{"id":449571,"date":"2021-08-05T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=449571"},"modified":"2021-08-05T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:31:45","slug":"the-european-commission-report-moldova-continues-to-fulfil-the-visa-liberalisation-benchmarks-but-there-is-still-room-for-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-european-commission-report-moldova-continues-to-fulfil-the-visa-liberalisation-benchmarks-but-there-is-still-room-for-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Commission Report: Moldova continues to fulfil the visa liberalisation benchmarks but there is still room for improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The <strong>4th <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/home-affairs\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/04082021_report_commission_european_parliament_council_fourth_report_visa_suspension_mechanism_com-2021-602_en.pdf\">Report under the Visa Suspension Mechanism<\/a> <\/strong>from the <strong>European Commission (EC)<\/strong> to the European Parliament and the Council was recently published. Given that one of the Commission&#8217;s main responsibilities is to <span style=\"color: #993300;\">ensure appropriate monitoring of the visa free regime,<\/span> the European institution reports annually on the fulfilment of the visa exemption requirements by the countries that have successfully completed a visa liberalisation dialogue, including the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>The report covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine. It focuses on actions taken to ensure the continuous fulfilment of visa liberalisation benchmarks, migration, asylum and readmission, judicial cooperation with the EU and with Member States, public order and security, and provides certain recommendations for each country.<\/p>\n<p>The report says that, <span style=\"color: #993300;\">overall, Moldova continues to fulfil the visa liberalisation benchmarks.<\/span> <em>&#8220;However, further efforts are needed to address the issue of unfounded asylum applications, as well as in the areas of financial fraud, anti-money laundering, the prevention and fight against corruption and organised crime.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The EC report states that Moldova is making continuous efforts in order to improve the capacity of detection of false or falsified documents, both at the state borders and inside the country. At the same time, the number of Moldovan nationals being refused entry in Member States continued to rise by 28% in 2020, reaching the highest number on record. The number of Moldovan nationals attempting to cross the EU borders irregularly remained very low, while the number of Moldovan nationals found to be irregularly staying rose by 49%.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the number of return orders issued to Moldovan nationals decreased by 10%. The number of effective returns was 44% less than in<br \/>\n2019. The return rate decreased from 63% in 2019 to 39% in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to judiciary, the report concludes that<em> &#8220;Moldova has invested substantially in policy reforms to combat the nexus of corruption, organised crime and illicit financial flows. However, there is still room to strengthen and streamline capacity and results in the seizure and confiscation of assets linked to illicit activity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In 2020, a new Chief Prosecutor for the Office of Combatting Organised Crime was selected without competition.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, investigation and prosecution of the 2014 banking fraud <em>&#8220;had been repeatedly postponed, charges had been dropped against shareholders in the affected banks and convicted perpetrators had been released from prison early,&#8221;<\/em> the report also mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the European Commission recommended: tailoring the information campaigns on the visa-free regime to relevant migrant<br \/>\nprofiles, ensuring further alignment of Moldova\u2019s visa policy with the EU lists of visa-required third countries, adopting a strategy and action plan for justice reforms, as well as making constitutional amendments related to the judiciary in line with the Venice Commission\u2019s recommendations, ensuring that judicial appointments are carried out in a merit-based and transparent selection process, ensuring the effective implementation of the asset declaration system by high-level actors, imposing effective division of the competences of the anti-corruption agencies, and ensuring that the Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office focuses on high-level corruption cases.<\/p>\n<p>The report also included recommendations regarding implementing the law on anti-money laundering sanctions, progressing in the investigation and prosecution of major money laundering schemes, setting up a new asset recovery mechanism and finalising the investigation of the 2014 banking fraud with the purpose of bringing all responsible to justice and recovering the misappropriated funds.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration takes note of the findings and recommendations of the European Commission&#8217;s report and expresses its readiness to continue, together with other competent national authorities, cooperation with the representatives of the European Commission in order to implement those recommendations,&#8221;<\/em> is mentioned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/mfa.gov.md\/ro\/content\/republica-moldova-continua-sa-indeplineasca-criteriile-care-au-stat-la-baza-regimului-fara\">press release<\/a> of the Moldovan institution.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The 4th Report under the Visa Suspension Mechanism from the European Commission (EC) to the European Parliament and the Council was recently published. Given that one of the Commission&#8217;s main responsibilities is to ensure appropriate monitoring of the visa free regime, the European institution reports annually on the fulfilment of the visa exemption requirements by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":449572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,3,56],"tags":[115,514,168,35,162,27,124,1098],"class_list":["post-449571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-en","category-justice","category-politics","category-reportaje","tag-corruption","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-important","tag-justice","tag-moldova","tag-report","tag-visa-free"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The <strong>4th <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/home-affairs\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/04082021_report_commission_european_parliament_council_fourth_report_visa_suspension_mechanism_com-2021-602_en.pdf\">Report under the Visa Suspension Mechanism<\/a> <\/strong>from the <strong>European Commission (EC)<\/strong> to the European Parliament and the Council was recently published. Given that one of the Commission&#8217;s main responsibilities is to <span style=\"color: #993300;\">ensure appropriate monitoring of the visa free regime,<\/span> the European institution reports annually on the fulfilment of the visa exemption requirements by the countries that have successfully completed a visa liberalisation dialogue, including the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>The report covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine. It focuses on actions taken to ensure the continuous fulfilment of visa liberalisation benchmarks, migration, asylum and readmission, judicial cooperation with the EU and with Member States, public order and security, and provides certain recommendations for each country.<\/p>\n<p>The report says that, <span style=\"color: #993300;\">overall, Moldova continues to fulfil the visa liberalisation benchmarks.<\/span> <em>&#8220;However, further efforts are needed to address the issue of unfounded asylum applications, as well as in the areas of financial fraud, anti-money laundering, the prevention and fight against corruption and organised crime.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The EC report states that Moldova is making continuous efforts in order to improve the capacity of detection of false or falsified documents, both at the state borders and inside the country. At the same time, the number of Moldovan nationals being refused entry in Member States continued to rise by 28% in 2020, reaching the highest number on record. The number of Moldovan nationals attempting to cross the EU borders irregularly remained very low, while the number of Moldovan nationals found to be irregularly staying rose by 49%.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the number of return orders issued to Moldovan nationals decreased by 10%. The number of effective returns was 44% less than in<br \/>\n2019. The return rate decreased from 63% in 2019 to 39% in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to judiciary, the report concludes that<em> &#8220;Moldova has invested substantially in policy reforms to combat the nexus of corruption, organised crime and illicit financial flows. However, there is still room to strengthen and streamline capacity and results in the seizure and confiscation of assets linked to illicit activity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In 2020, a new Chief Prosecutor for the Office of Combatting Organised Crime was selected without competition.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, investigation and prosecution of the 2014 banking fraud <em>&#8220;had been repeatedly postponed, charges had been dropped against shareholders in the affected banks and convicted perpetrators had been released from prison early,&#8221;<\/em> the report also mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the European Commission recommended: tailoring the information campaigns on the visa-free regime to relevant migrant<br \/>\nprofiles, ensuring further alignment of Moldova\u2019s visa policy with the EU lists of visa-required third countries, adopting a strategy and action plan for justice reforms, as well as making constitutional amendments related to the judiciary in line with the Venice Commission\u2019s recommendations, ensuring that judicial appointments are carried out in a merit-based and transparent selection process, ensuring the effective implementation of the asset declaration system by high-level actors, imposing effective division of the competences of the anti-corruption agencies, and ensuring that the Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office focuses on high-level corruption cases.<\/p>\n<p>The report also included recommendations regarding implementing the law on anti-money laundering sanctions, progressing in the investigation and prosecution of major money laundering schemes, setting up a new asset recovery mechanism and finalising the investigation of the 2014 banking fraud with the purpose of bringing all responsible to justice and recovering the misappropriated funds.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration takes note of the findings and recommendations of the European Commission&#8217;s 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