table and staffing scheme within the limits of the remuneration fund and staff limit approved by the Government;

10.22. exercises other competences attributed in accordance with legislation.

11. A Deputy General Director operates within the Centre, who is a senior management civil servant, appointed on the basis of professionalism criteria, in accordance with Law No. 158/2008 on the civil service and the status of civil servants.

12. According to the General Director's order on establishing areas of activity, the Deputy General Director has the following competences:

12.1. participates in determining the Centre's objectives and strategic activity directions in the areas for which responsible;

12.2. participates in developing the Centre's annual activity plan, reports on its implementation in the areas for which responsible;

12.3. exercises the General Director's powers to lead the Centre, in case of delegation of responsibilities, absence of the General Director or impossibility for the General Director to exercise powers, of which the Prime Minister and Secretary General of the Government are notified;

12.4. represents the Centre, based on delegation by the General Director, in relations with central and local public administration authorities, public institutions, civil society representatives and natural and legal persons from the Republic of Moldova and abroad;

12.5. exercises other duties delegated by the General Director.

13. If the position of General Director becomes vacant, the Prime Minister shall, within 30 days, request from the President of the National Security Council an opinion on the proposed candidature, who must meet the requirements provided in Article 6(1) of Law No. 199/2010 on the status of persons holding positions of public dignity and have at least three years of relevant managerial experience in crisis management or national security.

14. Within 15 days of submitting the proposal, the President of the National Security Council issues a positive or negative opinion on the proposed candidature.

15. In case of a positive opinion, within five days, the Prime Minister proposes appointment to the Government.

16. In case of a negative opinion, within five days, the Prime Minister proposes another candidature to the President of the National Security Council, under the conditions of point 13.

17. The General Director, Deputy General Director and heads of Centre subdivisions, within the limits of delegated powers, bear responsibility for decisions taken and for the Centre's activity.

18. The Centre's personnel consists of own personnel and seconded personnel. The Centre's personnel consists of persons holding positions of public dignity, civil servants with special status, civil servants and contractual personnel. Seconded personnel consists of civil servants, civil servants with special status, including military personnel and intelligence and security officers.

19. The service relationships of civil servants with special status are governed by the provisions of Law No. 158/2008 on the civil service and the status of civil servants, to the extent that Law No. 248/2025 on crisis situation management and special laws do not provide otherwise.

20. The service relationships of civil servants are governed by the provisions of Law No. 158/2008 on the civil service and the status of civil servants.

21. The employment relationships of contractual personnel are governed by the provisions of Labour Code of the Republic of Moldova No. 154/2003.

22. Civil servants with special status may be seconded from other public authorities in the manner provided by legislation.

23. Secondment is made at the request of the Centre's General Director, with the consent of the head of the authority where the seconded person works.

24. The National Crisis Response Platform is organised and operates within the Centre, as an inter-institutional structure, with the role of providing decision-making support to the National Crisis Management Commission and to the operations leader at national level, as well as coordinating, at national level, response actions in crisis and major crisis situations.

The National Crisis Response Platform is organised by order of the Centre's General Director.

25. The Centre's correspondence is signed by the General Director, Deputy General Director and officials authorised with this right by order of the General Director.

26. Signatures on the Centre's official documents are applied by the General Director, Deputy General Director and authorised officials, including with the use of electronic signature.

27. The Centre collaborates with other central and local public administration authorities, the business community and civil society, as well as with similar institutions from other states, international organisations in the institution's area of competence and development partners.

28. Commissions and working groups may be created within the Centre, convened for examining and solving specific issues. Specialists from different fields may be involved in the work of commissions.

29. A board may be established within the Centre, as an advisory body, under the conditions of Law No. 98/2012 on central specialised public administration. The numerical and nominal composition of the board is approved by the Centre's management, unless special norms provide otherwise.

Annex No. 2
to Government Decision No. 579/2025

General Director

Deputy General Director

Internal Audit Service

Crisis Management Planning Directorate

Integrated Information Directorate

Crisis Room (with service status)

Analysis and Strategic Forecasting Service

External Assistance and International Relations Service

Information and Communication Service

Document Management Service

Information and Communications Technology Service

Legal, Human Resources and State Secrets Protection Service

Financial-Administrative Service

Annex No. 3
to Government Decision No. 579/2025

1. Point 2 of Government Decision No. 778/2009 on approval of the Regulation on the organisation and functioning of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the structure and staff limit of its central apparatus (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2009, No. 173, art. 856), as amended, shall read as follows:

"2. The staff limit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, its administrative authorities and subordinate institutions is set at 18,128 units."

2. In point 2 of Government Decision No. 693/2017 on the organisation and functioning of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2017, No. 322-328, art. 795), as amended, the figures "143" are replaced with "141".

3. In point 2 of Government Decision No. 946/2018 on the organisation and functioning of the Material Reserves Agency (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2018, No. 398-399, art. 1046), as amended, the figures "93" are replaced with "87".

4. Point 3 of Government Decision No. 137/2019 on the organisation and functioning of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2019, No. 86-92, art. 169), as amended, shall read as follows:

"3. The staff limit of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations is set at 2,465 units."

5. In point 7 of Government Decision No. 332/2019 on the organisation and functioning of the General Inspectorate of Carabiniers (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2019, No. 241-243, art. 439), as amended, the figures "1186" are replaced with "1,179".

6. In point 5 of Government Decision No. 429/2020 on the organisation and functioning of certain public educational institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2020, No. 165-176, art. 559), as amended, the figures "464" are replaced with "458".

7. In point 3 of Government Decision No. 955/2023 on the organisation and functioning of the Agency for the Management of Highly Specialised Social Services and reorganisation of certain public institutions under its management (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2023, No. 472-473, art. 1156), as amended, the figures "2202" are replaced with "2,152".