The process of integrating the Republic of Moldova into the European Union (EU) will take several years, and the harmonization of legislation does not mean just a „copy-paste” according to the text of the European legislation. In addition to the adoption of laws by the Moldovan authorities, the EU will analyze and evaluate how they work, said the head of the EU delegation in Chisinau, Janis Mazeiks, during an event to present a manual on the practices of harmonizing legislation as a key element in the process of European integration, Radio Chisinau, informs, Agerpres reports.

According to Janis Mazeiks, the process of integrating the Republic of Moldova into the European Union will take several years, and Chisinau is currently facing a difficult task in this regard.

The European diplomat emphasized that the accession process does not end with the approval of the legislation. Janis Mazeiks specified that in 2023 the European Union will evaluate the alignment of the legislation of the Republic of Moldova with the European one and will analyze not only the legislative acts, but also the way they work. Asked how he sees the integration of the Republic of Moldova into the EU bloc in the context of the Transnistrian problem, the head of the EU delegation specified that the time factor is a key answer to this situation, specifying that the Transnistrian region will be taken into account in the accession process.

For his part, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova, Vladimir Cuc, declared that the year 2023 will be an intense one, and that the first report will be published in the autumn that will show the progress in each chapter of the Republic Moldova, At the same time, he emphasized that the Moldovan authorities are at the stage of finalizing the composition of each working group regarding the implementation of the mechanism of organization and preparation of the process for each chapter of accession.

Latvian diplomat Janis Mazeiks officially took over the post of head of the EU delegation in Chisinau on September 1, 2021, from his predecessor, Slovak Peter Michalko, whose mandate expired on August 31 of the same year.

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