Government approves creation of Centre for Law Harmonisation

The Government approved at the Wednesday’s session the creation of the Centre for Law Harmonisation. This institution’s creation is stipulated in a Government decision of November 24, 2006, regarding the harmonisation of Moldova’s legislation with the Community Acquis. The Centre for Law Harmonisation is being set under the subordination of the Ministry of Justice and will be partially financed using budgetary financial means allocated to the Ministry. The Centre’s main mission is to assist the ministries when drawing up normative documents with relevance to the EU law. At present the process of working out the annual national Plan for Law harmonisation has already begun. The relevant ministries are requested to submit proposals for projects related to the normative and legislative documents. Subsequently, the proposals will be itemised in the national plan that will be presented to the Government for consideration. Moldova starts this year a systematic process of harmonising the national legislation with the Community Acquis, after the Parliament passed in the summer of 2006 the Law on the amendment of laws regarding the legislative and normative documents, and in November 2006, the Mechanism for harmonising the national legislation with the EU law. The legislation harmonisation is not an obligation for Moldova at present. The Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation between Moldova and EU of July 1998, as well as the Moldova-EU Action Plan, stipulate that Moldova will align the national legislation with the EU law optionally.