Today, January 18, the plenary session and the session of the Grand Chamber of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine were held.
At the in-camera part of the plenary session, the Grand Chamber proceeded with deliberation of the case upon the constitutional petition of 53 People’s Deputies of Ukraine concerning the compliance of the Law of Ukraine “On Introducing Amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Counteracting the Abuse of the Rights of People's Deputies of Ukraine in the Legislative Procedure” with the Constitution of Ukraine. Further deliberation of this case will take place at one of the forthcoming plenary sessions of the Grand Chamber of the Court.
The Grand Chamber, at its session, adopted 76 rulings to extend until February 18, 2022, the term of adopting the rulings of the boards of judges of the Court to initiate or refuse to initiate constitutional proceedings in cases upon the constitutional petitions of the Supreme Court and 99 People's Deputies of Ukraine, the constitutional appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and constitutional complaints of the citizens.
The same day, the session of the First Board of Judges of the First Senate was held at which the issue on initiating constitutional proceedings in the was considered. In particular:
In the case upon the constitution complaint of Vitalii Kovbasiuk on conformity of specific provisions of Article 2 of the Law of Ukraine “On Measures on Legislative Ensuring the Pension System Reform“ of 8 July 2011 No.3668–VI, the first sentence of Article 86.15.6 of the Law of Ukraine “On Prosecution Office“ of 14 October 2014 No. 1697–VII to the Constitution of Ukraine a Ruling was adopted to initiate the constitutional proceedings.
Consideration of the issue on initiating constitutional proceedings in the case upon the constitutional complaint of Iryna Tkachova on conformity of the provisions of sub-clause 2 of clause 1, paragraph 10 of sub-clause 41 of clause 21 of Section І, clause 6,
paragraph one of clause 7, sub-clause 1 of clause 19 Section ІІ “Final and Transitional Provisions“ of the Law of Ukraine “On Amending some Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Priority Measures on Reforming the Prosecution Bodies“ to the Constitution of Ukraine will be continued at one of the forthcoming sessions.
Also, 3 rulings to refuse to initiate constitutional proceedings in the cases (final) were adopted upon the constitutional complains of Mykyta Andrieiev on conformity of the provisions of Article 19.6.1 of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education“ to the Constitution of Ukraine; Kostiantyn Rybka on conformity of paragraph 5 of the Note to Article 1521, Article 2791.5, paragraph three of Article
2793.1 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offences to the Constitution of Ukraine; Serhii Hrebenchuk and Olena Nedashlovska on conformity of the rule of Article 101.1 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Capital of Ukraine – the Hero-City of Kyiv “ to the Constitution of Ukraine.
