Authorities must take steps to eliminate legislative drawbacks in 2013, expert

The Moldovan authorities must take steps to eliminate the legislative and normative drawbacks in the process of implementing the justice sector reform strategy, the national anticorruption strategy, the national security strategy, the visa liberalization action plan, and the plan of action for implementing the EU recommendations for instituting the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, said the ADEPT expert Corneliu Gurin. In an interview for Info-Prim Neo of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans”, which was {published on December 21}, the expert said that in order to achieve the objective of signing the Association Agreement with the EU, Moldova will have to show determination in implementing the laws adopted earlier. In this respect, the parliamentary hearings should be improved and made more effective. “The shortcomings in the implementation of legislation must be treated with maximum seriousness and at a very high level. The Parliament of Moldova should restore the normal work conditions and, after the Parliament Building is reconstructed, should make effort to make the legislative work more efficient and transparent. Regretfully, the authorities in 2012 didn’t do much to ensure order and transparency in the Parliament’s activity and will have to correct things in this area next year,” said Corneliu Gurin. The Info-Prim Neo interviews of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans”, which were launched on December 6, present the opinions of 12 interviewees about the performance of the passing year. The interview with the ADEPT expert Corneliu Gurin is the seventh of this series.