T +33(0)390214895        www.coe.int/congress        [email protected]

Ref. CG-017 (2016)

Jean-Claude Frécon signs post-monitoring roadmap with government of the Republic of Moldova

Strasbourg, 8 July 2016 – The President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, Jean-Claude Frécon, and the Secretary General of the Government of the Republic of Moldova, Tudor Copaci, signed a roadmap for the implementation of Recommendation 322 (2012) on local and regional democracy in the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau on 7 July 2016, in the presence of Tatiana Badan, Chair of the Congress of Local Authorities of Moldova (CALM).

“The signing of the roadmap marks our shared commitment to work towards improved local and regional democracy rooted in the principles laid down in the European Charter of Local Self-Government,” said Jean-Claude Frécon.  He pointed out that the recommendation adopted by the Congress in 2012 invited the Moldovan authorities to implement the National Decentralisation Strategy.  “The strategy was adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova on 5 April 2012 and supplemented with an action plan (2012-2015) aimed mainly at implementing decentralisation.  Your commitment to this short timeframe once again demonstrates strong political will,” he added.

The full implementation of the Strategy is one of the priority recommendations of the roadmap, with provision being made, for 2016, for monitoring of implementation of the revised law on public finances, strengthening of the mechanisms for consultation between central government and local authorities, clarification of the powers of tier-1 and tier-2 local authorities and of central government and relaxation of the national authorities’ supervision of local authorities.

The roadmap ceremony ended with the Congress President presenting the “Consilium Europae” medal to Tudor Copaci, in the presence of many members of the Moldovan delegation to the Congress and several CALM officials.

The Republic of Moldova ratified the European Charter of Local Self Government in 1997. The countries which have ratified the Charter are bound by its provisions.  The Charter requires compliance with a minimum number of rights, which form the European bedrock of local self-government. The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities makes sure that these principles are observed.

Speech by Jean-Claude Frécon (French)

Recommendation 322 (2012)

European Charter of Local Self-Government

Photo Gallery (Flickr)

The Congress has two chambers, the Chamber of Local Authorities and the Chamber of Regions. It brings together 324 full and 324 substitute members representing more than 200 000 European territorial communities.
President of the Congress: Jean-Claude Frécon (France, SOC), President of the Chamber of Local Authorities: Anders Knape (Sweden, EPP/CCE), President of the Chamber of Regions: Gudrun Mosler-Törnström (Austria, SOC)
Political Groups: Socialist Group (SOC), Group of the European People’s Party (EPP/CCE), Independent and Liberal Democrat Group (ILDG), European Conservatives & Reformists Group  (ECR)