The bill on dwellings may cause serious damage to the state budget if it is passed in the variant in which it was submitted to Parliament because it contains provisions that violate the human rights. Thus, Moldova can be convicted by the ECHR and the damages will be paid from the state budget, said experts of the Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption (CAPC), who examined the bill, IPN reports.
In a news conference at IPN, CAPC expert Viorel Parvan said it won’t be possible to privatize the social dwellings after the bill is adopted. As a result, there will appear numerous disputes and even complaints to the ECHR as the exclusion of the right to privatize dwellings represents a violation.
The declared goal of the project is to work out a new legal framework on dwellings. The author suggests building or purchasing over 10,000 social dwellings at a cost of about 8 billion lei. These costs are to be covered by the local public authorities. Viorel Parvan said this proposal runs counter to the standards laid down in the European Charter of Local Self-Government and the case law of the Constitutional Court. The bill does not provide financial coverage for these authorities, which will have to cope by themselves. The bill also does not stipulate the categories of persons who will benefit from these apartments, which is also a violation, according to the CAPC.
Another bill appraised by the CAPC refers to the program on social financing of dwellings, devised by the Democratic parliamentary group. The declared goal of the bill is to create a social lending system to help the population improve the living conditions. It is suggested financing homebuilding, apartment repair and purchase projects through bank loans. The authors propose that the National Bank of Moldova should grant loans of up to 1.5 billion lei to licensed banks on a long term. The expert said it’s not known if the central bank can provide such sums.
The two bills were examined within the project “Vulnerability appraisal of draft normative acts in terms of human rights” that is financially supported by the Civil Rights Defenders of Sweden.
