The authorities fully implemented less than 1/3 of the measures planned by the Government in its priority reform action roadmap for March – June 2016. Among the overdue measures and shortcomings are the reformation of the National Anticorruption Center (NAC), the investigation into the banking frauds and the failure to negotiate an advantages price for the supply of power with Ukraine. The conclusions are contained in an intermediate monitoring report on the priority reform action roadmap for implementing the Association Agreement with the EU. The report was compiled by the Association for Participatory Democracy ADEPT, the Analytical Center “Expert-Grup” and the Legal Resources Center of Moldova, IPN reports.
Legal Resources Center programs director Nadejda Hriptievschi said one of the commitments undertaken by the authorities is to delimit the powers of the NAC, the National Integrity Commission, the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of the Interior. The powers of the first two institutions were mainly delimited by adopting legal provisions, but this wasn’t done in the case of the other two institutions.
Another shortcoming is related to the new Broadcasting Code that was passed in the first reading. According to the report authors, this is one of the greatest shortcomings of all the governments that ruled since 2011. As regards the objective to ensure economic development and a functional market economy, the investigation into the banking frauds committed in 2014 is slow, as is the reformation of the National Bank of Moldova for increasing its independence and powers. In the energy sector, owing to the lack of transparency in the renewal of the contractor for the supply of power with the Transnistrian company and in the rejection of the offer of the Ukrainian supplier, the most advantageous price for electric power wasn’t negotiated.
At the same time, the Government can boast of the adoption of the investment attraction strategy for 2016-2020, initiation of the process of reforming the banking sector and the ‘thaw’ in the negotiation of a new possible program with the IMF. Among other accomplishments are the adoption of the Law on the Prosecution Service, the Law on the Reorganization of the Courts of Law and of the package of laws on integrity and also the optimization of state inspections at companies.
A number of 57 measures of the 69 defined in the roadmap were to be carried out by the end of June. Some 29% of the measures were implemented without deficiencies, while 27% - with deficiencies. The others are being put into practice and, in some cases, there are serious shortcomings that can hamper their successful implementation.
According to the data presented by the Government a week ago, the priority reform action roadmap was 68% carried out. The document is to be fully implemented by end-July.
