Victoria Iftodi: We are working on Civil code modernization
Within today's session of the Government, Victoria Iftodi, the Justice minister came up with some declarations. She presented the project Common Reference Objective and talked about the modernization of the civil code.
"The project was made by the academic sphere and leaded by the Justice ministry. Thus, it was a work in a group that organized over 70 sessions and four press conferences.
The proposals that came up during the debates are more than 400. Of course, the working group leaded by the Justice Minister analyzed and accepted the most relevant ideas. Especially, they took into consideration the last evolution on European and international arena.
Also, good practices have been examined in over 15 civil codes, such as Germany, France, Romania. We hope and believe that best practices are developed in the spirit of the most transparent private law legislation in the European Union.
The aim is to be in a better correlation with the Vienna regulations and principles on international commodity contracts and the principles of international trade agreements.
The modernization of the civil code aims to make civil legislation more accurate and predictable. To better regulate the rights of the personality and their limits. Better protect the validity of contracts, which will have a positive impact, both in securing civil relations, but will also have an impact on the business environment.
The security of civil relations is indisputable, it is very important for the business environment and for foreign investments. Of course, it also has an impact on the citizen of the Republic of Moldova, because the contracts will be predictable.
I would also like to mention that the regulations bring clarity in the rules of the device and the imperative of the civil code. What would this mean in practice? The character device means contractual freedom, therefore this regulation will also be useful for the unification of judicial practice, because the judicial practice is uncertain at present. It is not uniform, by analyzing court rulings, 50 to 50 go when, where the parties can, the business, the business to regroup contractually.
The civil code is a limit, that is, a first minimum of insurance, instead of the business they can go down by contract. When signing contracts, managers will take into account their responsibilities.
As regards the rules on consumer protection, the protection of the citizens themselves, in this respect the provisions of the new Civil Code provide protection for the consumer and in this context these rules are imperative.
We are proud to have been presenting to the government, we hope to promote and discuss with lawyers and we hope it will be adopted without distorting the concept. Media coverage is important for implementation.
If we were to go to concrete, impact-related, to those who are not lawyers, we will have many debates, including TV. One of the important chapters is that investment contracts will be eliminated and will be matched in sales contracts plus future purchase contracts, "Victoria Justice Minister Iftodi said.