Most of bills lack appropriate substantiation note, CAPC

The Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption (CAPC) established that most of the bills submitted to Parliament do not have a substantiation note that will meet the required norms. The Center assessed the corruption risks of the Law on Price Indication, which also does not have such a note, Info-Prim Neo reports. The expert who made the analysis, Viorel Pirvan, told a news conference that according to the informative note the bill aims to lay down a legal framework adjusted to the EU standards that will protect the consumer rights by regulating the method of indicating the selling price so as to correctly and precisely inform the buyers. The analysis showed that the goal of the bill is mainly beneficial. The bill will help improve the mechanism for regulating the method of indicating the selling price of products, but the corruption risks of some of the provisions are high and can limit the rights of private individuals. Viorel Pirvan said that the authors included in the bill norms related to the Code of Administrative Offenses and were to formulate proposals for amending the Code so as to define the offenses concerning the indication of prices, the penalties, the authorities that should deal with related offenses, but this wasn’t done. The analysis also revealed that the notions contained in the bill chiefly double the notions that exist in the legislation. Therefore, the authors should ensure the uniformity of the legal framework and the use of the same terms. CAPC head Galina Bostan said the bill authors should abandon defining terms that are explained in other laws and use them in the form in which they were included in the laws adopted earlier. The CAPC also pointed to the lack of an economic-financial justification so as to see if costs will be incurred for implementing the law. The recommendations formulated during public consultations were not attached to the final version of the bill. The bill also lacks an analysis of the regulation impact. The CAPC examined the bill within the project “Assessment of Corruption Risks of Normative and Legislative Acts – Stage V” that is supported financially by the Civil Rights Defenders of Sweden and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.