The bill on ministerial responsibility is very necessary, but it should be improved and supplemented before it is adopted, consider experts of the Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption (CAPC). In a news conference on September 14, they said specifications are needed in order to reduce the corruptibility potential, which may have an essential impact on the quality of governance, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We suggested that when Parliament works on this bill it should detail the reasons and conditions under which the members of the Government can be held politically or disciplinarily accountable,” said expert of the Center Mariana Kalughin. According to her, the CAPC considers that the bill on ministerial responsibility may have a considerable impact on the quality of governance if it is improved to diminish the corruptibility potential. “Such syntagms as ‘maybe’ and ‘has the right” used in the bill attracted out attention. According to the methodology we use, these syntagms pose a corruptibility risk and represent an increased corruptibility factor because when the reasons why responsibility is borne are not clearly described there is a risk that some of the persons will bear responsibility, while others will not. What we want is that all the persons should be treated equally as only this way can the Government be made more responsible,” said Mariana Kalughin. She also said that if the bill is adopted in the present form, the law may remain unimplemented or be implemented unequally even if the situations are identical for different persons and this reduces the efficiency of this bill. CAPC director Galina Bostan said the bill should have been adopted 10 years ago as ministerial responsibility is extremely necessary in a state that aims to ensure the integrity of the public agents. The examination was carried out within the project “Expert Review of Corruptibility of Draft Legislation – stage V” that is supported financially by the Civil Rights Defenders of Sweden and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.