CCIA released today the progress report for the CCIA report no. 2 "Resetting Republic of Moldova’s Anti-Corruption Institutions". During the event, the results of the implementation of the recommendations offered by the CCIA were presented and discussions and debates were organized with public authorities, civil society organizations and development partners.
Report no. 2 of the CCIA published in November 2022 provided an overview of the anti-corruption and integrity architecture of the Republic of Moldova. It examined perceptions and realities, past and present institutional efforts and the policies underlying them, as well as current legislative and organizational challenges faced by institutions. The report also contained 54 Recommendations to different institutions in the Republic of Moldova, aiming at improving the loopholes and flaws identified by the CCIA. The CCIA manner of operation is explicit in that following the launch of each report, the CCIA will follow-up with the responsible institutions and assess the manner and level of implementation of the provided Recommendations.
This progress report evaluated the implementation of the recommendations from Report no. 2 CCIA 12 months after publication. The percentage of implementation of the 52 recommendations analyzed in this progress report is promising: 40 recommendations (77%) have been fully or partially implemented, and 12 recommendations (23%) have not been implemented. For two recommendations, the implementation deadline has not yet expired.
CCIA member Drago Kos said: “The authorities provided full and prompt responses to the Committee's requests for information. At the same time, the authorities must continue to implement all the recommendations of the CCIA".
Laura Ștefan, CCIA member "We welcome the progress that the Republic of Moldova has made in implementing the CCIA recommendations. It is important to have constant communication between the CCIA and the institutions in the Republic of Moldova that have competences in implementing the recommendations formulated to ensure that all efforts are correctly and fully reflected".
At the same time, the authorities must make efforts to implement recommendations aimed at amending the Law on Specialized Prosecutor's Offices to allow the heads of specialized prosecutor's offices to select their own teams of prosecutors; The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office must develop and request a fully justified budget, and the General Prosecutor's Office and the Parliament must quickly analyze and approve such a request; CNA and ARBI must request sufficient financial resources to be able to hire private law firms to help recover assets in other states; courts must immediately inform ARBI of final confiscation decisions; Parliament must strengthen the ANI mandate with activities to prevent corruption and ensure integrity; ANI must develop and improve verification capabilities to be able to verify in detail at least 10% of the total number of declarations per year; ANI should cooperate with the National Institute of Justice regarding the training of judges and prosecutors in matters of integrity; courts must organize public hearings in all cases of resonance; the courts must ensure a unified jurisprudence in matters of integrity.
The full progress report can be found here.
