About half of the reforms assumed by the Government by the priority reform action roadmap for implementing the Association Agreement with the EU were implemented without deficiencies. 28% of the reforms were done with deficiencies, while about 17% weren’t carried out. Such a conclusion was reached by experts of the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT), the Analytical Center “Expert-Grup” and the Legal Resources Center of Moldova, IPN reports.
According to the experts, among the most serious shortcomings are the reformation of the National Anticorruption Center, non-adoption of a new Broadcasting Code, slow investigation of the banking frauds committed in 2014, slow reformation of the National Bank of Moldova and failure to negotiate the most advantageous power supply price.
Among the main accomplishments are the promulgation of the laws on the prosecution service and the package of laws on integrity, reorganization of the system of courts of law, optimization of state inspections at companies, adoption of the investment attraction and export promotion strategy for 2016-2020, initiation of the process of reforming the banking sector in accordance with the Basel III principles, progress made in the negotiations on a new agreement with the IMF, and the starting of the public administration reform.
The experts also warned that the Government in its assessment reports indicated the figure of 82 planned measures, instead of the 69 included in the document. The 12 additional reform measures resulted from the division of some of the measures and separate assessment of sub-measures. This fact influenced the final result reported by the Government.
