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How the reforms undertaken by the Government over the past four months have progressed

Wednesday, 6 July 20168231 views
How the reforms undertaken by the Government over the past four months have progressed

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

Fewer than one third of the actions the Government planned under its priority reform agenda for March–June 2016 have been fully implemented. This is the finding of an interim monitoring report on the reform roadmap, prepared in Chișinău by ADEPT, the Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” and the Legal Resources Centre from Moldova (CRJM).

Of the roadmap's 69 actions, deadlines had expired for 57 by the end of June. Overall, 29% were completed without shortcomings, 27% with shortcomings, 23% are progressing positively and 12% negatively, while implementation has not started for 9%.

Main shortfalls include the reform of the National Anticorruption Centre, a new Audiovisual Code, the slow investigation into the 2014 banking frauds, slow reform of the National Bank of Moldova, and the failure to negotiate the best electricity price. Achievements include the laws on the prosecution service and court reorganisation, the integrity package, the Investment Attraction and Export Promotion Strategy 2016-2020, banking reform along Basel 3 principles, the “unfreezing” of IMF talks and public administration reform. A final report is due in September. The interactive tool will be updated weekly.

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