Public prosecution bill won't be submitted to parliament without EU experts' positive conclusions, says MP Pylypenko
Kyiv, May 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The bill on prosecutor's office in Ukraine, which is currently being developed, will not be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, without positive conclusions and reviews of European experts and institutions, deputy permanent member of the Verkhovna Rada delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Volodymyr Pylypenko, has said.
"Without positive conclusions of the European experts, without favorable reviews from the European institutions, the draft law on prosecutor's office in Ukraine will not be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada. We want to make sure that during registration of the bill we would be able to show the positive noted by the European experts. In order not to defend ourselves the provisions of the draft law, but to have the support of the Venice Commission and the Council of Europe's Directorate of Human Rights," he told a press conference hosted by Interfax-Ukraine.
According to the politician, a working group of experts from the Presidential Administration, representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office, and scientists who "literally every day try to come to an agreement and prepare an integral bill on the prosecutor's office in Ukraine" regularly holds its meetings.
Pylypenko noted that while elaborating the bill on the prosecutor's office the same algorithm as during the adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code would be applied.
"When the bill, which would satisfy all members of the working group, is elaborated it will pass the examination in the institutions of the Council of Europe - in the Directorate of Human Rights and in the Venice Commission," he said.
"I think that in the near future, in summer, as it is expected in the Council of Europe, the bill will be handed over to them for examination and study," Pylypenko said.