The Moldovan authorities during over two years have maintained a good pace of carrying out the measures defined in the plan for implementing the justice sector reform strategy. So far the plan was 60% fulfilled. The results achieved in 2013 are good, but surely could have been better, Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim said in a press club meeting staged by the EU Delegation to Moldova, IPN reports.

The minister said that immediately after Moldova adopted the justice sector reform stagey, he went on a fact-finding visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In four years this country implemented 10% of the actions stipulated in the plan.

Oleg Efrim said a news conference will be given on September 15 to present the accomplishments and failures in the implementation of the justice sector reform strategy. “We will share the troubles with the other 20 institutions that took part in the realization of the strategy and will name the institutions that fully achieved the set objectives and the institutions that didn’t achieve them,” he stated.
 
Among the achievements mentioned by the minister is the removal of the immunity of judges for acts of corruption in 2012. As a result, several judges were caught red-handed by the end of 2013. This year, following the assumption of responsibility by the Government, the number of offenses for which the immunity of judges can be removed was extended. There are used also other instruments such as the testing of the integrity of law enforcement bodies’ employees. The salaries of judges were raised and the results will be felt in the near future. Parliament is expected to pass soon an important package of laws for the justice sector reform, which was approved by the Government.

The justice sector reform strategy was adopted in 2011.