The bill suggest determine key legal organizational principles of the prosecutor’s office of Ukraine; the system of the prosecutor’s office; the status of prosecutors; the procedure of exercising prosecutor’s self-government; as well as the system and general procedure for maintaining activity of the prosecutor’s office. In particular, it is suggested establish a three-level system of prosecutor’s bodies – the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine; regional prosecutor’s offices and local prosecutor’s offices. Thereat, it is proposed to liquidate special prosecutor’s offices (transport, military, etc.).
Under the bill, “the prosecutor’s office of Ukraine is the single system, which, in the order stipulated by this Law, exercises functions established by the Constitution of Ukraine in order to protect human rights and freedoms, as well as general interests of the society and the state.”
The bill establishes main functions of the prosecutor’s office.
The document stipulates that “only functions provided in the Constitution of Ukraine can be imposed on the prosecutor’s office”.
The bill stipulates cancel functions of the prosecutor’s office pertaining to monitoring application and adherence to the laws (the so called “general monitoring”); introduce the special procedure for appointment and dismissal of prosecutors; and introduce the system of bodies of prosecutor’s self-government (the All-Ukrainian conference of the personnel of the prosecutor’s office and the Ukraine’s Prosecutor’s Council), etc.
The respective amendments are to be made to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes of Ukraine, to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Infringements, the Code of Administrative Proceedings, the laws “On State Protection of Courts’ Staff and Law-Enforcement Bodies”, “On the Court System and the Status of Judges”, etc.
The respective bill was registered under No. 3541.