OREANDA-NEWS. March 14, 2012. Matters of harmonization of the national law with the European one were discussed during the bilateral workshop “Policies to protect rights of consumers in Austria and Moldova in the field of financial services”, held in Chisinau.

As Octavian Calmic, deputy minister of economy, has said, the harmonization of the laws is provided by the negotiations between Moldova and EU on the Association agreement.

Besides changes in the law, mentalities of consumers and other participants of the market have to be changed. Georg Reibmayr, trade and social relation and consumer protection attache under the embassy of Austria, has noted that the workshop is a good occasion to draw the attention of those involved in this area to this problem and to create the vision of the situation in the respective sector in Austria.