On April 4-5, with the support of the Germany’s Institute for European Politics and the parliamentary expert group on European integration, in the Committee on European Integration held was a training workshop entitled "Adaptation of legislation to the EU acquis." In their speeches, the speakers, namely head of the project "Capacity-building for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine" and a representative of the Ministry of Finance of Bosnia and Herzegovina familiarized the workshop participants with the basic EU legislative acts, terminology and methodology for implementation of the Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA).
The event was attended by employees of secretariats of the Committees on European Integration, Foreign Affairs, Legal Policy and Justice, Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety, Taxation and Customs Policy, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship, Financial Policy and Banking, Agrarian Policy and Land Relations, as well as employees of the Chief Judicial Office and the Chief Scientific Experts Office.
During the training workshop, employees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat were able to theoretically and practically learn about the components of the process of adaptation of Ukraine’s legislation to the EU laws through the example of the Directive 98/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 on consumer protection in the indication of the prices of products offered to consumers, the Directive 2001/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products, etc.
During the training workshop, its participants learned about the stages of approximation of legislative harmonization, namely elaboration of draft laws, their analysis, transposition, fulfillment and implementation.
Training workshop participants through the example of the Directive 2006/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits, identified main approximation methods such as gradual transposition; detailed transposition, study of all definitions, formulas of parts; recommended transposition, in which the references to other legislative acts are determined.
In general, during the two-day training workshop, the speakers paid considerable attention to legal obligations and mechanisms of the approximation of the legislation to the acquis of the European Union, implementation and fulfillment of obligations under the Association Agreement.
The training program will be continued on April 27-28, 2016.