26 Feb, 2013

The leaders of the member states of the European Union (EU) met in Stockholm, Sweden in 2009 to discuss the future political progress in the area of justice, freedom and security. Despite the ever-present financial crisis, the meeting did produce an action plan, the Stockholm Programme (sp), that was meant to advance ‘people’s Europe’ into the new decade. Included in the action plan was a section concerning the protection of citizen’s rights within the information society.

12 Feb, 2013

The project is aimed at helping to build modern and efficient public administration system in Belarus and Ukraine by providing the partner institutions with independent expertise based on experience from Visegrad countries (V4).

28 Jan, 2013

Ukraine’s ratification of the “Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data” has meant the implementation of a number of new laws, including the law “On Personal Data Protection”, as well as other regulations.The subsequent implementation has been far from entirely successful.

23 Jan, 2013

Those who closely followed the activities of the new Parliament before the New Year had an opportunity to see how it steadily increased the number of new committees. Why? Maybe the MP’s were concerned about the quality legislation and wished to focus their energy on improvements? Or perhaps it was to adopt a system change within Ukrainian laws? Or perhaps some other noble goal?

22 Jan, 2013

There are ongoing problems in the relationship between the Ukrainian government and the citizens of Ukraine. Some of this is directly related to the actions of the government, but to blame the current administration for all the problems of the Ukrainian state would be a historic simplification. The inheritance of the history of modern Ukraine is a burden to borne by everyone living and working in Ukraine. This is not unique for Ukraine, for that matter. Every state is a sum of its historical parts. 

22 Jan, 2013

Compared with 2009 (before an implementation of judicial reform identified by the President Yanukovych) the number of such proceedings increased more than three times in 2012 and the number of judicial restraints increased four and a half times

17 Jan, 2013

There is currently an ongoing discussion on how to reform the Ukrainian justice system.These discussions are given expression in the Presidential Administration of Ukraine's Constitutional Assembly proposals for improvement of sections of the Constitution of Ukraine on justice.

12 Jan, 2013

Ukraine has been living with a new Criminal Procedure Code for little more than one month now. It took effect on November 20th last year. It is too early, in my opinion, to give a proper assessment of its effectiveness or ineffectiveness. We should wait until the first trials and their results.

09 Jan, 2013

The project is aimed at helping to build modern and efficient public administration system in Belarus and Ukraine by providing the partner institutions with independent expertise based on experience from Visegrad countries (V4). The project consists of the following stages:

08 Nov, 2012

1. Western Europe

Laws concerning administrative offenses in the "established democracies" of Europe are inherently diverse. Differences appear in the titles given to administrative offenses, as well as in the legal ownership of administrative offenses, the relationship between administrative offenses and criminal offenses, the characteristics of the subjects of responsibility, the subjective side of the relevant offenses and the consequences of committing such violations. The laws also differ in the manner in which they have been established and the way specific laws address responsibility for administrative offenses.