The reform in the justice sector has been 60% implemented, Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim said in the program “Place for dialogue” on the public station Radio Moldova, IPN reports.
Though he admits that almost half of the measures defined in the strategy for reforming the Moldovan justice sector haven’t been yet carried out, Oleg Efrim considers that this is a good result. “We acknowledge that we could have done better, but things in reality do not take place as written on paper. A powerful imprint was left by the political crisis of 2013. A number of important bills will remain blocked in the electoral period,” stated the minister.
Among the results achieved in reforming the Moldovan legal system, Oleg Efrim mentioned the electronic apostilling of documents, the creation of the National Integrity Commission and the punishment of two judges for taking bribe. There is yet a long list of laws that must be adopted. “We continue to insist on the anticorruption measures. Work is done on amending the law on the National Integrity Commission and on the reform of the prosecution service. We want to ensure the possibility of civilly confiscating the undeclared property of state officials, including judges,” he stated.
Oleg Efrim also said that the current justice sector reform is the most complex one implemented in the field since the declaration of Moldova’s independence. “Each government did reforms in the justice sector, but disjointedly. We first examined attentively the problems and then worked out the strategy for reforming the justice sector at all the levels. The strategy is appreciated by the European partners and the fact that they allocated €60 million for its implementation is an unprecedented case in the EU,” he said.
