Law on measures for children with deviant behavior to be subject to parliamentary control

12:21 | 15.02.2023 Category: Political

Chisinau, February 15 /MOLDPRES/- The law on measures and services for children with deviant behavior will be evaluated ex-post for impact. A decision on the matter was approved today by the Human Rights and Interethnic Relations Commission.

In the context of the implementation of the parliamentary control function set in the Action Plan for 2023, the Human Rights and Interethnic Relations Commission, at the joint meeting with the independent experts initiated carrying out the ex-post impact assessment of the Law on measures and services for children with deviant behavior.

In carrying out parliamentary control by subjecting the ex-post impact assessment of the normative act, the Commission set as its priority the identification of legislative gaps and the submission of concrete recommendations to the government.

This exercise will be an absolute first for the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova and, at the same time, it will serve as a model for taking over good European practices in the parliamentary control, as it involves a thorough evaluation based on analyses, case studies and questionnaires, interviews, focus groups and reference groups etc.

The exercise is to be carried out with the support of the Council of Europe Office, in the context of the implementation of the Action Plan of the Council of Europe for the Republic of Moldova (2021 - 2024) and the Project Protection of children against violence and its prevention, including online in Moldova during 1 January 2022 –31 December 2023.

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