With the entry into force of the amendments and additions made by Law 66/2017,
we are going to affirm that the paradigm regarding the capacity of the natural person has been
changed. Thus, at present we are no longer in the presence of natural persons lacking exercise
capacity, being granted a high level of protection of the natural person. The need for such
changes was also dictated by the accession of the Republic of Moldova to the UN Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of December 13, 2006. In principle, the texts of the
UN Convention impose a paradigm shift: from the lack of exercise capacity to the granting of a
capacity as wide as possible for people with disabilities. In particular, the Convention calls on
the signatory States to replace the decision-making substitution regime with a decisionmaking
support regime.
