The MPs who form part of the parliamentary Council for European Integration will take part in working out a strategy for Moldova’s integration into the EU and will monitor the activity and performance of the parliamentary delegations to European organizations. Parliament set up the Council for European Integration in a move to ensure a mechanism for communication and coordination in this process and in the process of adjusting the national legislation to the EU’s, IPN reports.
According to the legislature’s press service, the Council will coordinate aspects related to the implementation of the European integration policies and will organize public hearings on the issue. It will also monitor the implementation of the Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU.
The Council will have the right to ask the Government to present information about the European integration process, to question the members of the Cabinet, to state opinions on Moldova’s positions in the relations with the EU, to monitor the negotiations between the Government and the EU institutions, to exercise control over the Government as regards the use of financial instruments and European assistance.
This will be regularly informed by the Cabinet, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, about subjects of interest for Moldova from the European agenda and the results of the negotiations and about the fulfillment of the commitments to adjust the legislation and the way the European funds are used.
The Council is headed by Speaker Andrian Candu. It has 15 members, including the Deputy Speakers of Parliament, the nine commission chairpersons, the heads of the Moldova – EU Parliamentary Association Committee and Moldova’s Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, the secretary general of Parliament and the head of the General Legal Division of the Parliament’s Secretariat.
Under the functioning regulations, the Council for European Integration meets once a month and its meetings are usually public.
