Starting October, the Parliament will focus more attention on its power to monitor and control the enforcement of laws, without affecting the lawmaking process, Speaker Marian Lupu told a press conference on Thursday, July 26. According to the speaker, until present there have been adopted a multitude of pieces of legislation, but their number and quality is not what a state based on the rule of law really needs. The main condition is that these laws are observed and put into practice in a proper and equitable manner. This is one of Moldova’s major problems, the speaker said. From now on, the Parliament has to focus more attention on the other attribute it has, that of controlling and supervising the enforcement of the adopted legislation, Lupu underlined. The speaker further stated that at the recent meeting of cooperation between Moldova and the EU it was found that the activity of the legislature was generally positive, but the shortcomings relate actually to the enforcement of laws. The Parliament doesn’t have to be treated merely as a voting and punishing machine, Lupu said. The speaker explained that two landmarks guided the activity of the Parliament – the lawmaking activity deriving from the commitments under the Moldova-EU Action Plan, and the timetable of reforms agreed with the Council of Europe. “There are sectors that have advanced significantly, but obviously, in some others there is still a lot to be done”. The speaker also said that all the legislative acts agreed with the Council of Europe have been adopted, except for two – the draft law on political parties and their financing, and the Education Code, which could be debated in the fall-winter session. The spring-summer session will end on Friday, July 27, while the Parliament is expected to resume its work in October.