“The two documents that the commission formally approved today provide important guidelines for solving key tasks for me: how to avoid causing irreversible harm to the anti-corruption reform by the Constitutional Court and how to reform the Constitutional Court itself systematically so that the current situation does not repeat itself,” Zelensky press quotes -service.
The Ukrainian leader instructed to carefully study the proposals of the Venice Commission and take them into account when preparing further steps to reform the judicial system.
Earlier, the Venice Commission called on Kiev to restore some of the provisions of the law on the prevention of corruption, canceled by the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
On October 27, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled that part of the provisions of the law "On Prevention of Corruption" did not comply with the country's fundamental law.
This also affected the criminal liability for inaccurate declaration of income by officials.
After that, Zelensky introduced a bill to parliament, according to which it is proposed to deprive the judges of the Constitutional Court of their powers and restore the law on declaration that they had canceled.