Ten prosecutor’s offices, four of which are located in southern Moldova and six in Chisinau, will be merged into two. The prosecutor’s offices of the level of Appeals Court, the military prosecutor’s offices and the transport prosecutor’s office will be liquidated. Such provisions are contained in the new law on the prosecution service that will take effect on August 1, 2016, IPN reports.

In a press release, the Prosecutor General’s Office says the Prosecutor’s Offices of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, situated in Ceadar-Lunga, Comrat and Vulcanesti, will be merged into the Prosecutor’s Office of Gagauzia. The prosecutor’s offices of Botanica, Buiucani, Centru, Ciocana and Rascani and of Chisinau municipality will merge into one office – the Prosecutor’s Office of Chisinau municipality. The merger will take place after the related legislation that regulates the work of the prosecution service is amended and the departmental regulations are adjusted to the provisions of the new law.

The new law provides that the movable and immovable property and archives of the enumerated prosecutor’s offices as well as the files, materials and other documents managed by these will be transmitted to the Prosecutor’s Office of Gagauzia and the Prosecutor’s Office of Chisinau municipality. The prosecutors of the merged institutions will continue to work at the aforementioned two offices.

The chiefs of the merged prosecutor’s offices will continue to work as deputy chief prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office of Gagauzia and of the Prosecutor’s Office of Chisinau municipality until their terms in office expire.

When the law comes into force, the prosecutor’s offices of the level of Appeals Court in Chisinau, Cahul, Bender and Balti, the military prosecutor’s offices in Chisinau, Balti and Cahul and the transport prosecutor’s office will stop work. The prosecutors working here will be transferred to other local or specialized prosecutor’s offices where there are vacancies, except for chief prosecutor.

According to acting prosecutor general Eduard Harunjen, the changes that are to be made derive from the institutional reform commitments and are aimed at strengthening the institutional capacities and at optimizing the internal working processes and, respectively, the management of human resources.

A number of 54 prosecutors now work under the Prosecutor General’s Office in Moldova.