
Legal services proposal request - CILC Haga Sucursala din Republica Moldova
The call aims to hire the services of a highly qualified law office or law firm to support Moldova’s extraordinary vetting process of judges and prosecutors, which is being carried out to strengthen public trust in the justice system. As part of this reform, Moldova has enacted Law 26/2022, Law 65/2023 and Law 252/2023, and established three dedicated commissions: one for pre-vetting, one for vetting judges, and one for vetting prosecutors (hereinafter commissions 1, 2 and 3, respectively).
The Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC), assigned by the European Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, facilitates the commissions responsible for the vetting and their Secretariat.
The selected law firm will provide legal assistance to the Commissions 2 and 3, including but not limited to:
Expressions of interest can be submitted via email only, via secretariat@cilc.nl, with the subject of the email ”Legal Services Proposal”. Applications submitted to other mail addresses will be excluded from consideration. All the applicants are welcomed to include a short explanatory note with the motivation, but required documents include:
CILC will choose from the pool of expressions of interests the law firm that fits the proposal best, in particular based on the below criteria. Only short-listed law firms will be contacted and invited for an (online) interview.