uL stration laws dealing with state administration in Albania “The law aims to allow for every interested to be informed about ex Sigurimi files.” 48 While experts of OSCE Presence in Tirana during discussions of this law has declared: “This project law has foreseen no obligatory lustration, but allow the possibility to ask information about candidates during their appointment in different institutions.”49 As per continuing, for fulfilling the purpose of this law was foreseen the establishment of a commission, i.e., Files Authority. According to official information provided by experts of Files Authority: “It results for 2017 no requests were submitted by the institutions for the verification of candidates to be nominated or promoted according to Article 29/1/b - TMC members in the state administration and equivalent positions; for 2018, 292 candidates have been verified, in order to be appointed or promoted according to article 29/1/b - TMC members in state administration and equivalent positions, from which for 62 requests are submitted by the Department of Public Administration, while 230 requests are submitted by Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. After the process of verification carried out resulted to have data in ex-Security documents for 6 candidates – they were 6 candidates verified according to the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs list; for 2019, in the first quarter, 16 candidates have been verified in order to be appointed or promoted according to article 29/1/b – TMC members in the state administration and equivalent positions. After the process of verification carried out resulted to have no data in ex-Security documents for 16 candidates.”50 It results, the 6 candidates which resulted to have data in ex-Security documents were not hired, appointed or promoted by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.51 To sum up, in terms of lustration it’s difficult to truly say if this law will achieve its purpose to prevent/ remove who served as a leader in the political structures of the Party of Labor, etc., to be part of Albanian state administration. Table 2. Ranking Law achieved their purposes N/A partially achieved their purposes law nr.45 / 2015, dated 30.04.2015 “On the Right to Information on the documents of the ex-state security directorate of state security directorate of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania” not achieved their purposes Law nr. 8043, dated 30 November 1995, “On the Control of the Moral Figure of Officials and Other Persons Connected with the Protection of the Democratic State���; Law nr. 10034, dated 22.12.2008 “On the purity of the image of high officials of the public administration and the appointees” 48. 49. 50. 51. Ibid. Report of the Parliamentary Commission of Legal Issues, Public Administration, and Human Rights, dated 04.03.2015, page 3. Ibid. Official information provided by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, letter nr. 12446/1, dated 11.09.2019. 89