The feedback from the members of the Venice Commission, in General, has approved the Ukrainian Law on lustration, the document shall apply to a very broad range of people and judges.
"The appropriate conclusion is supported at the meeting of the European Commission for democracy through law (Venice Commission). This was done on June 19, after a number of months of study of the law " about the cleansing power ", - informs RIA "news" referring to the newspaper " Ukrainian truth ".
review of the Commission members, disqualification of certain individuals due to the fact that they occupied the position during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych in 2010-2014 or during the events on Maidan at the turn of 2013-2014, a priori, does not contradict international standards, provided that the story is about positions in the agencies responsible for significant human rights violations and perpetrators of serious cases of negligence. Thus, the Venice Commission stresses that test a wide range of people has the opportunity to be a significant bureaucratic burden, but has the Ukrainian government the right to decide which posts played a significant role in the abuse of power Under the regime of Yanukovych in 2010-2014 or during the events on Maidan at the end of 2013 - early 2014. Remember, lustration of power - one of the main demands of the Maidan activists in February 2014 has formulated criteria for the selection of members of the " government of national trust ". In early October, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the Law " about the cleansing power ", September 16, from 3 attempts adopted by the Verkhovna Rada. The law entered into force on 16 October. The document provides for the dismissal of bureaucrats who held senior positions in the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych (at the same time to send in the resignation will not be able those currently working in elected positions). According to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, under the act is subject to 1 million different kinds of bureaucrats. The Ukrainian Prime Minister also said that for the lustration of public officials, the judiciary and prosecutors will take two years.

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