The Moldovan legislation regulating the status of public officials and establishing anticorruption rules consists of multiple laws and subordinated normative acts. Recently, the Moldovan Parliament has significantly changed the legislative framework in this field by passing new laws that came into force on 1st January 2009.

The main laws and regulations setting anticorruption rules are:

1.1. International anticorruption regulations

• UN Convention against corruption dated 3 October 2003, ratified by Moldova on 1 October 2007;
• Criminal anticorruption Convention dated 27 January 1999, ratified by Moldova on 30 October 2003, and Addendum Protocol to the Criminal anticorruption Convention dated 15 May 2003 ratified by Moldova on 6 July 2007;
• Civil anticorruption Convention dated 4 November 1999, ratified by Moldova on 19 December 2003.

1.2. Laws

• Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 90-XVI on Preventing and Combating Corruption dated 25 April 2008;
• Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova dated 18 April 2002;
• Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 16-XVI on Conflict of Interests dated 15 February 2008;
• Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 25-XVI on the Code of Ethics of the Public Official dated 22 February 2008;
• Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 158-XVI on Public Service and the Status of Public Officials dated 4 July 2008;
• Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 199 on Status of Persons Holding High Public Functions dated 16 July 2010.

1.3. Resolutions of the Moldovan Parliament

• Resolution of the Moldovan Parliament No. 421-XV on Approval of the National Strategy for Preventing and Fighting Corruption and of the Action Plan for Implementing of the National Strategy, dated 16 December 2004.

1.4. Resolutions of the Moldovan Government

• Resolution No. 1341 of the Moldovan Government "On Establishing the Coordination Council for Prevention and Combating Corruption, on approval of its Regulation and List of Members”, dated 28 November 2008;
• Resolution No. 1341 of the Moldovan Government "On Approval of Regulation on the Mechanism for Reporting and Monitoring the Level of Corruption within Public Authorities”, dated 19 December 2008.