Joint Opinion on the Draft Amendments to Some Legislative Acts Concerning Prevention of and Fight Against Political Corruption of Ukraine
On 22 July 2015, Mr Yehor Soboliev, the Chairperson of the Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine sent a letter to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (hereinafter “OSCE/ODIHR”), in which he asked for a review of draft amendments to Some Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning Prevention of and Fight against Political Corruption (CDL-REF(2015)031), (hereinafter “the draft amendments”) to assess their compliance with international human rights standards. The draft amendments propose changes to seven different Ukrainian legal acts, namely the Code of Administrative Offences, the Criminal Code of Ukraine, the Law on the
Accounting Chamber, the Law on the Elections of the President of Ukraine (hereinafter “Presidential Election Law”), the Law on Political Parties of Ukraine (hereinafter “Political Parties Law”),the Law on Election of Members of Parliament of Ukraine (hereinafter “Parliamentary Elections Law”) and the Law on Prevention of Corruption (hereinafter “AntiCorruption Law”).
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