The article explores the national normative framework in the Republic of Moldova for the field of school competence assessment in primary education. The essence of the content is given by the social-economic changes in the Republic of Moldova over the last decades, which have imposed radical changes in the education system, by modifying the school's value guidelines, by the conceptual design of new educational policy documents: The Republic of Moldova’s Education Code, Educational Standards, National Curriculum, Framework Plan, Methodology on Organizing Criteria Assessment through Descriptors in Primary Education etc. It is emphasized that promoting the teaching of skills, matching education of the national system with the time requirements, has made the revision of the legislative framework and the recent educational policy documents a direct condition. Knowledge and use of the legal and normative framework by educational actors ensure that the process of skills assessment at primary education level is effective and aligned with European and international best practices. Used methods: scientific documentation, comparison, interpretation, analysis, synthesis, genera-lization, abstraction.