The EU-funded Project Preparation Facility (PPF) Technical Assistance team held its third Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting in the Ministry of Finance on 19 October 2023.

The PSC meeting was chaired by Ana Luca, Deputy General State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), and co-chaired by Josip Juric, European Union Delegation Programme Manager. The meeting was attended by PSC members Viorel Pana, Head of Public Investment Directorate and Elena Matveeva, Head of Public Debt and External Assistance General Directorate. Other MoF officials attending were: Lilia Taban, Deputy Head of Public Investment Directorate, Ina Darii, Deputy Head of State Treasury Directorate and Aurel Jucov, Consultant, Lead Consultant, External Assistance Policy Divison.

Yiannis Hadziyiannakis, Team Leader of the PPF Project delivered a presentation on the progress and pending issues across the five components of the PPF Project. Josip Juric followed with a small presentation about a possible future extension of the PPF Project enhancing the scope to cover areas of support requested by MoF and to improve capacity in relations to Moldova’s EU Enlargement process.