uL stration laws dealing with state administration in Albania Table 3. Lustration laws dealing also with public administration Purpose Ranking 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”; The primary not achieved its intended purposes purpose of the law was prevention, or, removal of who served as a leader in the political structures of the Party of Labor, etc., to be part of Albanian political life or state apparatus. While the prevention, or, removal of who served as a leader in the political structures of the Party of Labor, etc., to be part of Albanian state administration was not an aim itself. Reasons Reasons behind its designation: The verifying the Public Administration Figures was not an aim itself; the passive role is given by law to the Commission of Verifying the Public Figures in initiating a verification process … after a request is made … So, the Commission had no the competence to initiate verification of public figures ex officio. the voluntary and not compulsory right of Commission of Verifying the Public Figures, after a request is made, to do verification, investigation, or, to call for clarification the interested people, experts, and so further. Reasons behind its implementation: political pressure, lack of documentation/ archives of ex- Sigurimi, lack of recognition of the law by the staff – lack of experience, expertise, training of the staff how to implement the law; lack of explanatory acts about the law; lack of infrastructure: offices, photocopy, writing machines, computers, paper, ink; lack of administrative staff; frequent movements in public administration; lack of collaboration from central public administration institution side -the refusal of lists of employees to the commission by them; the working of Bezhani in missing of 4 members of the commission. 93