The courts of law of Chisinau and district centers will be reorganized by merger. There will be 15 courts of law in the country. Parliament on April 21 passed the draft law on the reorganization of the system of courts of law in the final reading, IPN reports.

The bill envisions the reduction in the number of common courts of law, not yet of judges, and does not refer to the appeals courts. A ten-year plan of action for fully reorganizing the courts of law will be worked out.

The bill provides that the new courts of law will start work in January 2017, but the other courts will be merged with the newly created ones during ten years. This bill forms part of the justice sector reform strategy that is implemented with financial support from the EU.