Moldovan acting premier attends news conference on EU evaluation missions

Chisinau, 3 December /MOLDPRES/ - Acting Prime Minister Gheorghe Brega along with Head of the European Union Delegation in Chisinau Pirkka Tapiola today participated in a news conference on EU missions on evaluation of law enforcement institutions of Moldova, the government's communication and media relations department has reported.

At the event, the acting prime minister said that the subject of presence of an expert mission was of increased interest for the society. "We have made an absolutely necessary step, that will allow us seeing at what level we are when speaking about the process of reforming the justice sector or the one of fighting corruption," Gheorghe Brega said.  

The acting prime minister guaranteed the needed support on behalf of the government, within its competence, so that the expert mission carries out its work without impediments.  Brega said the assistance provided by EU to Moldova represented a real, viable and useful instrument for authorities in calibrating law norms and updating institutional mechanisms of investigating the big corruption, as well as the generalized corruption from the state apparatus and public institutions. " I have have great confidence in the evaluation missions, even if the latter often represent gloomy assessments of what happens and what we have to do on our long European way," Gheorghe Brega said.

The evaluation will allow identifying strong and weak points of the system and will back national efforts to consolidate principles of the state based on rule of law, re-establish the residents' trust in law enforcement institutions and return to the European path of economic growth and prosperity. At the end of the mission's exercise, the evaluated institutions will enjoy professional and objective advice and recommendations in terms of reform implementation in the justice sector, anti-money laundering system and anti-corruption system.

The European Union's evaluation mission, made up of 15 experts from similar organisations of EU countries, will monitor the National Anticorruption Centre, National Integrity Commission, Constitutional Court, Prosecutor General's Office, National Justice institute, Superior Council of Magistracy, Supreme Court of Justice, Ombudsman and Justice Ministry.

(Editor A. Raileanu)