Member of the Qualification Chamber of the Commission Mr. Andrii Vasylenko took part in the session of the Steering Committee for implementation of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine
On June 12, 2017, the session of the Steering Committee for implementation of Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
The event was aimed to discuss the current results of the implementation of the Action Plan of the Council of Europe for Ukraine for 2015-2017 and to identify the priority areas of the Action Plan for the next three years.
The session was opened by Mr. Serhii Kyslytsya, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and Ms. Verena Taylor, Director Office of the Directorate General of Programmes Council of Europe. Further discussion was split into topics, during which the representatives of the CoE and the Ukrainian authorities were able to make a speech.
The High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine was represented by Mr. Andrii Vasylenko, Member of the Qualification Chamber of the Commission. He told about the results of the Commission’s activity in implementing the Action Plan of the Council of Europe for Ukraine for 2015-2017 and thanked for the expert support of the Commission in the initial qualification assessment of judges and the competition for occupying a position of a judge of cassation courts within the Supreme Court, received within the framework of cooperation between the Commission and the CoE Project “Support to the implementation of the judicial reform in Ukraine”.
We would like to remind that on January 21, 2015, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe approved the Action Plan of the Council of Europe for Ukraine for 2015-2017, which was developed by the CoE together with the authorities of Ukraine. The document defines the main areas of work within which the Council of Europe will support Ukraine: constitutional reform and functioning of democratic institutions; reform of the judiciary; reform of the criminal justice and law enforcement agencies; strengthening democratic governance and local self-government reform, decentralization in particular; combating economic crime and corruption; human rights protection.
Among the CoE partners within the framework of the Action Plan, there are executive and judicial authorities, prosecutor`s offices and advocacy, profile committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and civil society.
