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Press release: Three non-governmental organisations monitor the implementation of the Government's and Parliament's priority reform agenda

Friday, 13 October 20173901 views
Press release: Three non-governmental organisations monitor the implementation of the Government's and Parliament's priority reform agenda

Automatically translated summary. The full article is available in Romanian.

Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup”, the Association for Participatory Democracy “ADEPT” and the Legal Resources Centre from Moldova, with USAID support, have launched monitoring of the Roadmap for the priority reform agenda for the second half of 2017, to be carried out from October 2017 to January 2018.

The monitoring covers all eight reform areas and results appear on an interactive dashboard updated every two weeks. Two reports, interim and final, will be presented at round tables in November 2017 and January 2018. By 13 October 2017 the Roadmap was 10% implemented; 80% of actions are due in October-December. Of 51 actions, only 4 had not started, but 7 of the 10 actions planned for July-September were unfinished. In total, 32 actions are rated “ongoing positive” and 10 “ongoing negative”.

Key achievements include the Law on banking activity (Basel III), Labour Code amendments, the removal of about 140 permits, saving MDL 43.6 million for the private sector and MDL 18.4 million for the public sector, and cutting control bodies from 58 to 18. Concerns include low transparency of public administration reform, draft personal data protection changes on anonymising court rulings, and delays in adopting the Civil Society Development Strategy 2017-2020.

View the original article in Romanian