Creation of the liberal judicial officers in Moldova

A priority of the Government

Located in South-east Europe, between Romania, in the west, and the Ukraine, in the east, Moldova has a total population of approximately 4.300.000 inhabitants. The country currently counts 180 judicial officers. On 18 October 2010, the National chamber of the judicial officers and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for Moldova organized a big conference to celebrate the new law on the judicial officers, creating their independent statute. High representatives of the State took part in this great official meeting: Vlad Filat, Prime Minister, Alexandru Tanase, minister for justice, and Victor Catan, Home Secretary. Were also present, Valeriu Zubco, public prosecutor, Adrian Stoica, secretary of the UIHJ, Dovile Satskaustiene, director of the National chamber of the judicial officers of Lithuania, Ok Kustmei, member of the board of directors of the National chamber of the judicial officers of Estonia, Roman Talmaci, president of the National chamber of the judicial officers of Moldova, and Andrei Brighidin, manager of the Justice and Human Rights Department of the UNDP Moldova.

Mr. Filat declared that the reform of the judicial officers and the judicial power as a whole is a priority of his Government. The Prime Minister indicated to have appreciated the role and the determination of the ministry for justice in the promotion of the reform of the occupation of judicial officers. He stated that in the absence of an occupation of efficient judicial officer, court orders are only simple lines on a sheet of paper. Bills have been in hand in Moldova for nine years and he said to be satisfied that they could succeed today.

Mr. Tanase declared that, in the absence of an adapted and effective implementation of legal decisions, the entire legal system is quasi-non-existent. The Government spends several hundreds of millions of Lei to reform the judicial authorities. But to avoid judgments before the European Court of Human Rights, it is necessary that legal decisions are carried out. That necessarily implies that the occupation of judicial officer is effective. The reform of the profession was thus a political priority for the Government during this year. The Minister for justice declared he was very pleased to have achieved the process.
For his part Mr. Catan declared that the police force is the authority on which the Moldovan liberal judicial officers can trustfully rely on to make enforcement procedures even more effective and thus to consolidate the trust of the citizens in the legal system.

Reinforcing the prestige of the profession

In his quality of president of the National chamber of the judicial officers of Moldova, Roman Talmaci declared that the new statute of the Moldovan judicial officers must reinforce the prestige of this profession but also give more credibility to the legal action in general. “The Moldovan judicial officers are conscious of the heavy responsibilities which await them within the framework of their new statute but will face this challenge with great determination” announced Mr. Talmaci.

In the name of Leo Netten, president of the UIHJ, and his board, Adrian Stoica, highly congratulated the president of the National chamber of the judicial officers of Moldova and the Moldovan authorities for the reforms undertaken in this country. The secretary of the UIHJ added that the liberal judicial officers will have in heart, through this reform, to strengthen the Rule of law in this beautiful land.

Such good news is followed by another. We are delighted to confirm that Moldova must join the UIHJ at the time of the next permanent council of the UIHJ, at the end of November 2010 in Paris.