07 June 2018, 15:00
On anticorruption court
Opening the session, the Chairman reminded that parliamentarians had for a couple of days been considering amendments to the bill No.7440 on a supreme anticorruption court. Fifty-five ones remained to be reviewed.
The bill voting shall take place at 11:30 till noon.
After considering all the amendments, the Chairman informed that the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman were present at the plenary session.
A.Parubiy also notified those present of a successful completion of the negotiations with the IMF concerning the draft law No. 7440. "We were able to find a formula that fully complies with the recommendations of the Venice Commission," he explained.
The presiding officer gave the floor to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, who said there was no doubt the Parliament would do its utmost to undertake and succeed in passing the court law.
The Chairman gave the floor to representatives of parliamentary factions and groups who then made their announcements, statements, reports, and proposals.
The heads of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, the People’s Party and the Vidrodzhennia (“Revival”) Party said they would support the bill in dispute, while the Opposition Bloc’s whip refused the draft law stating it was against Ukraine’s constitution.
Finally, the Chairman put the bill No.7440 to the
vote for its adoption in the second reading and in tote. The bill was passed by the 315 votes.
A.Parubiy gave the floor to the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The President of Ukraine thanked parliamentarians for the law adopted, thereby signalling that formation of the Ukraine’s anti-corruption structure has finally been completed up.
On external auditor for NABU
The presiding officer then announced consideration of a parliamentary candidacy for the external audit commission established to assess the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine’s (NABU) performance. Volodymyr Vasylenko was elected and then appointed to the above post by 289 ayes.On diplomatic service
Parliamentarians have re-examined the law of Ukraine "On Diplomatic Service" under the bill No. 7322 with the presidential proposals attached. The bill was finally passed together with the proposals by 226 ayes.
On Danyliuk’s severance motion
Parliamentarians have considered the Prime Minister’s motion on dismissal of the Minister of Finance Oleksandr Danyliuk. By 254 ayes the minister was ousted from the office.
The Output of the Session
None.
On Supreme Anticorruption Court: Draft bill No.7440
The legislative act defines organizational principles and procedures of the court, special requirements to judges of the court and guarantees for their activities, as well as peculiarities of a vacancy competition for position of a judge at the Supreme Anticorruption Court.
By law, the body is designated to be a standing supreme specialized court within the Ukrainian judicial system designed to administer justice in accordance with the legally established principles and procedures in order to protect Person, Society and State from corruption and related crimes, and for conducting a judicial control over pre-trial investigations of these crimes, observance of the rights, freedoms and interests of individuals under criminal proceedings.
The law provides the court a nationwide jurisdiction.
The court is to analyze judicial statistics, study and summarize judicial practice in criminal proceedings assigned to its jurisdiction and to transmit the generalization results to the Supreme Court providing it with proposals related to activities of the Supreme Anticorruption Court, the special requirements to the judges and the guarantees for their activities, and is also to make them public on its official website.
The law establishes a range of special requirements for a judge of the Supreme Anticorruption Court, requirements for a vacancy competition for the post of a judge at the Supreme Anticorruption Court.As per the law, the Public Council of International Experts exercises its responsibilities through seven members to be appointed by the High Qualifications Commission of Judges of Ukraine solely based on proposals from those international organizations that cooperate with Ukraine in preventing and counteracting corruption in accordance with Ukraine’s international treaties.
At least two postulants are allowed to be nominated to sit on the council by each of the said international organizations.
The above high commission is only entitled to undertake on the nominees once the number of the candidates is twice as big as the chairs vacant there at the least.
The council nominees may only be appointed at an open sitting of the High Qualifications Commission of Judges of Ukraine.
Members of the council may be citizens of Ukraine or foreigners with an impeccable business reputation, with high professional skills and moral qualities, of public esteem, weight and standing, having at least a five-year experience in investigations and procedural (law) guidance, or administration of justice in corruption-related cases, including outside Ukraine.
Members of the council are to be appointed for a term of two years and cannot be re-appointed again.
The law defines peculiarities of the court judges’ status, additional security guarantees for them, an integrity monitoring procedure of the judges, and conditions for improving their professional competence.
The law appropriately amended the Criminal Code of Ukraine, the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses, the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Supreme Council of Justice".
On diplomatic service: Draft bill No.7322
The bill was finally passed including the presidential proposals attached.
On dismissal of minister: Draft resolution No.8433
The Parliament has ousted the Minister of Finance Oleksandr Danyliuk from his office.
The presiding officer closed the meeting.