Thirty-three normative documents will be subject to ex-post impact assessment and ex-post legal evaluation. This is one of the instruments for ensuring parliamentary scrutiny. The ex-post evaluation allows the legislature to analyze data on how the legislative act was implemented, IPN reports.
The plan of ex-post evaluation of normative documents for 2024, approved by the Parliament’s Standing Bureau, provides that 14 normative documents will be subject to assessment by seven standing parliamentary commissions. Most of the normative documents will be evaluated by the Commission for National Security, Defense and Public Order. These include the Law on Identity Documents in the National Passport System, the Law on Preparing Citizens for the Defense of Homeland, the Law on State Secret, the Law on the General Inspectorate of Carabineers and the Law on Data Exchange and Interoperability.
The Law on Local Public Administration, the Law on the Status of Chisinau Municipality and the Law on the Address System will be subject to evaluation by the Commission for Public Administration and Regional Development. Two other laws will be subject to evaluation on the platform of the Commission for Culture, Education, Research, Youth, Sports and the Media, namely the law to approve the Nomenclature of professional training fields and specialties for staff training in higher education institutions, cycle I, and the law on creative people and creative unions.
The Commission for Social Protection, Health and Family will carry out the ex-post impact assessment of the Law on Social Assistance, while the Legal Commission for Appointments and Immunities will evaluate the Law on Amnesty in connection with the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Moldova. The Commission for Agriculture and Food Industry aims to evaluate the Law on Plant Protection Products and Fertilizers, while the Commission for Environment, Climate and Green Transition will assess the Forest Code.
The General Legal Division of the Parliament’s Secretariat will subject another 19 normative documents to ex-post legal evaluation. These include the Decentralization Law, the Traffic Safety Law, the Medicines Law, the Electronic Communications Law, the Law on State Guaranteed Legal Aid, etc.
The ex-post evaluation on the implementation of normative documents provides for two ways of evaluation – legal, to verify whether all necessary normative documents were adopted or if there are obstacles to the application of the law, and ex-post impact, to analyze the efficiency of the legislative act, respectively improving its implementation.
