Raluca Pruna: CVM reached limit, Romania has own monitoring tools

The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) has reached its limit, and Romania has the institutional, legislative capacity to further monitor what the CVM was covering, Justice Minister Raluca Pruna on asserted on Monday night. 

"The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism has contributed significantly to the reform and strengthening of the judiciary. Considering the 10 years that have passed since this mechanism has been established through a decision of the [European] Commission, I believe it's opportune [to have] at least a time horizon, (...), that is a limit in the future when we know this mechanism is lifted; I believe that such a horizon is necessary. (...) I guess that any kind of such mechanism reaches its limit at some point, and the CVM, from where I stand, has reached its limit, given that the Romanian society has proven that it is mature and could insource certain processes," Pruna told private television Realitatea TV. 

She added that Romania has got its own institutional and legislative mechanism to monitor the current scope of the CVM; one of them is the national anti-corruption strategy, she mentioned. 

"The national anti-corruption strategy is such a mechanism by which, if we know how to enforce it, we will have measures and safety nets which are absolutely equivalent to the CVM," the minister added.

AGERPRES