The Resource Center for Human Rights (CReDO) recommends that the civil society representative in the National Integrity Commission is appointed head of the institution, Info-Prim Neo reports. CReDO director Sergiu Ostaf declared during a press conference on Friday that the well-functioning of the National Integrity Commission and of other institutions for fighting corruption, like the Anticorruption Center, can be guaranteed through the quality of management, through de-politicization and autonomy, as well as proper financial allotments. The National Integrity Commission didn’t start its works yet. Its members have been appointed, but the Parliament hasn’t chosen the CNI leader. “When appointing the head of a new institution it is important to obtain a transfer of prestige from that person to the institution. We know cases when newly-created institutions were headed by people, who didn’t only fail to create a positive image, but even damaged and compromised the functioning of the institution”, said Sergiu Ostaf. According to the CReDO director, it is crucial that such institutions are led by people with impeccable reputation. “It’s obvious that those appointed according to political criteria have an important handicap”, thinks Sergiu Ostaf. He added that financial and functional autonomy should be guaranteed by Law. According to him, for anticorruption policies to work, the National Integrity Commission should have an equal status with the Court of Accounts and the employees of the Anticorruption Center should have wages similar to those of the workers at the Prosecutor’s Office. On June 22, the Parliament named the members of the National Integrity Commission. These are Vera Lupu, proposed by PLDM, Ion Casian, nominated by PL, Leonid Morari of PDM, Dumitru Prijmireanu of PCRM and Cristina Cojocaru as representative of civil society. The five members have equal rights. The Commission will inspect the assets and conflicts of interests of dignitaries, judges, prosecutors, public workers and heads of institutions. The Commission members are named by the Parliament and have 5-year mandates.