Insignificant progress was made in implementing the Association Agreement with the European Union until September 1, 2018. Compared with the end of 2017, a qualitative slip back was witnessed, mainly owing to the slowdown of the EU -  Moldova political dialogue and the suspension of the EU financial assistance, says the Alternative Report No. 3 on the implementation of the EU -  Moldova Association Agreement for the first half of this year that was presented by the Institute for European Policy and Reforms, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the Institute.

The assessment results show the National Action Plan for implementing the EU -  Moldova Association Agreement in the second quarter of 2018 was 41.2% implemented and the general fulfillment rate in relation to all the measures planned until 2019 was of 20.7%.

According to the authors of the report, until June 30, 2018, the 679 analyzed measures were 41.2% implemented. Some 4.1% of the measures were carried out beforehand, 38.7% are being implemented, while 15.9% of the measures weren’t carried out.

Conducting a comparative statistical analysis of each of the five assessed titles of the Association Agreement, the experts noticed that most of the results until June 30, 2018 were achieved in implementing the measures from Title V (Trade and aspects related to trade – DCFTA). The implementation rate here was 57-8%. The measures stipulated in Title III (Justice, freedom and security) were only 29.6% carried out.

The main conclusion of the study is that in general the progress was insignificant (grade 2.6 out of 5).

The report was compiled by the Institute for European Policy and Reforms in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of Germany and the National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Platform. There were assessed 679 of the 1,487 measures stipulated in the National Action Plan for implementing the EU - Moldova Association Agreement in the second quarter of 2018, including those initiated in 2017.