OREANDA-NEWS. The cabinet today approved a national action plan on the implementation of the Moldova – European Union Association Agreement in 2017-2019. The document sets the principal measures due to be undertaken by the authorities to fulfill the commitments taken before European institutions, including concerning the adjusting the national legislation to the EU acquis.

Touching upon the importance of the concerned draft, Prime Minister Pavel Filip said that it represented a map of the cabinet’s priorities for the next three years. The PM also said that the draft’s implementation would ensure Moldova’s advancement in its European integration, chosen as strategic orientation of the country. “I am happy that we end the year on an ascendant trend and on the European dimension. The encouraging and appreciation messages by high European officials should turn us more mobilized and more organized in 2017. I thank all those who worked on the elaboration of this action plan,” the prime minister stressed.  

Under the decision, the Justice Ministry’s Legislation Harmonization Centre is appointed in charge of carrying out measures of transposing EU’s legislation; the Foreign and European Integration Ministry remains the general coordinator of the Association Agreement’s implementation and the Economics Ministry will be competent with the implementation of the provisions on facilitating the trade.