The Cabinet approved the Agreement between the Parties to the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe on the Automated Exchange of DNA Data, Dactyloscopic Data and Vehicle Registration Data and will submit it to Parliament for ratification, IPN reports.

The conditions in which the genetic information will be provided are defined in the law on juridical genetic registration so that the principle of confidentiality and other provisions of the national and international legislation are respected. The law takes effect on January 1, 2019.

The agreement was signed in Vienna on September 13 this year. The parties that will implement the agreement are: Moldova, Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Hungaru, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. The document will be valid for an indefinite period.

The first genetic testing laboratory in Moldova was opened on June 13, 2018, as part of the Center of Forensic Medicine based in Chisinau.