Based on the legal provisions, a new law cannot regulate a previous deed, therefore, the committed deed, namely "not removing the car", is produced until January 01, 2021, which requires the application of the rules in force at the time of the commission, taking into account if at that time the car had a 10-year operating period to be able to be imported or not, if not then the effects provided by the law at the time of the deed were the payment of the car price if it is missing and not the price of the import excise duty.
A different interpretation of the law is excluded; an open letter to the Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova has been published in this regard, which can be accessed
here.