EC Hopes To Release Justice Report On Romania Next Week

"It won't be this week but we expect to adopt the latest interim reports MCV for Romania and Bulgaria during the week from 22 to 26," Gray said.

He reminded interim reports are factual and they look at the progress made in the last six months, without giving political assessments.

"Those (political assessments -e.n.) will come in the annual report that we give in the summer," Gray said.

Romania, which joined the European Union in 2007 together with Bulgaria, was imposed a cooperation and verification mechanism (MCV) in the justice sector. Under the mechanism, the country must consolidate transparency and efficiency in the act of justice, report and monitor the impact of its new criminal and civil procedure codes, set up an integrity agency to screen officials' wealth and find possible cases of incompatibility with public office and tackle corruption.

The European Commission publishes an interim report on the country's progress usually in February, followed by a final report in summer.

Romanian Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu said earlier Monday the Commission is expected to release its interim report on progress in Romania's justice sector "these days".

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