The Venice Commission will visit in February, Ukraine

Authorized by the Venice Commission will visit in mid-February Ukraine, said Last news employee of the Commission.

according to him, the Commission delegation will arrive in the country to study the situation with the legislative act of lustration.

This law, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed in October 2014. For subject 1 million bureaucrats, public servants, employees of the police organization. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation considered that the law on lustration in fact legitimize political persecution in Ukraine.

in mid-December last year, the Venice Commission issued an opinion about the Ukrainian law. In it She criticized its current version, noting that " lustration procedures must be designed and carried out only by legal means, in Accordance with the Constitution and taking into account European standards on the rule of law and respect for human rights ". It welcomed the General principles of the law on lustration, but noted that the law itself does not conform to these principles. So experts of the Commission recalled that the lustration should have a clear time frame. The existing timeframe of law - from the period of Soviet Communist regime before the February events on Maidan 2014 " - considered doubtful.

"using lustration measures a relatively recent period, during which Mr. (Viktor) Yanukovych President of Ukraine, ultimately, would put into question the functioning of the current constitutional and legal framework of Ukraine as a democratic country," was considered by the Venice Commission.

The Ukrainian side said that they are ready to work with the Committee on legislation.

Authorized Commission visited Ukraine last week.


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