Since 2019, EUAM has been providing support to the ‘Working Group for the Development of the Criminal Law’ which was established by the President of Ukraine within the Commission on Legal Reform.
It hampers combating of these crimes by Ukrainian authorities as well as international cooperation in this area. Many definitions of crimes are not compatible with definitions of crime in the EU countries. Ukraine is the first country in Europe by the number of life prisoners without a realistic prospect of release in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights. Many provisions of the country’s main document, which defines crime and sets out penalties, do not comply with international standards of criminal law.ĭue to Ukrainian current criminal law policy, the average Ukraine’s incarceration rate per capita is around 140 per 100,000, while in UE it is around 90 individuals per 100,000. Ukraine’s Criminal Code was adopted 19 years ago and since then has been inconsistently amended over 1000 times. The two-day online event acted as a professional platform for discussing reform of the Ukrainian Criminal Code into progressive and modern legal norm in line with international and EU standards.
Reforming Ukraine’s Criminal Code was on top of the agenda of an international conference co-organised this week by the EU Advisory Mission (EUAM) and academia, civil society and legal reform experts.
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