Policy objectives are included in a number of fundamental policy statements on environmental protection.  The most important are the National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP), the National Strategic Action Plan for Environmental Protection, the National Programme of Strategic Activities in Ecology, Rational Utilization of Natural Resources and Environment Protection (1995), and the National Human Development Report.  The stated objectives have not yet been spelt out in terms of operational targets, programmes and tools necessary for their implementation.Overall, Moldova seeks to coordinate and implement State programmes in accordance with EU standards.
The budgets of the public enterprise sector have been severely tightened.  New credits have become extremely difficult to obtain,  and subsidies to enterprises are being withdrawn.  However, financial constraints have been relieved through loan roll-over and capitalization of interest owed.
The Government of the Republic approved the creation of a system for noxious substances and the destruction of banned pesticides.  Concurrently, the Scientific Production Association for Research, Collection and Processing of Hazardous Substances and Forbidden Pesticides was created.  However, the decision cannot be implemented until resources are allocated.
Any border controls (on, for instance, imports of prohibited waste materials) are obviously a task for the customs services.  However, for technical expertise and control equipment, they have to rely on the Environmental Inspectorate.
At present, the former Soviet standards are still applied to municipal waste (Ministry of Health of USSR: Sanitary Rules on the Installation and Contents of Disposal Facilities for Solid Domestic Waste, Moscow 1983).  Recently, some additional Moldovan standards and regulations on toxic waste have been drawn up (Health Ministry of the Republic of Moldova: Sanitary Regulation on the Storage, Neutralization, Utilization and Disposal of Toxic Substances and Residues, 1995).  For radiological protection, the former Soviet standards continue to be valid.