OREANDA-NEWS. March 28, 2014. The relevant agreement was signed in France, the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications informs. According to IT Minister Pavel Filip, it will enable Moldova to apply high quality standards and use all the opportunities of its relations with the EU to achieve their ultimate goal that is to integrate with Europe.

Applying ETSI standards gives our country a whole range of advantages including the price reduction through removal of technical barriers to the free trade and the trade volume exchange to improve the balance of payment of Moldova and reduce bureaucracy, Pavel Filip says. As the ETSI regulations run, a country may have several representatives to the Institute, but only one of them is entitled to adopt ETSI standards.

In Moldova, this right was granted to the National Standardization Agency. The agreement on Moldova’s joining ETSI was concluded at an initiative of the Ministry of Information Technologies that resulted from the Ministry’s consultations with representatives of business, enterprises within the Ministry and other companies.

According to the Ministry, the international standards and technical regulations are going to be applied to the National Emergency Call Service program 112 and to the Guide for TV digital receipt units. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), founded in 1998, embraces 700 members of 60 states.

This independent and non-profit organization produces telecommunications standards for both equipment and network operators. GSM standards for mobile communications and TETRA standards for radio systems are the best known ETSI systems.