Four of the five applications submitted by Moldovans to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) repeat owing to the defective system of Moldova, said the head of the Legal Resources Center Vlad Gribincea. According to the jurist, the implementation of an ECHR decision has two features. The first is the payment of damages to the plaintiff and the reopening of the case, while the second is the fulfillment of all the conditions for avoiding the violation of human rights in the future. The government in Moldova pays damages and, sometimes, reopens the cases, but changes to avoid the repeat of the cases are not instituted, Vlad Gribincea said in public debates held at Info-Prim Neo. Moldova ranks third among the Council of Europe member states by the number of applications to the ECHR per capita. Until December 31, 2011, the ECHR passed 227 decisions on Moldovan cases. It was outrun by Portugal and Germany, the latter being a party to the ECHR since its foundation, while Moldova for 15 years. “When we look at Moldova’s statistics, we see a wide range of applications. This shows that the Moldovan justice isn’t working,” said Vlad Gribincea. As many as 1,025 applications against Moldova were filed to the ECHR in 2011, up 8.5% on 2010. From 1998 until 2011, the ECHR had recorded 7,416 complaints against Moldova. The Court finished examining 43% of them. Based on the 227 decisions pronounced, the Government of Moldova was obliged to pay almost €13 million damages. The jurists said that usually the damages awarded by the ECHR are paid to the plaintiff on time. The data were presented in the public debates “Reform of the European Court of Human Rights and the possible impact on the European integration of Moldova”, where the jurists expressed concern that some of the initiatives to reform the Court may have a negative impact on such states as Moldova, especially on the European integration process.