The Committee on the Rule of Law and Justice recommends that the Parliament should reject the draft law on amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine (re guarantying citizens’ right to address international human rights protection organizations)

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
27 September 2013, 14:26

The bill (Reg. No. 2306) suggests make amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, the Code of Administrative Proceedings, the Economic Procedure Code, the Civil Procedure Code and the Law “On the Court System and the Status of Judges”, under which the fact of breach of international obligations, when processing the case in the court, that was determined by the respective UN Committees is a separate reason for reconsideration of courts’ judgments by the Supreme Court of Ukraine.    

It was noted that the bill does not consider the fact that decisions of these international organizations are not court acts, since the respective international organizations are not court institutions.

People’s deputies believe that decisions taken by these international organizations can hardly be “equaled” to the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, recognition and mandatory execution of which is provided by article 46 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.