competitive domestic products, substitution of import food products and export growth, particularly of Finite products. 2. To modernize and restructure the agro-food chain in order to comply with the international and EU requirements on food safety, control systems and quality standards. 3. To strengthen the regulatory framework related to sustainable development of the agro-food sector by developing strategic policy documents with sector approaches. 4. To review the taxation system in agriculture. 5. To identify the procedures setting up prices to petroleum products, including establishing the right of farmers to import petroleum products for their own needs. 6. To de facto liberalise agricultural resources market. To simplify the procedures to certificate and test products (seeds, seedlings and plant protection products etc.) certified by the European competent institutions. To recognise and enforce the Catalogue of Plant Varieties and Seeds of the European Union in Moldova. 7. To improve the legal framework relating to the regulation of the mechanism of unilateral recognition of phytosanitary and sanitary-veterinary certificates issued in other countries, particularly in the European Union, USA, Canada and Japan. 8. To provide and simplify access to funding in order to modernize the sector and to develop a modern market infrastructure, through: - legislative regulation / foundation of directions, principles and procedures of administration / control of Grant Fund resources, with emphasis on the financial support of small / medium enterprises and young farmers; - identifying and attracting foreign assistance related to the agro-industrial complex, diversifying the existing funding instruments (technical preferential loans, leasing, grants, etc.) and continuous assessment of capacities to absorb financial resources provided by international donors. 9. To boost risk insurance mechanism in agriculture and create a mechanism for lending, attractive for farmers. 10. To reform the education, scientific, research, consulting and rural extension system and create the integrated information system in agriculture, to ensure a close interconnection with sector's needs. 11. To ease regulatory constraints for agricultural producers by eliminating bureaucratic barriers in the sector, especially non-tariff and those related to the drawbacks in the legal framework, including all processes of interaction between the farmer and competent institutions. 12. External auditing of the costs underlying testing and accreditation tariffs applied by self-financing state laboratories, in order to reduce them. To foster 24