The package of legislative initiatives aimed at combating corruption and the bill on the testing of justice system players’ professional integrity, which were drafted by the Justice Ministry, generally meet the Council of Europe’s standards even if some aspects need increased attention so as to prevent possible abuses. These are the preliminary conclusions of the Council of Europe experts presented by the deputy head of the CE Representative Office in Chisinau Ghenadie Barba in the final session of public debates on these initiatives, Info-Prim Neo reports. The CE experts formulated a number of objections and proposals for improving these bills. They refer mainly to the provisions of the future law on the testing of professional integrity and to the polygraph testing. They said that such innovations do not run counter to the practices accepted by the Council of Europe and Moldova can become a model as regards their implementation in Southeastern Europe. Lilia Ionita, deputy head of the Justice Ministry’s Normative Documents Division, said that the bills will be supplemented based on the suggestions of the CE experts and the notices of law enforcement bodies and international organizations and will be sent to the Government over the next two weeks. As regards the national institutions, only the Supreme Council of Magistrates disapproved of the anticorruption initiatives. The Council opposes the adoption of these bills, invoking the European Convention on Human Rights and the status of judge, which differs completely from the status of other persons covered by the anticorruption law.