Coordination center working nonstop to monitor situation on border

The National Council for Integrated State Border Management is considering creating a national coordination center that will work nonstop and will monitor the situation on the state border. It will play the role of coordinator of the joint activities and missions of the national authorities involved in the implementation of the National Integrated State Border Management Strategy for 2011-2013, Info-Prim Neo reports. In the first meeting of the Council this year, Roman Revenko, director general of the Border Guard Service, spoke about the necessity of improving the normative framework, the institutional system, state border control and supervision. Among the priorities were mentioned the implementation of a modern human resources management system, ensuring of logistic development and development of the risk analysis system. Roman Revenko said a number of bills that meet the requirements of the EU were adopted in 2011. They include the Law on Moldova’s State Border, the Law on Border Police that will be created after the Border Guard Service is reorganized, and the Law on the Modification of the Code of Administrative Offenses that empowers the border police to examine offenses. The first working meeting of the National Council for Integrated State Border Management involved decision makers of the Border Guard Service and representatives of EUBAM, OSCE, UNHCR, IOM and civil society.