OREANDA-NEWS. October 06, 2011. In 2011 the government earmarked 25 million lei from the budget for energy efficiency programmes, and the development partners supplemented these means by 20 million euros, - Valeriu Lazar. The Economy Minister and the chairman-in-office of the Energy Community said it during the social forum of the organization held.

According to the minister, the main point of the forum this year is evaluation of the social impact on the reforms in the energy sector and development of the social dialogue in the process of adjustment of the Moldovan legislation to the European requirements.

Lazar said that given the main principles of the document and the fact that energy resources prices in our country are thrice as much as average European ones, Moldova should use energy resources as efficiently as possible. At the same time, it is the energy sector in Moldova that leads in the process of implementation of the European legislation.