Two bills on the reorganization of economic courts, one submitted by the Liberal Party and another by the Ministry of Justice, were adopted today in Parliament on a first reading, and will be combined before being considered in the second. The Liberal bill provides the reduction of the economic courts' jurisdiction, transferring the authority to hear most economic cases over to the courts of general jurisdiction. Liberal leader Mihai Ghimpu stated that the Constitutional Court's duty was to guarantee the supremacy of the fundamental law, leaving the task of deciding on the opportunity of adopting one law or another to Parliament. He further stated that the government should not tolerate corrupt judges. The bill presented by the MoJ provides the renaming of economic courts to commerce courts and the liquidation of the Economic Court of Appeals. The reorganized commerce courts will have the jurisdiction to hear appeals against arbitration awards, to issue enforcement writs and to hear cases concerning the reorganization of juridical persons; other economic cases will be transferred to courts of general jurisdiction and appeals will be heard by the Chisinau Court of Appeals. Justice Minister Oleg Efrim said that the bill didn't contradict the decision of the Constitutional Court, which found the proposed liquidation of specialized courts to be unconstitutional, following a complaint from a group of Communist lawmakers. The combined bill will be considered in a second reading next week.