In accordance with a recent government decision in Moldova, and following the absorption of the National School Inspectorate and the National Council for Accreditation and Attestation, the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Professional Education (ANACIP) will henceforth be known as the National Council for Accreditation and Attestation National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education and Research (ANACEC), the successor of rights and obligations of the absorbed bodies. The ultimate aim of the reorganisation is to strengthen the work of the state institutions responsible for quality assurance in the educational field and to contribute to the development and quality assurance in the fields of education and research, as well as to ensure a national system for assessing these areas oriented towards international standards.