The Constitutional Court (CC) on October 9 will examine the Communist Party’s challenge concerning the constitutionality of the law on the ratification of the Association Agreement between Moldova, on the one hand, and the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and its member states, on the other hand, IPN reports.

According to the Communist MPs, the ratification of the accord endangers the fundamental constitutional rights concerning Moldova’s sovereignty and independence, the status of unitary, undividable and neutral state and other constitutional imperatives.

In the challenge, the authors say the national sovereignty belongs to the people of Moldova and no private individual, no part of the people, no political party or another public organization can exert the state power in their own name.

The Communists noted that a treaty that runs counter to the constitutional provisions was imposed on Moldova. By the provisions of an article of the accord, the constitutional norms according to which Parliament is the only legislative authority that regulates matters related to taxes and duties are neglected. “The supreme representative body of the state is substituted by props controlled by the EU,” it is said in the challenge.

As to the import and export with the EU, the Communist lawmakers said the agreement institutes discriminatory quotas on the supply of Moldovan goods to the EU and allows freely importing EU goods into Moldova, without limits.

The Communist Party demands that the Constitutional Court should suspend the law on the ratification of the accord.

Moldova signed the Association Agreement with the EU on June 27. On July 2, the document was ratified by Parliament.