Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy has announced his intention on Tuesday, February 6, to include in the agenda of the parliament a draft law on the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court and hopes for its speedy consideration.

"An extremely important law in this session is the Law on Anticorruption Court, which is in fact the last global law on the reform of the judicial system. And on the first day tomorrow, I will recommend including it on the agenda and instructing the committee to consider it urgently so that we as soon as possible would be able to complete the formation of the Anti-Corruption Court, first at the legislative level, and then in execution," Parubiy said in a joint briefing with Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman in Kyiv on Monday.

He also said that certain amendments would be made between the first and second reading in order to take into account the recommendations of the Venice Commission.

The eighth session of the Verkhovna Rada of the eighth convocation will start its work on February 6.

As reported, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at its meeting on December 21, 2017, withdrew the bill on anti-corruption courts (No. 6011) drafted by parliamentarians. On the same day, a number of experts presented to President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko the bill "On the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court", which takes into account the recommendations of the OSCE experts and the conclusions of the Venice Commission. On December 22, 2017 it was registered with the Verkhovna Rada, as introduced by Poroshenko and defined as urgent, but was never put on the agenda. In addition, several alternative draft laws were registered in the parliament.

In January 2018, representative of the president in the parliament, Iryna Lutsenko, said that the bill on the Anticorruption Court would change after the first reading in the Verkhovna Rada, it will take into account the recommendations of the Venice Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and, according to optimistic forecasts, the court will be able to start work in six months.

The IMF said that they expect a correction of the bill on the Anti-Corruption Court during its preparation for the second reading and the law on pension reform. The Fund noted that the creation of the Anti-Corruption Court is one of the key requirements of the program of cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF.