Reform of Judicial System is needed – PM

Continuing and pushing forward judicial reform becomes an imperative necessity due to the European Integration objective and means uniting efforts on improving the legislative framework, ensuring all necessary conditions for a proper functioning of the whole judicial system and fulfilling the recommendations of the Council of Europe’s experts, the PM Vasile Tarlev declared on Wednesday, September 7 at the conference “Activity of the judicial reform in Moldova: Achievements, problems and perspectives”. According to the prime-minister, in order to ensure a high instruction level for the persons employed in the legal system, the National Justice Institute was instituted through a law. However, Tarlev recognized that the Moldovan judicial system still has some deficiencies and asked the participants to debate at the conference such problems as diminishing the examination terms of the legal cases, creating more efficient mechanism on executing courts’ decisions; to raise the trust of the citizen in the judicial system and legal process etc. International experts, judges and jurists from the Republic of Moldova will participate in the aforementioned conference, which will last 2 days. The International Scientific Conference “Activity of the judicial reform in Moldova: Achievements, problems and perspectives” aims at executing the National Plan on implementing the joint program of the European Commission and Council of Europe for supporting democratic reforms in Moldova.