The Guide to perform vulnerability expertise of drafts normative acts in terms of human rights and gender equality represents a first step in creating a set of minimum standards applicable to the conceptualization, elaboration and promotion process of drafts normative acts and which will contribute to: ensure compliance of legal norms to the national and international human rights standards, including gender equality; prevent the vulnerability factors’ appearance and/or identification, which violates/limits/ignores or could violate/limit/ignore human rights/gender equality and to prevent or diminish their possible negative effects; prevent the Republic of Moldova condemnation to the European Court of Human Rights.
Vulnerability expertise of drafts normative acts in terms of human rights and gender equality, according to the Guide, could be carry out both concerning basic drafts normative acts, as well as on drafts normative acts on amending, completing and repealing. The Guide can be also applied in the expertise process of normative acts in force.
It could become a guideline for public authorities’ representatives in the process of normative acts’ elaboration and adoption in line with international standards on human rights protections, including on gender equality.
