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CONFORMED COPY
March
2, 2004
H.E. Zinaida Grecianii
Minister of Finance
Ministry of Finance
Chisinau
Republic of Moldova

Dear Madame Minister:

Re:
Agricultural Pollution Control Project

Amendment to the Draft Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Trust Fund Grant Agreement
We refer to the draft GEF Trust Fund Grant Agreement for the Agricultural Pollution
Control Project (the Project) and to the Minutes of Negotiations for said Project dated December
20, 2003, between the Republic of Moldova (the Recipient) and the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (the Bank), acting as an Implementing Agency of the GEF. We
also refer to your letter dated June 12, 2003, requesting that the disbursement percentages
reflected in my letter of December 19, 2003, be incorporated in the draft GEF Trust Fund Grant
Agreement as agreed in the Minutes of Negotiations.
We hereby confirm the Bank's agreement to the following amendment.

The table in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the draft GEF Trust Fund Grant Agreement is
revised to read as per Annex to this letter.

Please confirm your agreement with the foregoing amendment by countersigning, dating
and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter. Upon receipt by the Bank of the copy of this
letter countersigned by you, this amendment will become effective as of date of the
countersignature.
Sincerely,

/s/ Luca Barbone
Director
Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova
Europe and Central Asia

AGREED:

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

By: /s/ Zinaida Grecianii

Authorized Representative
Title : Minister of Finance
Date : March 5, 2004

RCA 248423.
WUI 64145
FAX (202) 477-6391

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H. E. Zinaida Grecianii
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March 2, 2004

Copied to:
Ms. Mariana Durlesteanu, First Deputy Minister of Finance
Mr. Edward K. Brown, Country Manager, World Bank
Mr. Ad Melkert, Executive Director, World Bank
Ms. Olga Sulla, Advisor to the Executive Director, the World Bank

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ANNEX
TO LETTER
DATED MARCH 2, 2004

Amount of the
% of

GEF Trust Fund Grant Allocated
Expenditures
Category
(Expressed in Dollars)
to be Financed
(1) Works
750,000
100%

(2) Goods

840,000
100% of foreign expenditures,

100% of local expenditures

(ex-factory cost) and

100% of local expenditures

for other items procured

locally

(3) Consultants' services,
670,000
100% for foreign consulting

including auditing

firms and foreign individual

services, and training

consultants, 96% for local

consulting firms and 80% for

local individual consultants

and 100% of eligible social

charges, and 100% for

training

(4) Sub-grants under
2,000,000
100% of amounts disbursed
Sub-grant Agreements


under Part A.1 (a)



of the Project

(5) Incremental Operating



Costs of the CAPMU

and the PIU

(a) CAPMU
280,000
96% for local consulting

and PIU staff

firms and 80% for local

individual consultants and

100% of eligible social

charges

(b) Other
120,000
97%

(6) Unallocated
290,000
TOTAL 4,950,000
RCA 248423.
WUI 64145
FAX (202) 477-6391

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H. E. Zinaida Grecianii
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March 2, 2004

Cleared with & cc: Messrs./Mmes. Kolovou (LEGEC), Freese (LOAG1), Ogawa
(ECCU2), Nacev (ECSSD)

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